CreditAgreement BETWEEN RAYCOMMEDIA, INC. –and – FRANKLYINC. August31, 2016

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Credit Agreement

 

BETWEEN

 

RAYCOM MEDIA, INC.

 

– and –

 

FRANKLY INC.

 

August 31, 2016

 

 
 

 

table of content 

 

 

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Article 1 INTERPRETATION 1
1.1   Definitions 1
1.2   Certain Rules of Interpretation 19
1.3   Governing Law 20
1.4   Entire Agreement 20
1.5   Business Day 20
1.6   Conflicts 20
1.7   Guaranteed Amounts 21
1.8   Accounting Changes 21
1.9   Schedules and Exhibits 21
   
Article 2 CREDIT FACILITy 22
2.1   Facility 22
2.2   Purpose 22
2.3   Drawdowns—Notices and Limitations 23
2.4   Lender’s Records 23
   
Article 3 CALCULATION OF INTEREST, FEES AND EXPENSES 23
3.1   Calculation and Payment of Interest 23
3.2   Expenses 24
3.3   General Provisions Regarding Interest 24
3.4   Maximum Return 24
   
Article 4 REDUCTION OF COMMITMENT AND REPAYMENT 25
4.1   Optional Repayment of Loans under the Facility 25
4.2   Repayment of Facility 26
4.3   Other Mandatory Repayments 26
4.4   Payments—General 27
   
Article 5 INDEMNITIES 27
5.1   General Indemnity 27
5.2   Environmental Indemnity 28
   
Article 6 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT 28
6.1   Conditions Precedent to the Initial Drawdown 28
6.2   Conditions Precedent to all Loans 31
6.3   Waiver of a Condition Precedent 32
   
Article 7 SECURITY DOCUMENTS 32
7.1   Security Documents 32
7.2   Registration of Security Documents 34
7.3   Dealing With Security Documents 34
7.4   Permitted Liens 34
   
Article 8 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES 35
8.1   Representations and Warranties 35

 

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8.2   Repetition of Representations and Warranties 41
8.3   Survival of Representations and Warranties 41
   
Article 9 COVENANTS 41
9.1   Positive Covenants 41
9.2   Financial Covenants 47
9.3   Negative Covenants 48
   
Article 10 EVENTS OF DEFAULT 50
10.1   Events of Default 50
10.2   Acceleration and Remedies 53
10.3   Application of Proceeds of Realization 54
10.4   Waivers 54
10.5   Non-Merger 55
10.6   Lender May Perform Covenants 55
10.7   Grant of Licence 55
   
Article 11 General 55
11.1   Time of Essence 55
11.2   Notices 55
11.3   Severability 56
11.4   Submission to Jurisdiction 57
11.5   Amendment and Waiver 57
11.6   Further Assurances 57
11.7   Assignment 58
11.8   Enurement 58
11.9   Counterparts and Electronic Delivery 58
11.10   Conduct of Parties 58
11.11   Remedies Cumulative 58
11.12   Survival 58
11.13   Telephone Instructions 59
11.14   Judgment Currency 59
11.15   No Contra Proferentem 59
11.16   Consent to Disclosure of Information 60

 

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Credit Agreement

 

THIS AGREEMENT is dated as of August 31, 2016

 

BETWEEN:

 

RAYCOM MEDIA, INC., as Lender

 

- and –

 

FRANKLY INC., as Borrower

 

CONTEXT

 

A.The Lender has agreed to provide the Facility to the Borrower on the terms set out in this Agreement.
   
B.The Borrower and the Guarantors have agreed to execute and deliver to the Lender the Loan Documents to which they are a party, and to comply with the other terms set out in this Agreement.

 

THEREFORE, the Parties agree as follows:

 

Article 1
INTERPRETATION

 

1.1Definitions

 

In this Agreement, in addition to terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement, the following terms have the following meanings:

 

1.1.1Accounting Changes” means (i) changes in accounting principles of IFRS as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board (or successor thereto or any agency with similar functions); or (ii) (x) changes in the application of such accounting principles adopted; or (y) the adoption of different accounting principles and standards by the Borrower and in each case concurred in by the Borrower’s independent chartered accountants and the Lender.

 

1.1.2Acquisition” means any transaction, or any series of related transactions, by which any Person, directly or indirectly, by means of a takeover bid, tender offer, amalgamation, merger, purchase of Property or otherwise:

 

1.1.2.1acquires any business, line of business or business unit of any other Person;

 

1.1.2.2acquires all or substantially all of the Property of any other Person;

 

 

1.1.2.3acquires, or acquires Control of, Equity Securities of any other Person representing more than 50% of the ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other governing position, if the business affairs of that Person are managed by a board of directors or other governing body;

 

 
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1.1.2.4acquires, or acquires Control of, more than 50% of the ownership or economic interest in any other Person; or

 

1.1.2.5acquires Control of any other Person.
   
1.1.3Affiliate” means, with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified.

 

1.1.4Agreement” means this credit agreement between the Borrower and the Lender, including all Schedules and Exhibits, as it may be confirmed, amended, extended, supplemented or restated by written agreement between the Parties.

 

1.1.5Anti-Money Laundering Legislation” means the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (Canada) and other Applicable Laws relating to anti-money laundering, anti-terrorist financing, government sanctions and “know your client” matters, whether in Canada or elsewhere, together with any guidelines or orders under those laws.

 

1.1.6Applicable Law” means, at any time, and whether or not having the force of law:

 

1.1.6.1any domestic or foreign statute, law (including common and civil law), treaty, code, ordinance, rule, regulation, restriction or by-law;

 

1.1.6.2any judgment, order, writ, injunction, decision, ruling, decree or award issued or made by any Governmental Authority;

 

1.1.6.3any regulatory policy, practice, guideline or directive of any Governmental Authority; or

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1.1.6.4any other Authorization,

 

in each case binding on or affecting the Person referred to in the context in which the term is used or binding on or affecting the Property of that Person.

 

1.1.7“Applicable Period” is defined in Section 1.1.26.

 

1.1.8Arm’s Length” means arm’s length as that term is interpreted in connection with its use in the Income Tax Act.

 

1.1.9Asset Disposition” means, at any time, the direct or indirect sale, transfer, assignment, conveyance, lease or other disposition of any Property by any Person.

 

1.1.10Authorization” means any authorization, order, permit, approval, grant, licence, qualification, consent, exemption, waiver, right, franchise, privilege, certificate, judgment, writ, injunction, award, determination, direction, decree, by-law, rule or regulation of any Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over any Person, whether or not having the force of law.

 

1.1.11Borrower” means Frankly Inc., a continued incorporated under the laws of British Columbia, and its successors and permitted assigns.

 

1.1.12Borrower’s Obligations” means, at any time, all of the indebtedness, liabilities and obligations, absolute or contingent, direct or indirect, matured or not matured, liquidated or unliquidated, of the Borrower to the Lender arising under the Facility or created by reason of or relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, including all Loans and any unpaid interest on them, all fees due under this Agreement and all reasonable costs and expenses of the Lender, and any other sums payable by the Borrower to the Lender, under the Loan Documents.

 

 
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1.1.13Business Day” means any day excluding a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banking institutions are generally closed in Toronto, Ontario or New York, New York.

 

1.1.14“Capital Expenditure” means any expense classified and accounted for as a capital expenditure pursuant to IFRS.

 

1.1.15Capital Lease” means any lease of Property by a Person as lessee that is required by IFRS to be classified and accounted for as a capital lease on the balance sheet of that Person.

 

1.1.16Capital Lease Obligations” means, for any Person, as of the date of determination, the obligations of that Person to pay rent and other amounts under a Capital Lease.
1.1.17Closing Date” means August 31, 2016 or any other date agreed to in writing by the Lender and the Borrower.
1.1.18Commitment” means, at any time, the commitment of the Lender to make a Loan available under the Facility in the amount of $14,500,000, as that amount may be reduced, adjusted or amended at any time under the terms of this Agreement, including without limitation Section 2.1.3.
1.1.19Communication” means any notice, demand, request, consent, approval or other communication which is required or permitted by this Agreement to be given or made by a Party.
1.1.20Compliance Certificate” means a compliance certificate substantially in the form attached to this Agreement as Exhibit 9.1.1.4, to be executed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower and delivered to the Lender as set out in Section 9.1.1.4.
1.1.21Consolidated Basis” means, in relation to any Financial Statements or financial results of the Borrower (or any determination derived from them), the Financial Statements and financial results of the Borrower and the other Obligors, prepared and calculated on a consolidated basis all in accordance with IFRS.
1.1.22Constating Documents” means:
1.1.22.1

for a corporation, unlimited liability company, limited liability company or other body corporate, its articles of incorporation, amalgamation, arrangement or continuance or similar organizational documents, by-laws and any unanimous shareholder agreement or other shareholder agreement; 

 

 
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1.1.22.2for a partnership, limited liability partnership or limited partnership, its partnership declaration, partnership agreement or similar related organizational documents;

 

1.1.22.3for a trust, the declaration, indenture or agreement under which it is created and its affairs are governed, or similar related organizational documents; or

 

1.1.22.4for any other entity or relationship of entities, the documents and agreements by which they are created and organized.

 

1.1.23Control” means the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise, and “Controlled” has a corresponding meaning.
   
1.1.24Criminal Code” means the Criminal Code, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46.

 

1.1.25Current Liens” is defined in Section 6.1.1.13.

 

1.1.26“Current Year Excess Cash Flow Amount” means, with respect to any Fiscal Year, commencing the Fiscal Year ending December 31, 2017, and as of any date of determination during the period (the “Applicable Period”) commencing with the date of receipt by the Lender of the consolidated financial statements required by Section 9.1.1.1 for the Fiscal Year ending December 31, 2017, the amount of Excess Cash Flow (which shall not be less than zero) for such Fiscal Year as determined by the Borrower in good faith and supported by calculations of such Excess Cash Flow amount in form and substance satisfactory to the Lender. For avoidance of doubt, the Current Year Excess Cash Flow Amount shall be zero on any date that is not part of the Applicable Period and all references to the definition of Excess Cash Flow to “Fiscal Year” shall be deemed to refer to the Applicable Period.

 

1.1.27Debt” means, at any time, without duplication, and on a Consolidated Basis, the obligations of any Person that are considered as debt in accordance with IFRS, including:

 

1.1.27.1all indebtedness of that Person for money borrowed by or otherwise advanced to it for which the principal bears interest, including bankers’ acceptances, letters of credit or letters of guarantee and all indemnity and reimbursement obligations under them;

 

1.1.27.2all indebtedness of that Person for the deferred purchase price of Property or services;

 

1.1.27.3all indebtedness of that Person created or arising under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement with respect to Property acquired by that Person, including indebtedness under agreements that limit the rights and remedies of the seller or lender if default occurs to repossession or sale of that Property;

 

1.1.27.4all interest or other obligations of that Person that are capitalized;

 

1.1.27.5all Capital Lease Obligations of that Person;

 

1.1.27.6the aggregate amount at which any Equity Securities of that Person that are redeemable or retractable at the option of the holder may be redeemed or retracted for cash or other payment, provided that all conditions precedent for the redemption or retraction have been satisfied;

 

 
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1.1.27.7all other obligations of that Person upon which interest charges are customarily paid by that Person;
1.1.27.8all obligations arising from any right of recourse against that Person relating to any sale of accounts receivable to a Person that is not a Related Party, including in any securitization transaction;

 

1.1.27.9all obligations of that Person under any Guarantee; and

 

1.1.27.10all Debt of any other Person secured by (or for which a holder of that Debt has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on Property, including accounts and contract rights, owned by the first Person, whether or not that Person has assumed or become liable for the payment of the obligation, provided that the amount of that Debt will be deemed to be the lesser of the unpaid amount of that Debt or the fair market value of that Property.

 

1.1.28Default” means any event or condition that with the passage of any time specified, the giving of any notice or the satisfaction of any condition subsequent would constitute an Event of Default.

 

1.1.29Depreciation Expense” means, for any period, depreciation, amortization, depletion and other similar reductions to income of a Person for that period not involving any outlay of cash, all determined in accordance with IFRS.

 

1.1.30Distribution” means any payment by a Person:

 

1.1.30.1of any dividends or other distributions in cash on any of its Equity Securities;

 

1.1.30.2on account of, or for the purpose of setting apart any Property for, the purchase, redemption, retirement or other acquisition of any of the Equity Securities of that Person or any of its Subsidiaries or any warrants, options or rights to acquire any of those Equity Securities, or the making by that Person of any other distribution in cash relating to any of those Equity Securities;

 

1.1.30.3of any principal of, or interest or premium on or of, any Debt of that Person to a shareholder of that Person or to any other Person not at Arm’s Length to that Person or shareholder;

 

1.1.30.4of any:
1.1.30.4.1management, consulting or similar fee or any bonus payment or comparable payment;
   
1.1.30.4.2gift or other gratuity; or

 

1.1.30.4.3amounts for services rendered, Property leased or acquired, or for any other reason,

 

 
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in each case, to any Related Party or to any Person not at Arm’s Length to that Person; or

 

1.1.30.5

the setting aside of any cash or other Property to make any of the payments referred to above

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1.1.31Drawdown Date” means the Business Day specified as the date on which the Borrower is requesting that a Loan occur or on which it will occur pursuant to this Agreement.

 

1.1.32Adjusted EBITDA” means, for any period, the Net Income of a Person on a consolidated basis for that period, plus:

 

1.1.32.1without duplication, but only to the extent any of those amounts were deducted in determining the Net Income for that period:

 

1.1.32.1.1the Interest Expense of that Person for that period;

 

1.1.32.1.2the Income Tax Expense of that Person for that period;

 

1.1.32.1.3the Depreciation Expense of that Person for that period;

 

1.1.32.1.4the actual amortization expenses of that Person for that period; and

 

1.1.32.1.5extraordinary and non-recurring losses of that Person for that period; and

 

1.1.32.1.6any non-cash equity based compensation; less

 

1.1.32.2without duplication, but only to the extent any of those amounts were added in determining Net Income for that period, extraordinary and non-recurring gains of that Person for that period.

 

1.1.33Environmental Activity” means any past, present or future activity, event or circumstance in respect of any Hazardous Materials, including their storage, use, holding, collection, purchase, accumulation, assessment, generation, manufacture, construction, processing, treatment, stabilization, disposition, handling or transportation, or their Release, escape, leaching, dispersal or migration into or movement through the Natural Environment.

 

1.1.34Environmental Laws” means, at any time, all Applicable Laws relating to Hazardous Materials, Environmental Activity and to the protection and regulation of the Natural Environment, or to human health and safety as it relates to Environmental Activity or the Natural Environment.

 

1.1.35Environmental Liabilities” means all Losses of any kind suffered by or against any Person or its business or Property, including or as a result of any order, investigation or action by any Governmental Authority, arising from or with respect to any one or more of the following:

 

 
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1.1.35.1the Release, threat of Release or presence of any Hazardous Materials, affecting any Property, whether or not originating or emanating from a Person’s Property or any contiguous Real Property or immovable Property, including any loss of value of any Property as a result of that Release, threat of Release or presence of any Hazardous Materials;

 

1.1.35.2the Release of any Hazardous Materials owned by, or under the charge, management or Control of, that Person, or any assignor of that Person;

 

1.1.35.3liability incurred under any Environmental Laws for any costs incurred by any Governmental Authority or any other Person, or for damages from injury to, destruction of, or loss of natural resources in relation to, a Person’s Property or related Property, including the reasonable costs of assessing that injury, destruction or loss; and

 

1.1.35.4liability for personal injury or Property damage arising in connection with breach of any Environmental Laws, including by reason of any civil law offences or quasi-criminal offences or under any statutory or common law tort or similar theory, including damages assessed for the maintenance of a public or private nuisance or for the carrying on of a dangerous activity at, near, or with respect to a Person’s Property or elsewhere.

 

1.1.36Equity Incentive Plan” means the Borrower’s Stock Option and RSU Plan, as it exists as of the date hereof.

 

1.1.37Equity Securities” means, at any time, all shares or stock of, units of interest in, or participations or rights in, any Person’s capital (or other equivalents), whether voting or non-voting, including any interest in a partnership, limited partnership or other similar Person and any beneficial interest in a trust, and all rights, warrants, debt securities, options or other rights exchangeable for or convertible into any of the equity securities and related interests listed above.

 

1.1.38Event of Default” is defined in Section 10.1.

 

1.1.39Excess Cash Flow” means EBITDA less Interest Expense paid in cash for any Fiscal Year, aggregate tax expenses of the Borrower to the extent paid in cash during such Fiscal Year, Capital Expenditures to the extent paid in cash during such Fiscal Year, the aggregate of all scheduled payments of principal on Debt (other than mandatory prepayments of Loans) made in cash by the Borrower during such Fiscal Year, but only to the extent that such payments or repayments by their terms cannot be reborrowed or redrawn.

 

1.1.40Facility” means the non-revolving credit facility in the initial maximum principal amount of US$14,500,000, made available by the Lender to the Borrower under this Agreement and described in Section 2.1.

 

1.1.41Financial Statements” means a balance sheet, statement of income and retained earnings, statement of cash flow and any other statements required by IFRS, together with all schedules and notes to them.

 

1.1.42Fiscal Quarter” means, relating to any Person, the fiscal quarter of that Person.

 

1.1.43Fiscal Year” means, relating to any Person, the fiscal year of that Person.

 

 
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1.1.44Governmental Authority” means:

 

1.1.44.1any federal, provincial, state, local, municipal, regional, territorial, aboriginal, or other government, governmental or public department, branch, ministry, or court, domestic or foreign, including any district, agency, commission, board, arbitration panel or authority and any subdivision of any of them exercising or entitled to exercise any administrative, executive, judicial, ministerial, prerogative, legislative, regulatory, or taxing authority or power of any nature; and

 

1.1.44.2any quasi-governmental or private body exercising any regulatory, expropriation or taxing authority under or for the account of any of them, and any subdivision of any of them.

 

1.1.45Guarantee” means any absolute or contingent liability of any Person under any guarantee, agreement, endorsement (other than for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business), discount with recourse or other obligation to pay, purchase, repurchase or otherwise be or become liable or obligated upon any Debt of any other Person, and including any absolute or contingent obligations to:

 

1.1.45.1advance or supply funds for the payment or purchase of any Debt of any other Person;
   
1.1.45.2purchase, sell or lease (as lessee or lessor) any Property, services, materials or supplies primarily for the purpose of enabling any other Person to pay its Debt or to assure the holder of it against loss relating to payment of that Debt; or
   
1.1.45.3indemnify or hold harmless any other Person from or against any losses, liabilities or damages, in circumstances intended to enable that other Person to incur or pay any of its Debt or to comply with any agreement relating to it or otherwise to assure or protect creditors against loss relating to that Debt.
   
1.1.46Guaranteed Obligations” means all indebtedness, liabilities and obligations, absolute or contingent, direct or indirect, matured or not matured, liquidated or unliquidated, of the Guarantors and each of them to the Lender under the Guarantee granted by each Guarantor to the Lender at any time.
   
1.1.47Guarantors” means, collectively:
   
1.1.47.1Frankly Co. and Frankly Media LLC;

 

1.1.47.2each present or future Subsidiary of the Borrower; and

 

1.1.47.3each other Person who at any time grants a Guarantee of the Borrower’s Obligations to the Lender, in form and substance satisfactory to the Lender,

 

and “Guarantor” means any one of them.

 

1.1.48Hazardous Materials” means any substance that when Released into the Natural Environment creates a material risk of causing material harm or degradation, immediately or at some future time, to the Natural Environment, or any ascertainable risk to human health or safety, including any pollutant, contaminant, waste, hazardous waste, dangerous goods (as defined by applicable Environmental Laws), asbestos and polychlorinated biphenyls.

 

 
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1.1.49IFRS” means the International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board.

 

1.1.50Income Tax Act” means the Income Tax Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.).

 

1.1.51Income Tax Expense” means, with respect to any period, the aggregate of all Taxes on the income or capital of a Person, determined in accordance with IFRS, for that period.

 

1.1.52Indemnified Party” is defined in Section 5.1.

 

1.1.53Insolvency Law” means the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. B-3, the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-36, the Winding-up and Restructuring Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. W-11, and any other laws relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, compromise of debts or similar laws of any jurisdiction affecting creditors’ rights generally.

 

1.1.54Insurance” is defined in Section 9.1.14.1.

 

1.1.55Intellectual Property” means trade-marks and trade-mark applications, trade names, certification marks, patents and patent applications, copyrights, domain names, industrial designs, trade secrets, know-how, formulae, processes, inventions, technical expertise, research data and other similar property, all associated registrations and applications for registration, and all associated rights, including moral rights.

 

1.1.56Intellectual Property Rights” is defined in Section 8.1.17.

 

1.1.57“Interest Coverage Ratio” means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (a) Adjusted EBITDA for the then applicable Reference Period to (b) Interest Expense for the then applicable Reference Period.

 

1.1.58Interest Expense” means, with respect to any Reference Period and on a consolidated basis, the aggregate amount of interest and other financing charges incurred by a Person, determined in accordance with, and characterized under, IFRS as interest, during that period with respect to Debt (including, without duplication, interest, capitalized interest, discount and financing fees, unused commitment fees, commissions, discounts, costs related to factoring or securitizing accounts receivable and other fees and charges payable with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances, standby fees and the interest component of Capital Lease Obligations and PMSI Obligations).

 

1.1.59Interest Payment Date” means, the first Business Day of each month.

 

1.1.60Investment” means:

 

1.1.60.1any direct or indirect purchase or other acquisition by any Investor of Equity Securities, or a beneficial interest in them, of any other Person that does not otherwise constitute an Acquisition, including any exchange of Equity Securities for indebtedness;

 

1.1.60.2any direct or indirect loan, advance (other than Loans to employees for moving and travel expenses, drawing accounts and similar expenditures in the ordinary course of business) or capital contribution (by way of cash or Property) by any Investor to any other Person, including all indebtedness and accounts receivable owing to the Investor from that other Person that did not arise from sales or services rendered to that other Person in the ordinary course of the Investor’s business; or

 

 
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1.1.60.3any direct or indirect purchase or other acquisition by any Investor of bonds, notes, debentures or other debt securities of any other Person.

 

1.1.61Investor” means any Person who makes an Investment.

 

1.1.62Judgment Conversion Date” is defined in Section 11.14.1.2.

 

1.1.63Judgment Currency” is defined in Section 11.14.1.

 

1.1.64Knowledge of the Obligors” means the knowledge that the Obligors or any of them either have, or would have obtained, after having made or caused to be made all reasonable inquiries necessary to obtain informed knowledge, including inquiries of the records of any Obligor and the management employees of any Obligor who are reasonably likely to have knowledge of the relevant matter.

 

1.1.65Lender” means Raycom Media, Inc., and its successors and assigns.

 

1.1.66Lien” means any Security Interest, lien (statutory, common law, equitable or otherwise), privilege, charge, trust deemed to exist under any Applicable Law or other encumbrance of any kind, or any other agreement or arrangement creating in favour of any claimant or creditor a right relating to any particular Property that is in priority to the right of any ordinary creditors relating to that Property, and including the right of a lessor under a Capital Lease or Operating Lease.

 

1.1.67Loan Documents” means this Agreement, the Security Documents and any other instruments and agreements entered into between the Lender and any Obligor relating to the Facility.

 

1.1.68Loans” means loans made under the Facility by the Lender to the Borrower.

 

1.1.69Losses” means all claims, suits, actions, debts, damages, costs, losses, liabilities, penalties, obligations, judgments, charges, expenses and disbursements, including all reasonable legal fees and disbursements on a solicitor and its own client basis.

 

1.1.70

Material Adverse Change” means any event, development or circumstance that has had, or could reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

1.1.71Material Adverse Effect” means any fact, circumstance or event that could result in a material adverse effect on:

 

1.1.71.1the business, financial condition, operations or Property of the Obligors on a Consolidated Basis;

 

1.1.71.2the validity or enforceability of any Loan Document;

 

1.1.71.3the ability of any Obligor to perform its material obligations under the Loan Documents; or

 

1.1.71.4the filing, registration, perfection or priority of any Security Interests created by the Security Documents, other than as a result of Permitted Liens that have priority under Applicable Law, against any Property of any Obligor or the rights and remedies of the Lender against that Property.

 

1.1.72Material Permits” means those Authorizations the breach, non-performance or cancellation of which, or the failure of which to renew, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

1.1.73Maturity Date” means the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date, being August 31, 2021, subject to any earlier date that may result from any acceleration of the requirement to pay the Outstanding Obligations under this Agreement.

 

 
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1.1.74Maximum Amount” is defined in Section 2.1.1.

 

1.1.75Natural Environment” means the air, land, subsoil and water (including surface water and ground water), or any combination or part of them.

 

1.1.76Net Income” means, relating to any period, the net income or loss, as applicable, of a Person for that period determined in accordance with IFRS and after Income Tax Expenses but excluding extraordinary items, as shown on that Person’s statement of operations for that period.

 

1.1.77Obligation Currency” is defined in Section 11.13.

 

1.1.78Obligor Location” means, for each Obligor, its sole place of business or chief executive office and, if different, its location as determined under the location of debtor rules in section 7(3) of the Personal Property Security Act (Ontario).

 

1.1.79Obligors” means, collectively, the Borrower and the Guarantors, and “Obligor” means any one of them.
1.1.80Operating Lease” means any lease of Property by a Person as lessee that is required by IFRS to be classified and accounted for as an operating lease.

 

1.1.81Operating Lease Obligations” means, under any Operating Lease entered into by any Obligor as lessee, the aggregate amount of the lease payments of the lessee, including all rent and payments to be made by the lessee in connection with the return of the leased Property, during the remaining term of the Operating Lease, including any period for which the Operating Lease has been extended.

 

1.1.82Optional Repayment Date” is defined in Section 4.1.1.
   
1.1.83Outstanding Obligations” means, collectively, the Borrower’s Obligations, the Guaranteed Obligations and all reasonable expenses and charges, whether for legal expenses or otherwise, incurred by the Lender in collecting or enforcing any of the Borrower’s Obligations or the Guaranteed Obligations, or in realizing on or protecting or preserving any security held for those obligations, including the Security Documents.
   
1.1.84Parties” means, collectively, the Borrower, the Guarantors and the Lender, and their respective successors and permitted assigns, and “Party” means any one of them.

 

 
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1.1.85Pension Plan” means any pension plan, fund or other similar program, other than a government sponsored plan, that covers employees of an Obligor who are employed in Canada and either:

 

1.1.85.1is subject to any statutory funding requirement that, if not satisfied, results in a Lien or other statutory requirement permitting any Governmental Authority to accelerate the obligation of that Obligor to fund all or a substantial portion of the unfunded, accrued benefit liabilities of that plan; or

 

1.1.85.2is, or is intended to be, a “registered pension plan”, as that term is defined in the Income Tax Act.

 

1.1.86Permitted Acquisition” means an Acquisition by an Obligor under which the aggregate consideration is less than $2,500,000 and the aggregate consideration for Acquisitions by all of the Obligors in the Fiscal Year of the Borrower in which the Acquisition takes place is less than $2,500,000, provided that at the time of and immediately after completing the Acquisition no Default or Event of Default will have occurred and be continuing or could reasonably be expected to result from it.

 

1.1.87Permitted Debt” means any of the following types of Debt:

 

1.1.87.1the Outstanding Obligations;

 

1.1.87.2any Debt listed on Schedule 1.1.87.2 and any renewals, extensions and modifications that do not increase the principal amount of that Debt or otherwise make the terms of it more burdensome;

 

1.1.87.3any PMSI Obligations, provided that the aggregate amount of all PMSI Obligations outstanding at any time does not exceed $2,000,000;

 

1.1.87.4any other unsecured Debt of the Obligors or any of them not exceeding at any time $200,000 in aggregate principal amount outstanding;

 

1.1.87.5secured credit facilities from an arm’s length financial institution in a principal amount of not more than $5,000,000 on terms and conditions satisfactory to the Lender, acting reasonably; and

 

1.1.87.6Secured Debt that is subordinated to the Outstanding Obligations on terms satisfactory to the Lender, it its discretion.

 

1.1.88Permitted Disposition” means:

 

1.1.88.1the sale of Inventory by any Obligor in the ordinary course of business;

 

1.1.88.2the sale or other disposition of any Property other than Inventory by any Obligor in the ordinary course of business, provided that the aggregate value of Property so sold or disposed of by all of the Obligors in any Fiscal Year of the Borrower, valued in each case at its purchase price or exchange value (in the case of Property exchanges) does not exceed $350,000;

 

provided that at the time of and immediately after making a sale or other disposition referred to in Section 1.1.88.1, no Default or Event of Default will have occurred and be continuing or could reasonably be expected to result from it.

 

 
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1.1.89Permitted Distribution” means:
1.1.89.1any dividends declared by any Obligor under its Equity Securities that are payable solely in additional Equity Securities, other than any Equity Securities constituting Debt;

 

1.1.89.2Distributions by any Obligor to its shareholders, provided that the aggregate amount of those Distributions made by all of the Obligors in any Fiscal Year of the Borrower does not exceed (i) $0 if the Borrower’s Total Leverage Ratio is equal to or more than 3.00:1.00; or (ii) $250,000, annually, if the Borrower’s Total Leverage Ratio is less than 3.00:1.00 and

 

1.1.89.3Distributions under any one or more stock option plans, profit sharing plans, employment agreements and other compensation plans for directors, officers or employees of any Obligor, provided that the aggregate amount of the payments made by all of the Obligors in any Fiscal Year of the Borrower under all of those plans and agreements will not exceed amounts that are customary for the Borrower’s past practice and in the ordinary course of business.

 

provided that at the time of and immediately after paying or making a dividend or Distribution referred to in Sections 1.1.89, no Default or Event of Default will have occurred and be continuing or could reasonably be expected to result from it.

 

1.1.90Permitted Fundamental Change” means:

 

1.1.90.1any amalgamation of a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary with the Obligor that owns it, if that Obligor is the continuing or surviving corporation, or with or into one or more other Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of an Obligor if one of the Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries will be the continuing or surviving corporation, provided that:

 

1.1.90.1.1the amalgamated corporation confirms to the Lender in writing, in form and substance satisfactory to the Lender, that the amalgamated corporation is an Obligor under this Agreement and is liable for the Outstanding Obligations;

 

1.1.90.1.2the amalgamated corporation immediately delivers to the Lender a certificate of a senior officer attaching the new Constating Documents and incumbency information for that corporation; and

 

1.1.90.1.3the Lender receives all Security Documents, legal opinions and other acknowledgements or agreements from all applicable Persons as the Lender may reasonably require; or

 

1.1.90.2any sale, lease, transfer or other disposition by a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of any or all of its Property, upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise, to the Obligor that owns it or any other Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of an Obligor;

 

 
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provided that at the time of and immediately after a change referred to in Sections 1.1.90.1 or 1.1.90.2 no Default or Event of Default will have occurred and be continuing or could reasonably be expected to result from it.

 

1.1.91Permitted Investment” means:

 

1.1.91.1certificates of deposit, time deposits or overnight bank deposits that mature in six months or less from the date of acquisition of them, with or issued by the Lender or any bank listed on Schedule I to the Bank Act (Canada);

 

1.1.91.2Investments by one Obligor in or to another Obligor, provided that if the Investments are in the Equity Securities of an Obligor, the Lender has a Security Interest in those Equity Securities under a Security Document;

 

1.1.91.3at any time that no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, Investments by an Obligor in any Obligor’s Wholly-Owned Subsidiary which is not itself an Obligor, provided that the aggregate amount of those Investments made by all of the Obligors in any Fiscal Year of the Borrower does not exceed $500,000;

 

1.1.91.4Investments existing on the Closing Date in Equity Securities listed on Schedule 1.1.91.4 or any Replacement Schedule;

 

1.1.91.5loans to officers of an Obligor, provided that the aggregate principal amount of all of those loans outstanding at any time does not exceed $150,000; and

 

1.1.91.6Investments approved by the Borrower’s shareholders for securities into other companies for an Obligor under which at the time of and immediately after completing the Acquisition, no Default or Event of Default will have occurred and be continuing or could reasonably be expected to result from it; such Investments not to exceed $5,000,000.

 

1.1.92Permitted Liens” means, at any time, any of the following:

 

1.1.92.1any Lien for Taxes levied or imposed by a Governmental Authority against an Obligor:

 

1.1.92.1.1that are not due or delinquent at that time; or

 

1.1.92.1.2the validity of which the Obligor is contesting in good faith at that time and relating to which the Obligor has set aside a reserve sufficient to pay those Taxes, or which at that time is not a material risk to the Property of the Obligor, whether because no steps or proceedings to enforce that Lien have been initiated at that time or because the value of the Property affected by the Lien is not material to the Property of the Obligors collectively;

 

1.1.92.2any Lien for any judgment rendered, or order filed, against Property of an Obligor which the Obligor is contesting in good faith at that time:

 

1.1.92.2.1relating to which the Obligor has set aside a reserve sufficient to pay that judgment or order in accordance with IFRS; or

 

 
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1.1.92.2.2that is not material, because the value of the Property affected by the Lien is not material to the Property of the Obligors collectively;

 

1.1.92.3any Lien against an Obligor or Property of an Obligor imposed or permitted by Applicable Law which:

 

1.1.92.3.1is inchoate and relates to obligations of an Obligor not yet due or delinquent;

 

1.1.92.3.2in the case of any repairer’s or storer’s Lien that has been filed, the aggregate amount of the obligations to which the Lien relates does not exceed $250,000, and that Lien is not a material risk to the Property subject to it, whether because no steps or proceedings to enforce the Lien have been initiated at that time or because the value of the Property affected by the Lien is not material to the Property of the Obligors collectively; or

 

1.1.92.3.3is not a material risk to the Property of the Obligor, whether because no steps or proceedings to enforce the Lien have been initiated at that time or because the value of the Property affected by the Lien is not material to the Property of the Obligors collectively;

 

1.1.92.4any undetermined or inchoate Lien against an Obligor or Property of an Obligor arising in the ordinary course of and incidental to construction by or current operations of that Obligor:

 

1.1.92.4.1that relates to obligations that are not yet due or delinquent;

 

1.1.92.4.2that has not been filed under Applicable Law against an Obligor or its Property, or if filed, the Obligor has obtained an order of a court of competent jurisdiction discharging that Lien within 15 days of the filing of it;

 

1.1.92.4.3relating to which no steps or proceedings to enforce that Lien have been initiated; or

 

1.1.92.4.4that is not a material risk to Property of the Obligors, because the value of the Property affected by the Lien is not material to the Property of the Obligors collectively;

 

1.1.92.5easements, rights-of-way, servitudes or other similar rights or restrictions relating to land in which any Obligor has an interest (including rights-of-way and servitudes for railways, sewers, drains, pipe lines, gas and water mains, and electric light, power, telephone internet and cable television conduits, poles, wires, cables and optic fibre cables), granted to or reserved or taken by other Persons, which either alone or in the aggregate do not materially detract from the value of the Property of the Obligors collectively or materially impair the use or operation of that Property;

 

 
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1.1.92.6any Lien given by an Obligor to a public utility or any Governmental Authority when and to the extent required by that public utility or Governmental Authority that relates to obligations that are not yet due or delinquent and which Lien does not, either alone or in the aggregate, materially detract from the value of the Property of the Obligors subject to that Lien or materially impair the use or operation of that Property;

 

1.1.92.7the reservation in any original grant from the Crown of any Real Property of an Obligor or interests in it, and statutory exceptions to title;

 

1.1.92.8any Lien attaching to or against any Property of an Obligor which is in favour of another Obligor and is subordinated in favour of the Lender;

 

1.1.92.9cash, marketable securities or bonds deposited by an Obligor in connection with bids or tenders, deposited with a court as security for costs in any litigation, deposited to secure workers’ compensation or unemployment insurance liabilities, or deposited to secure the performance of statutory obligations of an Obligor;

 

1.1.92.10Liens securing the performance of statutory obligations, surety or performance bonds and other obligations of similar nature incurred in the ordinary course of business of an Obligor, provided that those Liens are subordinate to the Security Interests created by the Security Documents;

 

1.1.92.11Purchase Money Security securing PMSI Obligations that constitute Permitted Debt;

 

1.1.92.12any Operating Leases of an Obligor under which the aggregate Operating Lease Obligations outstanding at any time under leases of personal Property do not exceed $2,000,000, and the aggregate Operating Lease Obligations outstanding at any time under any Real Property Leases of an Obligor constituting Operating Leases do not exceed $10,000,000;

 

1.1.92.13Security Interests securing Debt permitted pursuant section 1.1.87.5, which may permit the lender providing such Debt to have a first priority security interest on cash and accounts receivable of the Obligors, subject to an interecreditor arrangement satisfactory to the Lender, acting reasonably;

 

1.1.92.14other than as set out in Section 1.1.92.13, any Lien securing Permitted Debt; and

 

1.1.92.15the Liens set forth in Schedule 8.1.19

 

1.1.92.16the Security Interests created by the Security Documents.

 

1.1.93Person” will be broadly interpreted and includes:

 

1.1.93.1a natural person, whether acting in his or her own capacity, or in his or her capacity as executor, administrator, estate trustee, trustee or personal or legal representative, and the heirs, executors, administrators, estate trustees, trustees or other personal or legal representatives of a natural person;

 

 
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1.1.93.2a corporation or a company of any kind, a partnership of any kind, a sole proprietorship, a trust, a joint venture, an association, an unincorporated association, an unincorporated syndicate, an unincorporated organization or any other association, organization or entity of any kind; and

 

1.1.93.3a Governmental Authority.

 

1.1.94PMSI Obligation” means:

 

1.1.94.1the unpaid purchase price of any tangible Property purchased or acquired by an Obligor;

 

1.1.94.2any indebtedness incurred or assumed by an Obligor to enable it to acquire rights in any tangible Property, to the extent that the indebtedness is applied to acquire those rights; and

 

1.1.94.3any Capital Lease Obligations of an Obligor,

 

provided that before entering into the agreement creating the obligations described in Sections 1.1.94.1, 1.1.94.2 and 1.1.94.3, no Obligor or any Related Party to an Obligor owned or had any interest in that Property or any portion of it; and

 

1.1.94.4any extensions, renewals, refinancings or replacements, whether from the same or another lender or lessor, in whole or in part, of any indebtedness or lease obligations described in Sections 1.1.94.1, 1.1.94.2 and 1.1.94.3, provided that the principal amount of indebtedness of an Obligor secured by, or of the Capital Lease Obligations of an Obligor after, any extension, renewal, refinancing or replacement does not exceed the principal amount outstanding immediately before the extension, renewal, refinancing or replacement, and the Liens granted in respect of that indebtedness or those Capital Lease Obligations will be limited to all or a part of the Property or assets which secured that indebtedness or those Capital Lease Obligations immediately prior to that extension, renewal, refinancing or replacement.

 

1.1.95Priority Claims” means, at the time of any determination of them, the aggregate amount due and payable at that time which is subject to or secured by one or more statutory Liens created or arising, without any necessity for the consent or agreement of any Obligor, by operation of Applicable Law that rank or are capable of ranking in priority to or pari passu with the Security Interests created by the Security Documents, including all claims that are due and payable or past due relating to employee salaries and wages, vacation pay, employee withholdings, pension plan contributions, workers’ compensation assessment, Taxes (including municipal Taxes) and claims by public utilities.

 

1.1.96Property” means present and after-acquired property, assets, undertakings and privileges, whether real or personal, tangible or intangible, moveable or immoveable, and all interests in them.

 

1.1.97Purchase Money Security” means any Security Interest created or assumed by an Obligor to secure PMSI Obligations that extends only to the Property that the Obligor acquired or leased in incurring or assuming those PMSI Obligations, and the identifiable or traceable proceeds of that Security Interest.

 

 
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1.1.98Real Property” means all present and future real property and all interests in it, whether held in fee simple or any lesser estate, including all Real Property Leases, mortgages, easements, rights-of-way, licences, privileges, benefits, and rights related to or connected with that real property.

 

1.1.99Real Property Leases” means all leases, agreements to lease or sub-leases relating to any Real Property, including all easements, rights-of-way, licences, privileges, benefits, and rights related to or connected with that Real Property, and all present and future licences under which the licencee is given the right to use or occupy any Real Property, all as amended, extended or renewed.

 

1.1.100Receivable” means a trade account receivable of or owned by an Obligor, and all related instruments and documents.

 

1.1.101“Reference Period” means, with respect to any date of determination, the most recent four (4) consecutive Fiscal Quarter period then ended or most recently ended for which financial statements have been made available to the Lender;

 

1.1.102Related Parties” means, with respect to any Person, that Person’s Affiliates and the directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of that Person and of that Person’s Affiliates, and “Related Party” means any one of them.

 

1.1.103Release” includes deposit, leak, emit, add, spray, inject, inoculate, abandon, spill, seep, pour, empty, throw, dump, place and exhaust, and when used as a noun has a corresponding meaning.

 

1.1.104Risk Management Transaction” means any foreign exchange or interest rate risk management transaction, commodity swap, option, cap, collar, floor or similar arrangement or other risk management arrangement to which any Person is a party.
1.1.105Security Documents” is defined in Section 7.1.1.

 

1.1.106Security Interest” means any mortgage, charge, pledge, assignment, hypothecation, title retention, finance lease or security interest, including any trust obligations, creating in favour of any creditor a right in respect of any Property.

 

1.1.107Seller Debt” is defined in Section 2.2.1.

 

1.1.108Software Escrow Agreement” is defined in Section 7.1.1.4.

 

1.1.109Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person (in this Section 1.1.109 the “Parent”), at any time, any corporation, limited liability company, trust, partnership, limited partnership, association or other entity the accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the Parent in the Parent’s consolidated Financial Statements if those Financial Statements were prepared in accordance with IFRS as of that date, as well as any other corporation, limited liability company, trust, partnership, limited partnership, association or other entity:

 

 
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1.1.109.1of which Equity Securities representing more than 50% of the equity or economic interest in them or more than 50% of the ordinary voting power, or, in the case of a partnership, more than 50% of the general or limited partnership interests or the economic interest in them are, as at that time, owned, Controlled or held by any combination of the Parent and one or more Subsidiaries of the Parent; or

 

1.1.109.2that is, as at that time, otherwise Controlled by any combination of the Parent and one or more Subsidiaries of the Parent.

 

1.1.110Taxes” means all present and future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings, assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable to them.

 

1.1.111Three Party Escrow Agreement” is defined in Section 7.1.1.5;

 

1.1.112Total Leverage Ratio” means, at any time, without duplication and on a Consolidated Basis, the ratio of:

 

1.1.112.1the aggregate amount of Debt of the Borrower; to

 

1.1.112.2Adjusted EBITDA of the Borrower,

 

in each case, for the applicable Reference Period of the Borrower.

 

1.1.113U.S. Dollars” or “U.S.$” each means currency of the United States of America which, as at the time of payment or determination, is legal tender in the United States of America for the payment or determination of public or private debts.

 

1.1.114Wholly-Owned Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of a Person in which that Person owns, directly or indirectly, 100% of the issued and outstanding Equity Securities.

 

1.2Certain Rules of Interpretation

 

1.2.1In this Agreement, words signifying the singular number include the plural and vice versa, and words signifying gender include all genders. Every use of the words “including” or “includes” in this Agreement is to be construed as meaning “including, without limitation” or “includes, without limitation”, respectively.

 

1.2.2The division of this Agreement into Articles and Sections, the insertion of headings and the inclusion of a table of contents are for convenience of reference only and do not affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement.

 

1.2.3References in this Agreement to an Article, Section, Schedule or Exhibit are to be construed as references to an Article, Section, Schedule or Exhibit of or to this Agreement unless otherwise specified.

 

1.2.4Unless otherwise specified in this Agreement:

 

1.2.4.1time periods within which or following which any calculation or payment is to be made, or action is to be taken, will be calculated by excluding the day on which the period begins and including the day on which the period ends; and

 

1.2.4.2if the last day of a time period is not a Business Day, the time period will end on the next Business Day.

 

 
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1.2.5Unless otherwise specified, any reference in this Agreement to any statute includes all regulations and subordinate legislation made under or in connection with that statute at any time, and is to be construed as a reference to that statute as amended, modified, restated, supplemented, extended, re-enacted, replaced or superseded at any time.

 

1.2.6References to an amount of money in this Agreement will, unless otherwise expressly stated, be to that amount in United States Dollars.

 

1.3Governing Law

 

This Agreement is governed by, and is to be construed and interpreted in accordance with, the laws of the Province of Ontario and the laws of Canada applicable therein.

 

1.4Entire Agreement

 

This Agreement, together with, any other agreement or agreements and other documents (including other Loan Documents) to be delivered under this Agreement, constitutes the entire agreement between the Parties pertaining to the subject matter of this Agreement and supersedes all prior agreements, understandings, negotiations and discussions, whether oral or written, of the Parties, and there are no representations, warranties or other agreements between the Parties in connection with the subject matter of this Agreement except as specifically set out in this Agreement or in any of the other agreements and documents (including other Loan Documents) delivered under this Agreement. No Party has been induced to enter into this Agreement in reliance on, and there will be no liability assessed, either in tort or contract, with respect to, any warranty, representation, opinion, advice or assertion of fact, except to the extent it has been reduced to writing and included as a term in this Agreement or in any of the other agreements and documents (including other Loan Documents) delivered under this Agreement.

 

1.5Business Day

 

Whenever any calculation or payment to be made or action to be taken under this Agreement is required to be made or taken on a day other than a Business Day, then unless otherwise specified in this Agreement, the calculation or payment is to be made, or action is to be taken, on the next Business Day.

 

1.6Conflicts

 

In the event of a conflict in or between the provisions of this Agreement and the provisions of any other Loan Document, then, despite anything contained in that other Loan Document, the provisions of this Agreement will prevail and those provisions of that other Loan Document will be deemed to be amended to the extent necessary to eliminate the conflict. If any act or omission is expressly prohibited under a Loan Document, other than this Agreement, but this Agreement does not expressly permit that act or omission, or if any act is expressly required to be performed under a Loan Document, other than this Agreement, but this Agreement does not expressly relieve the applicable Obligor from that performance, that circumstance will not constitute a conflict in or between the provisions of this Agreement and the provisions of that other Loan Document.

 

 
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1.7Guaranteed Amounts

 

In this Agreement, a Guarantee will be deemed to be in an amount equal to the amount of the Debt relating to which the Guarantee is given, unless the Guarantee is limited to a determinable amount, in which case the amount of the Guarantee will be deemed to be the lesser of the amount of the Debt relating to which the Guarantee is given and that determinable amount.

 

1.8Accounting Changes

 

If any Accounting Changes occur and such changes result in a material change in the calculation of the financial covenants, standards or terms used in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, the Borrower and the Lender agree to enter into negotiations in order to amend such provisions of this Agreement or such Loan Document, as applicable, so as to equitably reflect such Accounting Changes with the desired result that the criteria for evaluating the Borrower’s financial condition shall be the same after such accounting changes as if such accounting changes had not been made.

 

If the borrower and the Lender agree upon the required amendments, then after appropriate amendments have been executed and the underlying Accounting Changes with respect thereto has been implemented, any reference to IFRS contained in this Agreement or in any other Loan Document shall, only to the extent of such Accounting Changes, refer to IFRS, consistently applied after giving effect to the implementation of such Accounting Changes.

 

If the Borrower and the Lender cannot agree upon the required amendments within thirty (30) days following the date of implementation of any Accounting Change, then all calculations of financial covenants and other standards and terms in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall continue to be prepared, delivered and made without regard to the underlying Accounting Change. In such case, Borrower shall, in connection with the delivery of any financial statements under this agreement, provide a management prepared reconciliation of the financial covenants to such financial statements in light of such Accounting Changes.

 

1.9Schedules and Exhibits

 

The following is a list of Schedules and Exhibits:

 

Schedules Subject Matter
1.1.87.2 Permitted Debt
1.1.91.4 Investments on Closing Date
8.1.6 Litigation
8.1.8 Organizational Structure
8.1.9 Equity Securities
8.1.10.2 Taxes
8.1.11.1 Owned and Leased Real Property
8.1.11.2 Operating Leases and Capital Leases
8.1.15 Environmental Disclosure
8.1.17 Intellectual Property Rights
8.1.18 Software
8.1.19 Permitted Liens
Exhibits Subject Matter
7.1.1.4 Code Escrow Agreement
7.1.1.5 Three-Party Escrow Service Agreement
9.1.1.4 Compliance Certificate

 

 
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Article 2
CREDIT FACILITy

 

2.1Facility

 

2.1.1Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Lender establishes in favour of the Borrower a non-revolving credit facility as described in this Section 2.1 (the “Facility”) for the period from and after the Closing Date until the Maturity Date, and agrees to make Loans available to the Borrower under the Facility, provided that the sum of all Loans outstanding under the Facility will not at any time exceed US$14,500,000 (subject to Section 2.1.3, the “Maximum Amount”);

 

2.1.2Within the limits and restrictions set out in Section 2.1.1, the principal amount outstanding to the Lender under the Facility may not revolve but the Borrower may repay Loans in full or in accordance with the terms hereof without penalty.

 

2.1.3

Subject to the consent of the Lender, at its sole discretion, if the Borrower requires further loans for working capital or general operating requirements, it may request from time to time on not less than thirty (30) Business Days written notice, that the Maximum Amount be increased by minimum increments of US$500,000 up to an aggregate amount of US$1,500,000. Such requests once delivered shall be irrevocable. No such request may be delivered later than ninety (90) days prior the Maturity Date. If the Lender agrees, in its sole discretion, to an increase in the Maximum Amount, it shall so advise the Borrower in writing and the Borrower and the Lender shall agree on the date or dates on which further Loans shall be made (which shall be in the full amount of the agreed upon increase to the Maximum Amount). If the Lender does not advise the Borrower in writing within fifteen (15) Business Days that it has agreed to an increase in the Maximum Amount, the Lender shall be deemed to have refused such increase and the Maximum Amount shall remain unchanged. If any Event of Default or Default shall have occurred, no increase to the Maximum Amount shall be available. For certainty, no amounts repaid may be reborrowed pursuant to this Section

 

2.2Purpose

 

The Borrower will use the Loans obtained by it under the Facility as follows:

 

2.2.1the initial Loan will be used to repay in full the indebtedness, liabilities and obligations of the Borrower to the sellers in connection with the Borrower’s purchase of Frankly Media LLC (other than $1,000,000 in principal Debt owing to the Lender in respect thereof) (“Seller Debt”) on the Closing Date; and

 

2.2.2each subsequent Loan will be used by the Borrower solely to finance the working capital and other general operating requirements of the Obligors.

 

2.3Drawdowns—Notices and Limitations

 

2.3.1The first Loan hereunder shall be in the Maximum Amount as of the Closing Date and shall be made on the day after the Closing Date;

 

2.3.2No Loan may occur if a Default or Event of Default is subsisting, or all of the conditions precedent in Article 6 have not been satisfied and all other terms and conditions of this Agreement have been met.

 

2.4Lender’s Records

 

The Lender will maintain records of:

 

2.4.1the Borrower’s Obligations for outstanding Loans and accrued interest on them, fees relating to them, and other amounts payable under this Agreement;

 

2.4.2the amounts paid at any time by the Borrower to the Lender under this Agreement for Loans, interest, fees and other amounts.

 

The Borrower agrees that all records kept by the Lender will constitute prima facie evidence of the matters referred to in this Section, but the failure of the Lender to make any entry in its records will not limit or otherwise affect the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement or with respect to any Loans, Loans, interest, fees or other amounts owed by it to the Lender.

 

 
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 Article 3
CALCULATION OF INTEREST, FEES AND EXPENSES

 

3.1Calculation and Payment of Interest

 

3.1.1The Borrower will pay interest on each Loan outstanding at any time at a rate per annum of 10%. Interest will accrue and be calculated, but not compounded, daily on the principal amount of each Loan on the basis of the actual number of days each Loan is outstanding in a year of 365 or 366 days, as applicable, and will be compounded and payable monthly in arrears on each Interest Payment Date.

 

To the maximum extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Borrower will pay interest on all overdue amounts owing by the Borrower under this Agreement, including any overdue interest payments, from the date each of those amounts is due until the date each of those amounts is paid in full. That interest will be calculated daily, compounded monthly and payable on demand of the Lender at a rate per annum of 12%.

 

3.2Expenses

 

The Borrower will pay to the Lender on the Closing Date, or reimburse the Lender for, the following reasonable out-of-pocket expenses, including reasonable legal fees and disbursements (on a solicitor and its own client basis):

 

 

3.2.1the expenses of the Lender incurred in negotiating, preparing, registering and executing the Loan Documents; and

 

3.2.2the expenses of the Lender incurred in enforcing the Loan Documents, including the costs of legal counsel acting on behalf of the Lender.

 

3.3General Provisions Regarding Interest

 

3.3.1Each determination by the Lender of the amount of interest, fees or other amounts payable by the Borrower to the Lender under this Agreement will be prima facie evidence of the accuracy of the determination.

 

3.3.2Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, all interest, fees and other amounts payable by the Borrower under this Agreement will accrue daily, be calculated as described in this Agreement, and be payable both before and after demand, maturity, default and judgment.

 

3.3.3To the full extent permitted by Applicable Law, the covenant of the Borrower to pay interest at the rates provided in this Agreement will not merge in any judgment relating to any obligation of the Borrower to the Lender.

 

3.3.4For the purposes of the Interest Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-15:

 

3.3.4.1the principle of deemed reinvestment of interest will not apply to any calculation or determination of interest under this Agreement;
3.3.4.2the rates of interest specified in this Agreement are intended to be nominal rates and not effective rates; and
3.3.4.3unless otherwise stated, each rate of interest specified in this Agreement as an interest rate “per annum” or a similar expression, is to be calculated on the basis of a calendar year of 365 or 366 days, as applicable, and the annual rate of interest which is equivalent to that interest rate will be that rate multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the total number of days in each year and the denominator of which is 365 or 366 days, as applicable. If the amount of any interest is determined or expressed on the basis of a period of less than a year of 365 or 366 days, as applicable, the equivalent annual rate is equal to the rate so determined or expressed, divided by the number of days in the period, and multiplied by the actual number of days in that calendar year.

 

 
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3.4Maximum Return

 

3.4.1In no event will any interest, fees or other amounts payable under this Agreement exceed the maximum rate permitted by Applicable Law. If any provisions of this Agreement would require the Borrower to pay any interest or make any other payment that is construed by a court of competent jurisdiction to be interest in an amount or calculated at a rate that would be prohibited by Applicable Law or would result in receipt by the Lender of interest at a criminal rate (as those terms are construed under the Criminal Code), then despite those provisions, that amount or rate will be deemed to have been reduced to the maximum amount or rate recoverable under Applicable Law, as if the Parties had agreed to that amount or rate by contract. That reduction will be effected, to the extent necessary:

 

3.4.1.1firstly, by reducing the amount or rate of interest otherwise required to be paid under Article 3 of this Agreement; and

 

3.4.1.2secondly, by reducing any fees, commissions, premiums and other amounts that would constitute interest for the purposes of Section 347 of the Criminal Code.

 

3.4.2If, despite the provisions of this Section 3.4 and after giving effect to all reductions under it, the Lender has received an amount or rate in excess of the maximum permitted by the Criminal Code, then that excess will be applied by the Lender to reduce the principal balance of the Borrower’s Obligations outstanding and not to the payment of interest, with any remaining portion being paid to subsequent secured creditors or to the applicable Obligors, as determined by Applicable Law.

 

3.4.3Any amount or rate of interest referred to in this Section 3.4 will be determined in accordance with generally accepted actuarial practices and principles at an effective annual rate of interest over the term of this Agreement on the assumption that any charges, fees, expenses or other amounts that fall within the meaning of “interest” (as defined in the Criminal Code) will, if they relate to a specific period of time, be prorated over that period of time and otherwise be prorated over the term of this Agreement and, in the event of dispute, a certificate of a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries appointed by the Lender will be conclusive for the purposes of that determination.

 

Article 4
REDUCTION OF COMMITMENT AND REPAYMENT

 

4.1Optional Repayment of Loans under the Facility

 

4.1.1The Borrower will have the right at any time on any Business Day (an “Optional Repayment Date”) to repay all, or a portion of, Loans outstanding under the Facility without premium, penalty or bonus on the following terms and conditions:

 

4.1.1.1the Lender will have received an irrevocable written notice by 12:00 (noon) (Toronto time) not fewer than three Business Days before the Optional Repayment Date specifying the Loans will be repaid in full;

 

4.1.1.2on the applicable Optional Repayment Date, the Borrower will repay the outstanding Loans in accordance with the notice given under Section 4.1.1.1 together with all interest, fees and other amounts accrued and unpaid under this Agreement, and any amounts payable under Section 5.1.

 

 
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4.2Repayment of Facility

 

Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, all Loans outstanding under the Facility, together with all accrued interest, fees and other amounts unpaid relating to those Loans, will be due and payable in full on the Maturity Date, and the Facility will be automatically terminated at that time.

 

4.3Other Mandatory Repayments

 

4.3.1Subject to the other subsections of this Section 4.3, if at any time the sum of all Loans outstanding under the Facility exceeds the Maximum Amount the Borrower will immediately repay to the Lender an amount of the applicable Loans outstanding at least equal to that excess.

 

4.3.2The Borrower shall make all of the following mandatory repayments:

 

4.3.2.1a mandatory repayment of US $2,000,000 prior to August 31, 2019;

 

4.3.2.2commencing on November 30, 2019 and on the last day of the month of each three month period thereafter, an amount of US$687,500 per three month period;

 

4.3.2.3proceeds (less actual costs paid and income taxes) on any asset sales or issuances of debt or equity (subject to certain priority of payment in favour of Silicon Valley Bank or Bridge Bank only in respect of accounts receivable of the Obligors);

 

4.3.2.4upon a successful listing of Borrower’s shares on the NASDAQ with a capital raise of between US$8,000,000 to $US11,000,000 mandatory repayment in the amount of US$2,000,000, which will be applied toward fulfilling the repayment obligation required by Section 4.3.2.1 by August 31, 2019 if completed by March 31, 2017;

 

4.3.2.5upon a successful listing of Borrower’s shares on the NASDAQ with a capital raise of more than US$12,000,000, a mandatory repayment in the amount of US$3,000,000 which will be applied toward fulfilling the $2,000,000 repayment obligation required by Section 4.3.2.1 by August 31, 2019 if completed by March 31, 2017 and any amounts raised in excess of US$2,000,000 will be applied pro rata to repayment obligations required by Section 4.3.2.2 commencing November 30, 2019; and

 

4.3.2.6

commencing on the financial year ending December 31, 2017, and each financial year ending after December 31, 2017, 100% of the Current Year Excess Cash Flow Amount in excess of $2,000,000 shall be paid to the Lender as a mandatory repayment amount no later than May 1 of the following year until a Total Leverage Ratio of not more than 3.00:1.00 has been met for such Fiscal Year, at which point 50% of the Current Year Excess Cash Amount in excess of $2,000,000 shall be paid to the Lender as mandatory repayment amounts. Such Excess Cash Flow payments shall be applied pro rata to reduce other mandatory payments due hereunder

 

4.3.3Prepayments under this Section 4.3 of Loans outstanding will be applied by the Lender:

 

 
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4.3.3.1firstly, to repay principal of Loans outstanding under the Facility; and

 

4.3.3.2secondly, to repay any other Outstanding Obligations.

 

4.3.4The payments set out in this Section 4.3 are in addition to all other payments of principal, interest, fees, expenses or other amounts required under this Agreement.

 

4.4Payments—General

 

4.4.1Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, all payments of principal, interest, fees, expenses and other amounts payable under the Borrower’s Obligations and owing at any time by the Borrower to the Lender under this Agreement will be made in immediately available, freely transferable same day funds in the currency in which the Loans are outstanding, at the Lender’s address for notice provided herein. All payments received after 12:00 (noon) (Toronto time) will be deemed to be received on the next Business Day.

 

4.4.2The Borrower will make all payments required under this Agreement, whether of principal, interest, fees, expenses or other amounts payable under the Borrower’s Obligations or otherwise owing by the Borrower to the Lender:

 

4.4.2.1in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; and
   
4.4.2.2without regard to any defence, counterclaim, deduction or right of set off available to the Borrower.

 

4.4.3Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, if any payment required under this Agreement becomes due and payable on a day that is not a Business Day, that payment will be made on the next following Business Day, and any extension of time in those circumstances will be included in computing interest and any other amounts payable under this Agreement relating to that payment.

 

Article 5
INDEMNITIES

 

5.1General Indemnity

The Borrower will indemnify and save harmless the Lender and its Affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents and attorneys (in this Article 5, each an “Indemnified Party”), immediately on demand by the Lender, from and against all Losses that any Indemnified Party may sustain or incur as a result of or in connection with the Facility or the Loan Documents, including as a result of or in connection with:

 

5.1.1any cost or expense incurred by reason of the liquidation or redeployment in whole or in part of deposits or other funds required to fund or maintain any Loan as a result of the Borrower’s failure to complete a Loan or to make any payment, prepayment or repayment on the date required under this Agreement or specified by the Lender in any notice given under this Agreement;

 

 
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5.1.2the Borrower’s failure to pay principal, interest, fees, expenses or other amounts due under this Agreement on the due date after the expiration of any applicable grace periods;

 

5.1.3the acceleration under Article 10 of this Agreement of any of the Facility or of the Loans or any other amounts owing under this Agreement or any other Loan Documents;

 

5.1.4the Borrower’s failure to give any notice required to be given by it to the Lender under this Agreement;

 

5.1.5any inaccuracy in the representations and warranties in Article 8 of this Agreement or any other representation, warranty or statement of any Obligor in any other Loan Documents;

 

5.1.6any failure of any Obligor to observe or comply with the covenants, negative covenants or other agreements applicable to it under the Loan Documents; or

 

5.1.7the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default.

 

5.2Environmental Indemnity

 

Without limiting the indemnity in Section 5.1 above, the Borrower will indemnify and save harmless each Indemnified Party, immediately on demand by the Lender on the terms set out in this Section 5.2, from and against all Environmental Liabilities that any Indemnified Party may sustain or incur as a result of or in connection with the Facility or the Loan Documents, including as a result of or in connection with:

 

5.2.1realization on the Security Documents;

 

5.2.2an Indemnified Party being a lender to the Borrower or a successor to or assignee of any right or interest of any Obligor;

 

5.2.3any order, investigation or action by any Governmental Authority relating to any Obligor or its Business or the Property;

 

5.2.4an Indemnified Party being or being deemed to be a mortgagee in possession of the Property of any Obligor or a successor or successor-in-interest to any Obligor as a result of taking possession of all or any of the Property of an Obligor, whether by foreclosure, foreclosure deed, deed in lieu of foreclosure or by any other means; or

 

5.2.5the past, present or future operations of any Obligor or any predecessor in interest to any Obligor, or the past, present or future condition of any part of any Property owned, operated, leased or occupied by any Obligor or any predecessor in interest to any Obligor.

 

Article 6
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

 

6.1Conditions Precedent to the Initial Drawdown

 

The obligation of the Lender to make available the initial Loans is subject to the Borrower satisfying each of the conditions precedent set out in this Section 6.1 on or before the Closing Date, to the satisfaction of the Lender and its counsel.

 

 
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6.1.1Documents. The Lender will have received, in form and substance satisfactory to it, duly executed and delivered originals of the following:

 

6.1.1.1this Agreement;

 

6.1.1.2the Security Documents;
   
6.1.1.3a certificate dated as of the Closing Date from a Responsible Officer of each Obligor:

 

6.1.1.3.1attaching true copies of its Constating Documents;

 

6.1.1.3.2attaching true copies of resolutions dated as of the Closing Date of its directors or other managing body authorizing the entering into, execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents to which it is a party and setting out the manner in which those Loan Documents are to be executed and delivered;

 

6.1.1.3.3setting out specimen signatures of one or more Responsible Officers or other authorized signatories who will sign on its behalf the Loan Documents to which it is a party;

 

6.1.1.3.4certifying any other matters as required by the Lender, acting reasonably, including the matters referred to in Sections 6.2.1, 6.2.2, and 6.2.3;

 

6.1.1.4a Compliance Certificate as at the Closing Date;

 

6.1.1.5certificates of status relating to each Obligor that is a corporation, and partnership searches relating to each Obligor that is a partnership;

 

6.1.1.6an opinion of counsel for the Obligors in each jurisdiction specified by the Lender, acting reasonably, addressed to the Lender and its counsel and dated the Closing Date, with respect to the existence, powers and capacity of each Obligor, the authorization, execution and delivery of the Loan Documents, the legality, validity and enforceability of the Loan Documents, regulatory compliance, the validity of the Security Interests created by the Security Documents, the registration of the Security Documents and perfection of the Security Interests created by them, the absence of conflict and any other matters as the Lender requires, in form and substance satisfactory to the Lender, acting reasonably;

 

6.1.1.7all other documents and instruments that are customary for transactions of this type or as may be reasonably requested by the Lender;

 

6.1.1.8simultaneous with the initial Loan, all other creditors to the Obligors (other than ordinary course of business trade creditors) have been repaid in full and their security terminated and their security interests discharged (or an undertaking to discharge satisfactory to the Lender has been received by the Lender);

 

 
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6.1.1.9Lender’s shall have received a warrant certificate and other warrant documentation entitling the Lender to acquire 14,809,720 common shares of the Borrower at any time within 5 years following the Closing Date with an exercise price of 0.50CAD; all on terms and conditions satisfactory to the Lender and confirmation of listing approval from the TSXV in respect of the common shares issuable upon exercise of such warrants from time to time;

 

6.1.1.10the Borrower’s financial projections which, for certainty, shall include a balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows, along with all pertinent underlying assumptions, prepared on a monthly pro-forma basis, for the fiscal years ended 2016 and 2017, with demonstrated liquidity to fund ongoing business requirements of the Obligors satisfactory to the Lender;

 

6.1.1.11the Obligors’ operational plan;

 

6.1.1.12the execution and delivery of appropriate and duly authorized legal documentation as required by the Lender (including, without limitation, the Loan Agreement and all applicable security documents, legal opinions (including supporting resolutions and certificates), compliance certificates, original share certificates and powers of attorney, landlord, source code escrow agreements, PPSA and UCC estoppel letters, inter-creditor agreements with third party debt holders and subordination agreements, if applicable), which must be satisfactory in form and substance to Borrower and Lender and their respective counsels;

 

 

6.1.1.13simultaneous with the closing, the Lender’s satisfaction that the assets of the Obligors are free and clear of all liens and security interests (other than the Permitted Liens and as may be permitted by the Lender) and that the security interests granted to the Lender have been perfected and all security filings in favour of the Lender have been properly registered and completed;

 

6.1.1.14the corporate structure, ownership structure, financial condition and capital structure of the Obligors and their respective subsidiaries;

 

6.1.1.15all material agreements of the Borrower and the Guarantors (as determined by the Lender);

 

6.1.1.16Lender’s satisfaction that there has occurred no Material Adverse Change;

 

6.1.1.17the Obligors shall not have incurred or assumed any Debt on or prior to the Closing Date (other than to the Lender, as contemplated by this Loan Agreement and as otherwise agreed in writing by the Lender);

 

6.1.1.18simultaneous with the closing, US$1,000,000 of the existing US$4,000,000 principal amount of the loans owing by the Borrower to the Lender shall be repaid by the issuance of US$1,000,000 of common stock in the Borrower, based on the Market Price of such stock and subject to documentation satisfactory to the Lender; and

 

6.1.1.19irrevocable direction to the Lender, in form and content satisfactory to the Lender, that the proceeds of the initial Loan is to repay in full on the Closing Date the Seller Debt.

 

 
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6.1.2Further Conditions. The Borrower will have satisfied as at the Closing Date the conditions precedent set out in Sections 6.2.1 to 6.2.5 inclusive.

 

6.1.3Registration of Security. The Security Documents or notices of them will have been duly registered, recorded or filed in all places and jurisdictions that the Lender and its counsel deem appropriate, all steps will have been taken to validly create, perfect, protect and preserve the Security Interests created by the Security Documents and to provide the Facility, the Outstanding Obligations and those Security Interests with the priority contemplated by this Agreement, and the Lender will have received evidence satisfactory to the Lender and its counsel of the completion of those registrations, recordings and filings and the full payment of all necessary registration, recording and filing fees for them.

 

6.1.4Fees. The Borrower will have paid to the Lender all fees and expenses that are due and payable by the Borrower on or before the Closing Date under the Loan Documents.

 

6.1.5Insurance. The Lender will have received a certificate from each insurance broker of the Obligors with respect to the Insurance, in scope and substance satisfactory to the Lender, dated not more than 30 days before the Closing Date, confirming that the Obligors have the Insurance required by Section 9.1.16.

 

6.1.6Due Diligence. The Lender will have been satisfied with the results of its financial, business and legal due diligence with respect to the Obligors, and will have received and be satisfied with the results of all Property, litigation, judgment, bankruptcy, execution and other searches conducted or caused to be conducted by the Lender and its counsel with respect to the Obligors in all jurisdictions that the Lender and its counsel deem appropriate.

 

6.1.7Regulatory Approval, Consents and Waivers. The Lender will be satisfied, acting reasonably, that all material Authorizations required in connection with the Loan Documents have been obtained and are in full force and effect, and that all consents and waivers from other Persons required to authorize, execute, deliver and perform the Loan Documents have been obtained, to the extent that completion of the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents would otherwise be restricted or prohibited under the terms of any Material Contract to which any Obligor is a party, or by which it is bound, including any consents to the Security Interests created by the Security Documents from landlords under any Real Property Leases of any Obligor, and any other consents and waivers as may be required by the Lender.

 

6.2Conditions Precedent to all Loans

 

The obligation of the Lender to make available or permit any Loans is subject to the Borrower satisfying each of the conditions precedent set out in this Section 6.2 as at each date of advance of such Loan to the satisfaction of the Lender and its counsel:

 

6.2.1the representations and warranties contained in Section 8.1 will be true and correct on each date of such Loan with the same effect as if made as of that date;

 

6.2.2no Material Adverse Change will have occurred and be continuing, and no Material Adverse Change will result from any Loan;

 

6.2.3no Default or Event of Default will have occurred and be continuing, and no Default or Event of Default will result from the making or permitting of an Loan;

 

 
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6.2.4the Lender will not have received a notice from any Person of any Priority Claims or of any other claims the effect of which under Applicable Law would be to make the Lender liable to that Person for the amount to be advanced, if that amount was advanced, including third party demands made by Canada Revenue Agency or the Internal Revenue Service and any notice of seizure of bank accounts or the credit balance in them from any Governmental Authority; and

 

6.2.5if any Obligor or Subsidiary of an Obligor is required to provide Security Documents to the Lender under Sections 7.1 or 9.1.17, those Security Documents will have been executed and delivered to the Lender, and those Security Documents or notices of them will have been duly registered, recorded or filed in all places and jurisdictions that the Lender or its counsel deem appropriate, all steps will have been taken to validly create, perfect, protect and preserve the Security Interests created by those Security Documents and to provide the Facility, the Outstanding Obligations and those Security Interests with the priority contemplated by this Agreement, and the Lender will have received evidence satisfactory to the Lender or its counsel of the completion of those registrations, recordings and filings and the full payment of all necessary registration, recording and filing fees for them.

 

6.3Waiver of a Condition Precedent

 

The conditions precedent set out in Sections 6.1 and 6.2 are for the sole benefit of the Lender and may be waived by the Lender, in whole or in part and with or without terms or conditions, relating to all or any portion of any Loan, without affecting the right of the Lender to require that those terms and conditions be satisfied in whole or in part relating to any other Loan.

 

Article 7
SECURITY DOCUMENTS

 

7.1Security Documents

 

7.1.1As general and continuing collateral security for the Outstanding Obligations for which they are liable, the Obligors will execute and deliver to and in favour of the Lender the following security documents and agreements to which they are a party, together with any relevant powers of attorney, registrations, filings and other supporting documents deemed necessary by the Lender and its counsel to perfect them or otherwise in respect of them (which, as confirmed, amended, extended, supplemented, restated or replaced at any time, together with any similar security documents and agreements provided under Sections 7.1 or 9.1.17, are collectively, the “Security Documents”), all in form and substance satisfactory to the Lender, acting reasonably:

 

7.1.1.1a general security agreement granted by each Obligor creating a first-ranking Security Interest over all of its present and after-acquired personal Property other than cash and present and future accounts receivable, which shall be subject to a prior ranking change in favour of Silicon Valley Bank or Bridge Bank only;

 

7.1.1.2

an investment property pledge agreement granted by each Obligor creating a first-ranking Security Interest in all present and after-acquired Equity Securities owned by that Obligor in its Subsidiaries;

   
  
7.1.1.3an Intellectual Property security agreement granted by each Obligor creating a first-ranking Security Interest in all of its present and after-acquired Intellectual Property Rights;

 

 
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7.1.1.4a code escrow agreement between Lender and Borrower in the form attached as Exhibit 7.1.1.4 (the “Software Escrow Agreement”);
   
7.1.1.5a three party escrow service agreement between Lender, Frankly Media LLC and Iron Mountain Intellectual Property Management, Inc. in the form attached as Exhibit 7.1.1.5 (the “Three Party Escrow Agreement”).

 

7.1.1.6an unlimited Guarantee by each Guarantor guaranteeing the payment and performance of the Borrower’s Obligations and including any additional representations, warranties and covenants required by the Lender; and

 

7.1.1.7an insurance transfer and consent, assigning the Insurance to the Lender as mortgagee, first loss payee and additional named insured as required by this Agreement;

 

7.1.1.8undertaking to provide landlord waivers in form and substance satisfactory to the Lender from each Obligor’s landlords, on a best efforts basis;

 

7.1.1.9If at any time after the Closing Date an Obligor creates or acquires a Subsidiary, or an Obligor becomes the holder of any Equity Securities of a Subsidiary of it, the applicable Obligor will:

 

7.1.1.9.1immediately provide the Lender with written notice of those circumstances, including all relevant details;

 

7.1.1.9.2promptly execute and deliver to the Lender, as general and continuing collateral security for the Outstanding Obligations for which it is liable, a Security Document substantially in the form described in Section 7.1.1.2 that creates a Security Interest in all of the Equity Securities in the Subsidiary owned by that Obligor; and

 

7.1.1.9.3cause that Subsidiary to promptly execute and deliver to the Lender, as general and continuing collateral security for the Outstanding Obligations for which it is liable, the Security Documents substantially in the form contemplated in Sections 7.1.1.1, 7.1.1.3, 7.1.1.6 and 7.1.1.7,

 

and the Security Documents contemplated by Sections 7.1.1.9.2 and 7.1.1.9.3 will be accompanied by any relevant powers of attorney, registrations, filings and other supporting documents deemed necessary by the Lender and its counsel to perfect them or otherwise in respect of them, and by any resolutions, certificates, legal opinions and other related documents that are reasonably requested by the Lender and consistent with the relevant forms and types of them delivered on the Closing Date.

 

 
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7.2Registration of Security Documents

 

Each Obligor will cooperate, and cause each other Obligor to cooperate, fully with the Lender and its counsel to register, record or file the Security Documents or notice of them in all places where, in the opinion of counsel for the Lender, acting reasonably, registration, recording or filing is necessary or desirable in order to perfect, protect or preserve the Security Interests created by the Security Documents, and each Obligor will also cooperate, and cause each other Obligor to cooperate, with any amendments to or renewals of those registrations, recordings and filings, and will do, or cause to be done, all other things as, in the opinion of counsel for the Lender, acting reasonably, are necessary or desirable to maintain for the Lender the rights, benefits and priority of the Security Documents and related Security Interests.

 

7.3Dealing With Security Documents

 

The Lender may grant extensions, take and give up any Security Documents or other security, accept compositions of, and grant releases and discharges of, any Security Documents or other security in whole or in part, and otherwise deal with any Obligor or any Loan Documents as the Lender may see fit, all without prejudice to the Outstanding Obligations or the rights, remedies, powers and recourses of the Lender under the Loan Documents. The taking of any Security Documents under this Agreement will not operate by way of merger of any of the Outstanding Obligations or any previously taken Security Documents.

 

7.4Permitted Liens

The fact that:

 

7.4.1an Obligor is permitted to create, or allow to exist, any Permitted Lien;

 

7.4.2any representation, warranty or covenant in this Agreement may make an exception for the existence of Permitted Liens; or

 

7.4.3the Security Interests created by the Security Documents are stated to be subject to, or are not required to rank in priority to, Permitted Liens,

 

will not in any manner, nor in any cause or proceeding, directly or indirectly, be taken to constitute a subordination of any Security Interests created by the Security Documents to any Permitted Lien or to any other Lien or other obligation of any kind, it being the intention of the Obligors and the Lender that all Security Interests created by the Security Documents will at all times, to the maximum extent permitted by Applicable Law (except as otherwise expressed herein), rank as first priority Security Interests in priority to Permitted Liens and all other Liens or obligations, except security interests granted to Silicon Valley Bank in Borrower’s cash and accounts receivable.

 

 
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Article 8
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

8.1Representations and Warranties

 

Each Obligor, for itself and for each other Obligor, makes the representations and warranties set out in this Section 8.1 to the Lender.

 

8.1.1Status and Powers, Authorization, Execution and Delivery, Enforceability and No Conflict.

 

8.1.1.1Each Obligor is duly organized or formed, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization.

 

8.1.1.2Each Obligor has the necessary power, authority and legal right to make, execute, deliver and perform its obligations under each Loan Document to which it is a party, and to borrow or guarantee, as applicable, under this Agreement, and each Obligor has the necessary power and authority to own and lease its Property and carry on its Business as now conducted, and is qualified to do business and is in good standing in every jurisdiction in which its ownership, lease or operation of Property or the conduct of its Business requires it to be qualified.

 

8.1.1.3The execution, delivery and performance by each Obligor of each Loan Document to which it is a party has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational and, if required, shareholder, action, and each Loan Document to which each Obligor is a party will, when delivered, have been duly executed and unconditionally delivered by it.
8.1.1.4Each Loan Document delivered on the Closing Date, and each other Loan Document to which each Obligor is a party, when executed and delivered by it, constitutes and will constitute a legal, valid and binding obligation of each Obligor, enforceable against it by the Lender in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by general principles of equity or by Insolvency Law.

 

8.1.1.5The execution, delivery and performance of each Loan Document to which each Obligor is a party does not and will not:

 

8.1.1.5.1violate any Applicable Law or any of its Constating Documents;

 

8.1.1.5.2be in conflict with, result in a breach of or constitute, alone or with notice or lapse of time or both, a default under, or give rise to any right to require prepayment, repurchase or redemption under, any material contract or any other indenture, agreement or instrument binding upon any Obligor or its Property; or

 

8.1.1.5.3result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on the Property of any Obligor, other than the Security Interests created by the Security Documents.

 

 
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8.1.2Approvals.

 

8.1.2.1No Authorization by, and no registration, filing or recording with, any Governmental Authority is or will be required in connection with the Loans under this Agreement or the making, execution, delivery or performance of the Loan Documents, except for:

 

8.1.2.1.1registrations, filings or recordings necessary to perfect the Security Interests in the Property granted by the Obligors in favour of the Lender; and

 

8.1.2.1.2those that have been made or obtained and are in full force and effect.

 

8.1.2.2Each Obligor has obtained or made all material consents, approvals, authorizations, declarations, registrations, filings, recordings, notices and other actions with Persons other than Governmental Authorities required in connection with the creation, execution, delivery and performance by it of the Loan Documents to which it is a party.

 

8.1.3Security Documents. Subject to Section 6.1.1.13, from and after the Closing Date and subject to any expressed exceptions in this Agreement, each Security Document granted by each Obligor will create in favour of the Lender valid, enforceable and perfected Security Interests in the Property of each Obligor ranking first in priority, subject only to any Permitted Liens having priority under Applicable Law and which have not been subordinated, provided that those Permitted Liens will not in any manner, or in any cause or proceeding, be taken to directly or indirectly constitute a subordination of any Security Interests created by the Security Documents to any Permitted Lien, it being the intention of the Parties that all Security Interests created by the Security Documents will at all times, to the maximum extent permitted by Applicable Law, rank as first priority Security Interests in priority to Permitted Liens and all other Liens or obligations.

 

8.1.4Financial Statements.

 

8.1.4.1The Financial Statements of the Borrower on a Consolidated Basis, audited and accompanied by the report of Collins Barrow, for the 2014 and 2015 Fiscal Years of the Borrower, copies of which have been provided to the Lender, are complete and correct and present fairly the consolidated financial position and results of the Borrower and the financial position and results of each Obligor, in all material respects as of that date and for that Fiscal Year.

 

8.1.4.2The Financial Statements referred to in Section 8.1.4.1 have been prepared in accordance with IFRS applied consistently throughout the periods involved, except as disclosed in them.

 

8.1.5No Material Adverse Changes. Since December 31, 2015, no Material Adverse Change has occurred.

 

8.1.6Litigation. Except as set out in Schedule 8.1.6, there are no actions, suits or proceedings, including any Tax-related matter, by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority pending against or threatened against or affecting any Obligor that, if adversely determined, could reasonably be expected to result in, either individually or in the aggregate, damages or other monetary claims that are uninsured and exceed.

 

8.1.7Compliance with Applicable Laws. Each Obligor has complied in all material respects with all Applicable Laws binding on it or its Business or Property. No Obligor has violated or failed to obtain any Authorization necessary for the ownership of any of its Property or the conduct of its Business.

 

8.1.8Organizational Structure. Schedule 8.1.8 correctly sets out:

 

8.1.8.1the corporate organizational structure of the Borrower, including its shareholders and Subsidiaries; and

 

8.1.8.2with respect to each Obligor: (i) its legal names (including any French and English name combinations); (ii) its form of legal entity; (iii) the Equity Securities it has authorized or issued and which are outstanding, including the names of (and number of shares or other Equity Securities held by) the registered and beneficial owners of those Equity Securities, and including any Debt convertible into any Equity Securities; (iv) the Equity Securities owned by it; (v) the jurisdictions of its organization and head office, and the location of its corporate records or minute books and of its share or unit registers; (vi) its Obligor Location; and (vii) the jurisdictions in which it carries on business or has assets (including receivables) having an aggregate value in excess of $30,000,000 (not including goodwill).

 

The Obligors do not have any Subsidiaries and any Subsidiaries created or acquired by any Obligor after the Closing Date will be identified to the Lender under Section 7.1.1.9.1.

 

8.1.9Equity Securities. Except as set out in Schedule 8.1.9:

 

8.1.9.1no Obligor owns any Equity Securities or any Debt which is convertible into, or exchangeable for, Equity Securities of any Person;

 

8.1.9.2all of the outstanding Equity Securities of each Obligor and any other Subsidiary owned by an Obligor are owned of record and beneficially by an Obligor, and all Equity Securities so owned are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, and are free and clear of all Liens; and

 

8.1.9.3there are no contractual restrictions on the ability of any Obligor or the Lender to sell, transfer or assign any of the Equity Securities owned by any Obligor.

 

8.1.10Taxes. Each Obligor has filed or caused to be filed when due all required Tax returns, and has paid or caused to be paid all Taxes required to have been paid under those Tax returns or under any assessments made against each Obligor or any of its Property, including all instalments with respect to the current period, and has made adequate provision for Taxes payable in the current period, except:

 

 
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8.1.10.1for Taxes that are payable or have been assessed:

 

8.1.10.1.1that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;

 

8.1.10.1.2for which an Obligor has set aside on its books adequate reserves in compliance with IFRS;

 

8.1.10.1.3relating to which no Tax Lien has been filed; and

 

8.1.10.1.4relating to which no Tax claim individually or collectively with all other similar claims in excess of $200,000 (and which could reasonably be expected to result in a Tax Lien arising or being filed) is being asserted against an Obligor; or

 

8.1.10.2as set out in Schedule 8.1.10.2.

 

8.1.11Title to and Location of Property.

 

8.1.11.1Each Obligor has good and marketable title in fee simple to, or valid leasehold title under valid and enforceable Real Property Leases to, all of its Real Property, which title is free and clear of all Liens except for Permitted Liens, and each Obligor owns or leases all Real Property used in connection with its Business. Schedule 8.1.11.1, together with any Replacement Schedule, sets out a complete and accurate list of all leased, subleased or owned Real Property of the Obligors, including correct legal descriptions and a list of all Real Property Leases to which any Obligor is a party.

 

8.1.11.2Each Obligor owns, or leases under valid and enforceable Operating Leases or Capital Leases, its personal Property free and clear of all Liens except for Permitted Liens, and owns or leases all personal Property used or acquired in connection with its Business. Schedule 8.1.11.2, together with any Replacement Schedule, sets out a complete and accurate list of all Operating Leases and Capital Leases with respect to each Obligor’s personal Property and sets out the locations of each Obligor’s personal Property.

 

8.1.11.3All of the tangible personal Property of the Obligors having an individual book value in excess of $200,000 is located in Weehawken, New Jersey.

 

8.1.12Leases. All rental and other payments required to be paid by any Obligor under any Real Property Leases, Operating Leases and Capital Leases have been paid when due, and all of those Real Property Leases, Operating Leases and Capital Leases are in full force and effect. No Obligor is in default under or breach of any Real Property Lease, Operating Lease or Capital Lease, or is aware of any default under or breach of any other party to them.

 

8.1.13Debt Defaults. No Obligor is in default of, and no event or circumstance has occurred which, but for the passage of time or the giving of notice, or both, would constitute a default under, any loan or loan agreement, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, security agreement or other instrument or agreement evidencing or pertaining to any Debt of any Obligor, except for any defaults that individually or in the aggregate do not exceed $250,000 at any time.

 

 
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8.1.14Insurance. All policies relating to Insurance:

 

8.1.14.1comply with all requirements of the Loan Documents, Applicable Law and all material contracts to which any Obligor is a party;

 

8.1.14.2are valid, in full force and effect, and enforceable; and
   
8.1.14.3provide adequate insurance coverage for the Property, Business and operations of the Obligors in at least those amounts and against at least those risks required under Section 9.1.16. All premiums with respect to all material policies of Insurance have been paid in accordance with their respective terms, and no notice of cancellation or termination has been received with respect to any of those policies.

 

8.1.15Environmental Matters. Except as set out in Schedule 8.1.15 or any Replacement Schedule:

 

8.1.15.1the Obligors are in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Environmental Laws;
8.1.15.2any Authorizations or notices required to be obtained or filed by each Obligor under Environmental Laws in connection with its Business, Property or operations have been obtained or filed;

 

8.1.15.3all Hazardous Materials generated at the Property of any Obligor have been treated, transported, stored and disposed of in accordance with all material requirements of Environmental Laws and Authorizations applicable to them;

 

8.1.15.4the Obligors have taken all reasonable steps necessary to determine, and have determined, that there has been no Release of Hazardous Materials and there has been no threatened Release of Hazardous Materials on or to any Property of any Obligor, other than in compliance in all material respects with Environmental Laws;

 

8.1.15.5there are no claims, notices of violation, notices of potential liability, requests for information, complaints, proceedings, investigations or actions by any Governmental Authority or any other Person pending or threatened against any Obligor under any Environmental Laws;

 

8.1.15.6no Obligor has agreed to assume, or accept responsibility by contract for, any liability of any Person under any Environmental Laws; and

 

8.1.15.7there are no facts, circumstances or conditions, including the Release of any Hazardous Materials, relating to the past or present Business, Property or operations of the Obligors or any of their predecessors in interest, that could reasonably be expected to result in any Obligor having or incurring any material claim or liability under any Environmental Laws.

 

 
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8.1.16Employee Matters.

 

8.1.16.1No Obligor, and no employee of any Obligor, is subject to any collective bargaining agreement. There are no strikes, slowdowns, work stoppages or other labour disputes pending or threatened in writing against any Obligor that could reasonably be expected to result in, either individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

8.1.16.2Each Pension Plan, and each employee benefit, fringe benefit, supplemental unemployment benefit, bonus, incentive, profit sharing, termination, change of control, compensation, retirement, salary continuation, stock option, stock purchase, stock appreciation, health, welfare, medical, dental, accident, disability, life insurance or other plan, arrangement, agreement, program, policy, practice or undertaking that is sponsored or maintained by any Obligor for the benefit of its employees and former employees who are or were employed in Canada, and their respective beneficiaries, is in compliance with Applicable Law, including the Income Tax Act and any federal or provincial pension benefits standards legislation, and is being administered in compliance with its terms.

 

8.1.16.3Each Obligor has withheld from all payments to each of its officers, directors and employees the amount of all Taxes, Pension Plan contributions, employment insurance premiums and other payments and deductions that it is required to withhold under Applicable Law, and has paid or remitted those amounts to the appropriate Governmental Authority in accordance with Applicable Law. No Obligor is subject to any Priority Claim arising from those withholdings that does not constitute a Permitted Lien.

 

8.1.17Intellectual Property Rights. All Intellectual Property owned or licensed by any Obligor, and all rights of any Obligor to the use of any Intellectual Property owned by and licensed from others, in each case that is material to the present and planned future conduct of the Business of that Obligor, are set out in Schedule 8.1.17 (collectively, the “Intellectual Property Rights”). Except as set out in Schedule 8.1.17 or any Replacement Schedule, no material claim has been asserted and is pending by any Person with respect to the use by any Obligor of any Intellectual Property Rights or challenging the validity, enforceability or effectiveness of any Intellectual Property Rights necessary for the conduct of the Business of the Obligors taken as a whole. Except as set out in Schedule 8.1.17:

 

8.1.17.1each Obligor owns, licenses or possesses the right to use all Intellectual Property that is necessary for the operation of its Business as currently conducted and as proposed to be conducted, free and clear of all Liens, except for Permitted Liens, and restrictions;

 

8.1.17.2all necessary applications and registrations for Intellectual Property Rights of each Obligor are current; and

 

8.1.17.3the conduct of each Obligor’s Business does not infringe the Intellectual Property of any other Person.

 

 
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Except for the filing with a register maintained under the legislative or regulatory authority of a Governmental Authority, or with a register maintained by an authority established by a treaty (such as the European Patent Convention) where the purpose of the register is to maintain records of documents received by the legislative or regulatory authority and relating to Intellectual Property registrations or applications for Intellectual Property registration, and except as has been already made or obtained, in relation to the Intellectual Property Rights no authorization, approval or other action by, and no notice to or filing with, any register is required for the grant by any Obligor of the Liens under the Security Documents, the execution, delivery or performance of the Security Documents to which each Obligor is a party, or the perfection or the exercise by the Lender of its rights and remedies under the Security Documents.

 

8.1.18Software. Each Obligor is the sole legal and beneficial owner of, and has good and marketable title to, or is a licensee of, all of the computer software, other than operating systems software, running on its computer systems. Each Obligor has the right to use all software used by it and has not granted any licence or other rights to any other Person in respect of that software which could interfere with its rights. Except as set out in Schedule 8.1.18, each Obligor possesses the object code and user manuals for all software used by it, and the source code and all documentation required for effective use of it.

 

8.1.19Other Representations. Each representation and warranty made by an Obligor in any Loan Document to which it is a party is true and correct in all material respects.

 

8.1.20No Event of Default. No Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

 

8.2Repetition of Representations and Warranties

 

Without limiting Section 8.3, the representations and warranties set out in Section 8.1 will be deemed to be made by each Obligor, for itself and for each other Obligor, on each date of advance of such Loan based on the facts and circumstances then existing, and in the case of representations and warranties relating to a Subsidiary that becomes an Obligor after the date of this Agreement, on the date it becomes an Obligor, except that any representation or warranty expressly relating to a specific date shall only be true and correct as of such date.

 

8.3Survival of Representations and Warranties

 

The representations and warranties set out in Section 8.1 will survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement until all Outstanding Obligations have been fulfilled and the Lender has no further obligations under any Loan Documents, and the Lender will be entitled to rely, and will be deemed to have relied, upon the representations and warranties set out in Section 8.1 in making any advance available under this Agreement, regardless of any investigation or examination made by the Lender or its counsel.

Article 9
COVENANTS

 

9.1Positive Covenants

 

So long as this Agreement is in force, any Outstanding Obligations remain outstanding or the Lender has any obligations under any Loan Documents, each Obligor covenants and agrees with the Lender that, unless the Lender otherwise expressly agrees in writing, it will, and it will cause each other Obligor to, comply with the covenants and agreements set out in this Section 9.1.

 

 
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9.1.1Financial Reporting. The Obligors will prepare and deliver to the Lender, in a form satisfactory to the Lender, acting reasonably:

 

9.1.1.1as soon as available and in any event within 120 days after the end of each Fiscal Year of the relevant Obligor:

 

9.1.1.1.1

annual audited Financial Statements of the Borrower on a Consolidated Basis, together with a management discussion and analysis relating to the Financial Statements and an auditor’s report prepared by an internationally recognized independent firm of chartered accountants selected by the board of directors of the Borrower, containing the auditor’s confirmation that its examinations of those Financial Statements were made in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and the auditor’s opinion that those Financial Statements present fairly in all material respects, as applicable, the consolidated and unconsolidated financial position of the Borrower as of the close of each Fiscal Year, and the results of its operations and changes in financial position for the Fiscal Year then ended, in accordance with IFRS;

 

each certified to be true and in accordance with IFRS by a Responsible Officer of the relevant Obligor;

 

9.1.1.2as soon as available and in any event within 60 days after the end of each of the first three Fiscal Quarters of each Fiscal Year of the Obligors, quarterly unaudited Financial Statements of the Borrower on a Consolidated Basis as at the end of each of those Fiscal Quarters, each prepared in accordance with IFRS and certified to be true and in accordance with IFRS by a Responsible Officer of the relevant Obligor;

 

9.1.1.3as soon as available and in any event within 30 days of the end of each month other than a month which is the last month in a Fiscal Quarter, monthly unaudited balance sheet, statement of income, statement of retained earnings and statement of cash flow of the Borrower on a Consolidated Basis prepared in accordance with IFRS and certified to be true and in accordance with IFRS by a Responsible Officer of the relevant Obligor;

 

9.1.1.4concurrently with the Financial Statements and other information referred to in Sections 9.1.1.1 and 9.1.1.2, a duly executed and completed Compliance Certificate relating to the Fiscal Year or Fiscal Quarter, as applicable, of each Obligor being reported upon, certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower;

 

9.1.1.5within 30 days of the start of each Fiscal Year, an annual budget in reasonable detail including monthly income and expenses; and

 

9.1.1.6promptly upon any reasonable request by the Lender, any other information regarding the Property, operations, Business, legal or corporate affairs and financial position of any Obligor, or compliance with the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

 

 
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9.1.2Prompt Payment. The Borrower will pay to the Lender when due all principal, interest, fees, expenses and other amounts owing by the Borrower to the Lender under this Agreement, on the dates and in the manner provided by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, without set off or deduction of any kind.

 

9.1.3Existence and Good Standing. Each Obligor will do or cause to be done all things reasonably necessary to preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect and in good standing its legal existence in its jurisdiction of formation or organization, and do or cause to be done all things reasonably necessary to preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect and in good standing its registration in every other jurisdiction in which the nature of its Business or activities, or the character of any of its material Property, make that registration necessary.

 

9.1.4Conduct of Business. Each Obligor will manage and operate its Business:

 

9.1.4.1in all material respects in accordance with prudent industry practice and in compliance with the terms and provisions of all Material Permits; and

 

9.1.4.2in compliance with all Applicable Laws of the jurisdictions in which its Business is carried on.

 

9.1.5Applicable Laws. Each Obligor will comply in a timely manner with all Applicable Laws and will obtain, preserve and keep in force all Material Permits required by it to properly conduct its Business and to own, operate, lease or license its Property.

 

9.1.6Anti-Money Laundering Legislation. Each Obligor will promptly upon request:

 

9.1.6.1provide to the Lender all information, including supporting documentation and other evidence, as reasonably requested by it or any prospective assignee of it, that may be required by the Lender or prospective assignee to obtain, verify and record information regarding an Obligor, an Obligor’s directors, authorized signing officers, direct or indirect shareholders or unitholders or other Persons in control of the Obligor, and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, or to otherwise comply with any applicable Anti-Money Laundering Legislation; and

 

9.1.6.2notify the recipient of that information of any changes to it.

 

9.1.7Use of Loans. The proceeds of the Loans provided under the Facility will be used solely for the purposes set out in Section 2.2.

 

9.1.8Payment Obligations. Each Obligor will pay its obligations before they are delinquent or in default, except if:

 

9.1.8.1the validity or amount of those obligations is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings; and

 

9.1.8.2it has, if required, set aside on its books adequate reserves with respect to those obligations in accordance with IFRS.

 

 
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9.1.9Maintenance of Property and Intellectual Property Rights. Each Obligor will:

 

9.1.9.1operate, maintain and preserve in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, all Property necessary for the proper conduct of its Business, and make or cause to be made all repairs, additions and improvements to, and renewals and replacements of, that Property necessary or desirable for the conduct of its Business;

 

9.1.9.2do or cause to be done all things necessary to obtain, preserve, renew, extend and keep in full force and effect and in good standing all Authorizations and all rights, licences, privileges, franchises and Intellectual Property Rights material to the conduct of its Business; and

 

9.1.9.3protect, defend and maintain the validity and enforceability of its Intellectual Property Rights, and not allow any Intellectual Property owned, licensed or used in its Business to be abandoned, forfeited or dedicated to the public.

 

9.1.10Notice Provisions. Each Obligor will promptly and, unless otherwise provided, in any event within five days after any Obligor becomes aware of any event set out in this Section 9.1.10, provide the Lender with notice of:

 

9.1.10.1the occurrence of a Default or Event of Default, together with a statement of a Responsible Officer of the relevant Obligor setting out the details of that Default or Event of Default and the action that the Obligors propose to take or have taken with respect to it;

 

9.1.10.2the receipt by any Obligor of any official notice of violation or non-compliance from, or claim made by, any Governmental Authority relating to any Obligor or any of its Property;

 

9.1.10.3any breach or default by any Obligor under, termination of, or material amendment to, any Material Contract;

 

9.1.10.4the receipt of any notice of material breach or default by any Obligor from, or the taking of any other material action by:

 

9.1.10.4.1any Person to whom any Obligor owes Debt in an amount in excess of $250,000; or

 

9.1.10.4.2any landlord under a Real Property Lease,

 

in each case together with a statement of a Responsible Officer of the relevant Obligor setting out the details of that breach or default and the action that the Obligors propose to take or have taken with respect to it;

 

9.1.10.5the institution of, or any material adverse development in, any action, suit, proceeding, investigation or arbitration before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority by any Person against any Obligor or any of its Property claiming in excess of $500,000;

 

9.1.10.6any Material Adverse Change.

 

9.1.11Change in Jurisdiction or Name. Each Obligor will, not less than 30 days before the change occurs, provide the Lender with written notice of any change by any Obligor of its Obligor Location, or of the location of its “registered office”, “chief place of business”, “principal place of business”, or any change by any Obligor of its corporate, partnership or trust name, as applicable.

 

 
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9.1.12Environmental Reporting. Each Obligor will promptly, and in any event within 15 days of each occurrence, notify the Lender of any civil, criminal or regulatory proceeding before, or investigation or order of, any Governmental Authority or other Person requiring any Obligor to comply with or take action under any Environmental Laws, and of any state of affairs that contravene Environmental Laws on any Real Property owned or leased by, or relating to any Business of, any Obligor, and of any Release from any Real Property owned or leased by any Obligor into the Natural Environment, and any similar environmental occurrence.

 

9.1.13Environmental Compliance. Each Obligor will:

 

9.1.13.1immediately rectify as and to the extent required by Environmental Laws any breach or failure of it to comply with any Environmental Laws or any Material Permits issued under Environmental Laws, or any Release of any Hazardous Materials from its Property or caused by any Obligor, and will immediately comply with all applicable orders and Material Permits issued by any Governmental Authority with respect to the Natural Environment; and

 

9.1.13.2comply with all Environmental Laws.

 

9.1.14Taxes and Priority Claims. Each Obligor will:

 

9.1.14.1in a timely manner and in compliance with Applicable Laws, file all Tax returns required to be filed by it with applicable Governmental Authorities, on or before their respective due dates, and withhold, collect and remit all Taxes that it is required to collect, withhold or remit; and

 

9.1.14.2pay and discharge promptly when due all Taxes and Priority Claims imposed upon it or upon its Property or any part of it, as well as all claims of any kind (including claims for labour, materials and supplies) that, if unpaid, would by law become a Lien, other than a Permitted Lien, upon any of its Property.

 

9.1.15Books and Records and Inspection. Each Obligor will:

 

9.1.15.1keep proper books of record and account containing full and accurate entries of all dealings and transactions relating to its Property, Business and operations in a manner sufficient to enable the preparation of Financial Statements as required by this Agreement; and

 

 
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9.1.15.2permit representatives designated by the Lender, upon reasonable prior notice and during normal business hours, to visit and inspect its Property, examine and make extracts from its books and records, and discuss its affairs, finances and condition with its officers and independent accountants.

 

9.1.16Insurance. Each Obligor will:

 

9.1.16.1maintain or cause to be maintained insurance with respect to its Property, Business and operations against all liabilities, casualties, risks and contingencies, of the types, including business interruption, “all risks” property damage, boiler and machinery, third party liability, professional liability and flood insurance, and in the amounts customary for Persons engaged in the same or similar businesses and similarly situated, without co-insurance and in accordance with any requirements of any Governmental Authority (collectively, the “Insurance”). All policies of Insurance will be in form and substance acceptable to the Lender, acting reasonably, and will be underwritten by financially sound and reputable insurance companies that are acceptable to the Lender;

 

9.1.16.2in the case of any fire, accident or other casualty causing material damage or loss to any of its Property, or if otherwise required by Applicable Law, apply all proceeds of Insurance to repairing or replacing the damaged or destroyed Property, provided that if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or the uninsured or insured loss is greater than $500,000, all proceeds of that Insurance will only be used as directed by the Lender in its sole discretion;

 

9.1.16.3maintain Insurance with respect to its Property in an amount no less than the replacement value of the Property insured, endorsed in favour of the Lender as a first loss payee and first mortgagee. The Lender will be named as first mortgagee in accordance with the Insurance Bureau of Canada’s standard mortgage clause (or an alternative form of mortgage clause satisfactory to the Lender, acting reasonably) with respect to all Real Property owned by the Obligors, as first loss payee with respect to all other Property of the Obligors, and as an additional insured with respect to all liability policies maintained by the Obligors. The Insurance will provide that the insurer make commercially reasonable efforts to provide at least 30 days’ notice to the Lender of any changes to the Insurance and that the Insurance will not be cancelled or terminated without at least 30 days’ notice being given by the insurer to the Lender. Evidence of the giving of that notice will be the responsibility of the insurer in each case;

 

9.1.16.4as soon as practicable following the happening of any damage or loss to its Property subject to any Insurance, at its expense, furnish or cause to be furnished all proof of damage or loss and do all acts required to enable the Person entitled to receipt of the proceeds of that Insurance under this Section 9.1.16 to obtain payment of those proceeds;

 

9.1.16.5ensure that all policies of Insurance, where applicable, contain a release of any subrogation rights that its insurers may have against the Lender or those for whom it is in law responsible;

 

9.1.16.6deliver in writing to the Lender, at any time, upon reasonable request by the Lender, evidence of all Insurance required to be maintained by the Obligors under this Section 9.1.16 together with a summary of the coverage provided by that Insurance, and all other information relating to the Insurance and all monies payable to each Obligor under it. The Lender will be entitled, at any time, to inspect and to make copies of any books, papers, documents or records evidencing or relating to the Insurance; and

 

 
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9.1.16.7immediately provide the Lender with a certified copy of each policy of Insurance within 90 days of the Closing Date, together with a certified copy of each renewal policy of Insurance and of each policy of Insurance issued in replacement of or in substitution for any policy of Insurance within 30 days of the renewal, replacement or substitution.

 

9.1.17Further Assurances. At its own expense and promptly at the reasonable request of the Lender, each Obligor will:

 

9.1.17.1cure or cause to be cured all defects in the content, execution, delivery, validity or enforceability of any Loan Document to which it is a party or any other document contemplated by or created under any Loan Document;

 

9.1.17.2execute and deliver or cause to be executed and delivered to the Lender all other documents, agreements and instruments, and do or cause to be done all other acts as may be necessary or desirable in the reasonable opinion of the Lender to better carry out the provisions and purposes of the Loan Documents, including filing financing statements or other documents and effecting registrations under any Applicable Law with respect to the Security Interests created by the Security Documents; and

 

9.1.17.3obtain any consents or acknowledgements reasonably required by the Lender.

 

9.2Financial Covenants

 

So long as this Agreement is in force, any Outstanding Obligations remain outstanding or the Lender has any obligations under any Loan Documents, each Obligor covenants and agrees with the Lender that, unless the Lender otherwise expressly agrees in writing, it will, and it will cause each other Obligor to, comply with the financial covenants set out in this Section 9.2.

 

9.2.1Total Leverage Ratio. Beginning with the Fiscal Quarter ending December 31, 2017, the Borrower will not permit the Total Leverage Ratio as of the last day of the Fiscal Quarter to be greater than the following:

 

Fiscal Quarter ending  Total Leverage Ratio
12/31/2017  4.00:1.00
3/31/2018  3.50:1.00
6/30/2018  3.50:1.00
9/30/2018  3.50:1.00
12/31/2018  3.00:1.00
3/31/2019  3.00:1.00
6/30/2019  3.00:1.00
9/30/2019  3.00:1.00
12/31/2019  3.00:1.00
Thereafter  2.50:1.00

 

 
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9.2.2Interest Coverage Ratio. Beginning with the Fiscal Quarter ending December 31, 2017, the Borrower will not permit the Interest Coverage Ratio as of the last day of the Fiscal Quarter to be less than the following:

 

Fiscal Quarter ending  Interest Coverage Ratio
12/31/2017  2.00:1.00
3/31/2018  2.00:1.00
6/30/2018  2.00:1.00
9/30/2018  2.00:1.00
12/31/2018  2.00:1.00
3/31/2019  3.00:1.00
6/30/2019  3.00:1.00
9/30/2019  3.00:1.00
12/31/2019  3.00:1.00
Thereafter  3.50:1.00

 

9.3Negative Covenants

 

So long as this Agreement is in force, any Outstanding Obligations remain outstanding or the Lender has any obligations under any Loan Documents, each Obligor covenants and agrees with the Lender that, unless the Lender otherwise expressly agrees in writing, it will, and it will cause each other Obligor to, comply with the negative covenants and agreements set out in this Section 9.2.

 

9.3.1Nature of Business. No Obligor will enter into any business either directly or through any Subsidiary except for the business in which it is engaged on the date of this Agreement, provided that the foregoing will not prohibit an Obligor from entering or otherwise engaging in any business or activities that relate to the creation, sale, licensing or other distribution of content, content management systems, computer programs, mobile and OTT applications, advertising, advertising sales, data collection, data analysis and any services related to the foregoing.

 

 
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9.3.2Limitation on Liens. No Obligor will create, incur, assume or allow any Lien on or relating to all or any part of its Property, whether now owned or later acquired, except for Permitted Liens.

 

9.3.3Fundamental Changes. No Obligor will enter into any amalgamation, merger or consolidation with any other Person, liquidate, wind-up or dissolve itself or any other Obligor, allow the liquidation or dissolution of itself or any other Obligor, convey, sell, lease, transfer, assign or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its Property or Business, sell, transfer, assign or otherwise dispose of any Equity Securities in any of its Subsidiaries, permit the issuance of any Equity Securities in any of its Subsidiaries to any Person, enter into any partnership with any Person that is not an Obligor, or make any material change in its present method of conducting business, except for any Permitted Fundamental Change.
9.3.4Restrictions on Dispositions. No Obligor will convey, sell, lease, transfer, assign or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its Property or Business, whether now owned or later acquired, or issue or sell any Equity Securities of any of its Subsidiaries not subject to the Security Interests created by the Security Documents, except for any Permitted Disposition.

 

9.3.5Debt. No Obligor will create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Debt other than Permitted Debt.

 

9.3.6Limitation on Optional Payments and Modifications of Debt Instruments. No Obligor will make any optional payment or prepayment on, or redemption, defeasance or purchase of, any Debt (other than any Outstanding Obligations), or amend, or consent to any amendment of, any of the terms relating to the payment or prepayment of principal, interest or fees relating to, any of that Debt.

 

9.3.7Distributions. No Obligor will declare, pay or make, or agree to pay or make, any Distributions except for Permitted Distributions.

 

9.3.8Transactions with Related Parties. No Obligor will enter into any transaction, purchase, sale, lease, or exchange of Property with, or render any service to, any Related Party, other than in connection with a Permitted Fundamental Change, a Permitted Investment, a Permitted Acquisition or any transaction, purchase, sale, lease, exchange or service that is in the ordinary course of the Obligor’s Business and upon fair and reasonable terms no less favourable to it than it would apply to a comparable Arm’s Length transaction with a Person that is not a Related Party.

 

9.3.9Corporate Structure. No Obligor will change, or participate in a change in, the ownership and organizational structure of the Obligors from that set out in Schedule 8.1.8, except for a Permitted Fundamental Change.

 

9.3.10Equity Securities. No Obligor will issue any Equity Securities other than to another Obligor or in connection with such Obligor’s Equity Incentive Plan, or create any other Subsidiary, unless it has provided not less than 30 days’ prior written notice to the Lender.

 

9.3.11Business Outside Certain Jurisdictions. No Obligor will have any place of business or keep or store any tangible personal Property having a value in excess of $250,000 in the aggregate in, or change its Obligor Location to, any jurisdiction in which the Lender does not have a perfected Security Interest, unless it has:

 

 

 
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9.3.11.1given 30 days’ prior written notice of the new jurisdiction to the Lender; and

 

9.3.11.2done or caused to be done all acts and things and executed and delivered or caused to be executed and delivered all agreements, deeds, transfers, assignments and instruments as the Lender may reasonably require for perfecting, protecting and registering the Security Interests in favour of the Lender in the new jurisdiction.

 

9.3.12Acquisitions. No Obligor will make any Acquisition other than a Permitted Acquisition or a Permitted Investment.

 

9.3.13Limitation on Investments. No Obligor will make or permit to exist any Investment, except for a Permitted Investment.

 

9.3.14Fiscal Year. No Obligor will permit the Fiscal Year end of any Obligor to end on any day other than December 31.

 

9.3.15Amendments. No Obligor will allow any amendments to its Constating Documents that are adverse to the Lender’s interests or the Security Interests under the Security Documents, or allow any amendments to, or grant any waivers relating to, material contracts or any Guarantee or security in respect of them that could reasonably be expected to be adverse to the Lender’s interests.

 

9.3.16Limitation on Risk Management Transactions. No Obligor will enter into any Risk Management Transaction without the prior written consent of the Lender.

 

9.3.17Limitation on Sale and Leaseback Transactions. No Obligor will enter into any arrangement, directly or indirectly, with any Person under which it will sell, assign or otherwise transfer any Property having an aggregate fair market value in excess of $250,000 in any Fiscal Year of the Borrower, whether now owned or later acquired, and under which it will, at or after that time, lease or rent as lessee that Property or any part of it or other Property that it intends to use for substantially the same purpose as the Property sold, assigned or otherwise transferred.

 

Article 10
EVENTS OF DEFAULT

 

10.1Events of Default

 

The occurrence of any one or more of the following events or conditions will be an event of default under this Agreement (“Event of Default”):

 

10.1.1the Borrower defaults in the due and punctual payment of the principal amount, or any part of the principal amount, of any Loan under the Loan Documents when that amount becomes due and payable, whether on the Maturity Date or otherwise;

 

10.1.2the Borrower defaults in the due and punctual payment of any interest owing under the Loan Documents as and when they become due and payable and that default continues for a period of 5 Business Days;

 

 
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10.1.35 Business Days an Obligor defaults in payment when due of any of the Outstanding Obligations that require the payment of money by it to the Lender, other than amounts referred to in Sections 10.1.1 and 10.1.2;

 

10.1.4an Obligor fails to observe or perform any agreement, covenant, condition or obligation applicable to it under this Agreement or any other Loan Document (including, for certainty the Software Escrow Agreement and the Three Party Escrow Agreement), other than an agreement or a covenant, condition or obligation the breach or default in performance of which is specifically dealt with elsewhere in this Article 10, and the Obligor fails to remedy that Default within 30 days from the earlier of the date that:

 

10.1.4.1it becomes aware of the Default; and
   
10.1.4.2the Lender delivers written notice of the Default to that Obligor, specifying the Default and requiring that it be remedied;

 

10.1.5except as permitted by this Agreement or with the prior written consent of the Lender, there is any change in the ownership of the Equity Securities of an Obligor (excluding the publicly held shares of Borrower, or an Obligor amalgamates, merges or consolidates with any other Person, or an Obligor sells or otherwise disposes of all or substantially all of its assets out of the ordinary course of business;
   
10.1.6any representation or warranty made by an Obligor in any Loan Document, or in any officer’s certificate or other document delivered to the Lender under any Loan Document, or any statement certified in any certificate provided by or on behalf of an Obligor, is found to be false or incorrect in any way which makes it materially misleading when made or deemed to have been made;
   
10.1.7an Obligor defaults in the observance or performance of any covenant, condition or obligation contained in any agreement between the Obligor and any Person, if that default gives rise to a right to enforce security against the Obligor;
   
10.1.8an Obligor fails to:
   
10.1.8.1make any payment when it is due and payable to any Person in relation to any Debt that in the aggregate principal amount then outstanding is in excess of $250,000; or
   
10.1.8.2observe or perform any other agreement or condition relating to any Debt that in the aggregate principal amount then outstanding is in excess of $250,000, or contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating to that Debt, or any other event occurs or condition exists that causes or permits the holder of that Debt to cause it to become due before its stated maturity date;

 

10.1.9an Obligor admits its inability to pay its Debts generally as they become due or otherwise acknowledges its insolvency;

 

10.1.10an Obligor ceases or threatens to cease to carry on its Business;

 

 
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10.1.11an Obligor institutes any proceeding or takes any action or executes any agreement to authorize its participation in or the commencement of any proceeding:

 

10.1.11.1seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent; or

 

10.1.11.2seeking liquidation, dissolution, winding-up, reorganization, arrangement, protection, relief or composition of it or any of its Property or Debt or making a proposal for it under any Applicable Law, including any Insolvency Law, and also including any application for reorganization, arrangement or compromise of Debt under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, organization, formation or otherwise;

 

10.1.12any proceeding is commenced against or otherwise affects an Obligor:

 

10.1.12.1seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent;

 

10.1.12.2seeking liquidation, dissolution, winding-up, reorganization, arrangement, protection, relief or composition of it or any of its Property or Debt or making a proposal for it under any Applicable Law, including any Insolvency Law, and also including any application for reorganization, arrangement or compromise of Debt under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation, organization, formation or otherwise; or

 

10.1.12.3seeking the appointment of a receiver, trustee, agent, custodian or other similar official for it or for any of its Property;

 

10.1.13any judgment or order for the payment of money in excess of $250,000 is rendered against an Obligor and either enforcement proceedings have been commenced by any Person upon that judgment or order, or there is any period during which a stay of enforcement of that judgment or order, by reason of a pending appeal or otherwise, will not be in effect;

 

10.1.14any execution, distress or other enforcement process, whether by court order or otherwise, becomes enforceable against any Property of an Obligor;

 

10.1.15any proceeding is commenced or action is taken with respect to an Obligor or any part of its Property in any jurisdiction outside Canada that has an effect equivalent or similar to any of the events or proceedings described in Sections 10.1.11 to 10.1.14 inclusive;

 

10.1.16any adverse change occurs in the financial condition or prospects of an Obligor that, in the sole opinion of the Lender, is likely to impair to a material extent the ability of the Borrower or any other Obligor to pay the Outstanding Obligations payable by it or, in the sole opinion of the Lender, is likely to put any of the Security Documents in jeopardy or otherwise have a Material Adverse Effect;

 

10.1.17after execution and delivery of it, any Loan Document ceases to be in full force and effect (unless within 5 Business Days of notice of those circumstances being delivered by the Lender to the relevant Obligor that Loan Document is again in full force and effect as if it had always had full force and effect), or any Loan Document is declared by a court or tribunal of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, or the validity or enforceability of it is contested by an Obligor, or an Obligor denies in writing that it has any further liability or obligations under a Loan Document;

 

 
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10.1.18any action, event or situation, other than as set out in Section 10.1.16, occurs that has a Material Adverse Effect;

 

10.1.19any material Insurance coverage of any Obligor lapses and that coverage is not reinstated within 48 hours of that lapse;

 

10.1.20the occurrence of any of the following events with respect to a Pension Plan:

 

10.1.20.1any steps are taken by an Obligor or any Governmental Authority to terminate a Pension Plan, in whole or in part, if as a result of that termination an Obligor may be required to make an additional contribution to that Pension Plan, or to incur an additional liability or obligation to that Pension Plan, equal to or in excess of $250,000 of the equivalent of that amount in another currency; or

 

10.1.20.2a contribution failure with respect to a Pension Plan sufficient to give rise to a Lien under any Applicable Law; or

 

10.1.21change in the ownership of any Obligor (other than the Borrower) or a change in the ownership of the common shares of the Borrower resulting in any person or group of persons acting together holding, directly or indirectly, individually or collectively, a majority of the votes attached to the outstanding voting shares of the Borrower, except for any circumstance where such person is the Lender or such person acts in concert with the Lender, and the Borrower remains a reporting issuer.

 

10.2Acceleration and Remedies

 

10.2.1Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, the Lender may do any one or more of the following, all of which are authorized by each Obligor:
10.2.1.1by written notice to the Borrower, declare the Facility to be terminated, at which time they will terminate immediately and the Lender will have no further obligation to make any Loan available to the Borrower under the Facility;
10.2.1.2by written notice to the Borrower, declare all of the Borrower’s Obligations (whether matured or not matured), to be immediately due and payable without further demand, presentation, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are expressly waived by the Borrower, and the Borrower will immediately deliver any cash collateral security required by the Lender under this Agreement;
10.2.1.3by written notice to the Guarantors, declare all Guaranteed Obligations and all costs and expenses of the Lender under this Agreement for which the Guarantors are liable, along with any other sums payable by the Guarantors to the Lender under the Loan Documents, to be immediately due and payable without further demand or other notice of any kind, all of which are expressly waived by the Guarantors, and demand payment of all amounts owing by them under the Loan Documents to which they are a party;
10.2.1.4without notice, set off and consolidate, and apply, any or all deposits and any other Debt at any time held by or owing to any Obligor by the Lender against and on account of the Outstanding Obligations, whether or not due and payable and whether or not the Lender has made demand for them;

 

10.2.1.5as and by way of collateral security, deposit and retain in an account maintained by the Lender, bearing interest at the rates of the Lender applicable to other deposits of similar amounts for similar terms, amounts received by the Lender from any Obligor, or as proceeds of realization of any Security Documents or Security Interest, to the extent those amounts may be required to satisfy any Outstanding Obligations;

 

10.2.1.6realize upon the Security Documents and any other security that secures any Outstanding Obligations; and

 

10.2.1.7exercise any other action, suit, remedy or proceeding authorized or permitted by the Loan Documents or by Applicable Law, including specifically performing any covenant or agreement contained in the Loan Documents, enjoining any violation of any of the terms of the Loan Documents, exercising any power granted by the Loan Documents or by Applicable Law, or obtaining judgment for and recovering all amounts due and owing relating to the Outstanding Obligations.

 

10.3Application of Proceeds of Realization

 

Despite any other provision of this Agreement, the proceeds realized from the exercise by the Lender of its powers, rights and remedies under the Loan Documents will be distributed in the following order:

 

10.3.1first, in payment of all costs and expenses, including legal, accounting, receivers’ and other similar fees and disbursements, incurred by the Lender in connection with that realization;

 

10.3.2second, in payment of all Liens or claims ranking in priority to the Security Interests created by the Security Documents;

 

10.3.3third, against payment of the Outstanding Obligations; and

 

10.3.4fourth, if all Outstanding Obligations have been paid in full, any surplus proceeds will be paid in accordance with Applicable Law.

 

10.4Waivers

 

No delay on the part of the Lender in exercising any power, right or remedy under any Loan Document will operate as a waiver of that power, right or remedy, no waiver of any Default or Event of Default will operate as a waiver of that Default or Event of Default unless made in writing and signed by an authorized officer of the Lender, and any single or partial exercise by the Lender of any power, right or remedy for a Default or Event of Default will not be deemed to be a waiver of or to alter, affect or prejudice any other power, right or remedy to which the Lender may be lawfully entitled relating to that Default or Event of Default. No written waiver will preclude the exercise by the Lender of any power, right or remedy under any Loan Document other than relating to the specific action or inaction covered by that waiver and strictly in accordance with the terms of that waiver, or extend to or apply to any other Default or Event of Default. The Lender will not be deemed to have waived, by reason of making available any Loan under this Agreement, any Default or Event of Default, including any Default or Event of Default arising from any representation or warranty made or deemed to have been made in any Loan Document proving to be false or incorrect.

 

 
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10.5Non-Merger

 

Any judgment obtained, or any action or proceeding taken, by the Lender under any Loan Document will not operate as a merger of any Outstanding Obligations of any Obligor to the Lender, or in any way suspend payment or affect or prejudice the powers, rights and remedies, legal or equitable, that the Lender may have in connection with the Outstanding Obligations. The surrender or cancellation of, or any other dealings with, any Security Documents will not release or affect the Outstanding Obligations of the Obligors under any of the Loan Documents.

 

10.6Lender May Perform Covenants

 

If an Obligor fails to perform any covenant or agreement on its part in this Agreement, the Lender may, but is not required to, on 10 days’ notice to that Obligor, perform that covenant or agreement if it is capable of being performed by the Lender, and if that covenant or agreement requires the payment of money the Lender may, but is not required to, make that payment with its own funds. All amounts paid by the Lender under this Section 10.6 will be repaid by the Borrower on demand for payment, and will bear interest at 12% per annum commencing on the day of payment of those amounts by the Lender, calculated daily and payable on demand.

 

10.7Grant of Licence

 

To enable the Lender to exercise its powers, rights and remedies under this Article 10 when the Lender is entitled to do so, and for no other purpose, each Obligor grants to the Lender an irrevocable licence, exercisable without payment of royalty or other compensation to it, to use, assign or sublicense any or all of its Intellectual Property Rights, and that licence will include reasonable access to all media in which any of the licensed items may be recorded or stored and to all computer programs used for the compilation or printout of them.

 

Article 11
General

11.1Time of Essence

 

Time is of the essence in all respects of this Agreement.

 

11.2Notices

 

Except as otherwise expressly provided for in this Agreement, any Communication must be in writing and either:

 

11.2.1delivered personally or by courier;

 

11.2.2sent by prepaid registered mail; or

 

11.2.3transmitted by facsimile, e-mail or functionally equivalent electronic means of transmission, charges (if any) prepaid.

 

 
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Any Communication must be sent to the intended recipient at its address as follows:

to Raycom Media, Inc. at:

Pat LaPlatney
President and CEO

201 Monroe Street
20th Floor

Montgomery, AL 36104

(334) 206-1400

 

With a copy to:

Legal Department

201 Monroe Street
20th Floor

Montgomery, AL 36104

(334) 206-1400

to Frankly Inc. at:

CEO
333 Bryant Street #240
San Francisco, CA 94107

 

or at any other address as any Party may at any time advise the others by Communication given or made in accordance with this Section 11.2. Any Communication delivered to the Party to whom it is addressed will be deemed to have been given or made and received on the day it is delivered at that Party’s address, provided that if that day is not a Business Day then the Communication will be deemed to have been given or made and received on the next Business Day. Any Communication sent by prepaid registered mail will be deemed to have been given or made and received on the fifth Business Day after which it is mailed. If a strike or lockout of postal employees is then in effect, or generally known to be impending, every Communication must be delivered personally or by courier or transmitted by facsimile, e-mail or functionally equivalent electronic means of transmission. Any Communication transmitted by facsimile, e-mail or other functionally equivalent electronic means of transmission will be deemed to have been given or made and received on the day on which it is transmitted; but if the Communication is transmitted on a day which is not a Business Day or after 3:00 p.m. (local time of the recipient), the Communication will be deemed to have been given or made and received on the next Business Day.

 

11.3Severability

 

Each Section of this Agreement is distinct and severable. If any Section of this Agreement, in whole or in part, is or becomes illegal, invalid, void, voidable or unenforceable in any jurisdiction by any court of competent jurisdiction, the illegality, invalidity or unenforceability of that Section, in whole or in part, will not affect:

 

 
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11.3.1the legality, validity or enforceability of the remaining Sections of this Agreement, in whole or in part; or

 

11.3.2the legality, validity or enforceability of that Section, in whole or in part, in any other jurisdiction.

 

11.4Submission to Jurisdiction

 

Each of the Parties irrevocably and unconditionally submits and attorns to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts sitting in Toronto, Ontario to determine all issues, whether at law or in equity, arising from this Agreement. To the extent permitted by Applicable Law, each of the Parties:

 

11.4.1irrevocably waives any objection, including any claim of inconvenient forum, that it may now or in the future have to the venue of any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement in the courts sitting in Toronto, Ontario, or that the subject matter of this Agreement may not be enforced in those courts;

 

11.4.2irrevocably agrees not to seek, and waives any right to, judicial review by any court which may be called upon to enforce the judgment of the courts referred to in this Section 11.4, of the substantive merits of any suit, action or proceeding; and
   
11.4.3to the extent a Party has or may acquire any immunity from the jurisdiction of any court or from any legal process, whether through service or notice, attachment before judgment, attachment in aid of execution, execution or otherwise, with respect to itself or its Property, that Party irrevocably waives that immunity in respect of its obligations under this Agreement.
   
11.5Amendment and Waiver

 

Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, no amendment, discharge, modification, restatement, supplement, termination or waiver of this Agreement or any Section of this Agreement is binding unless it is in writing and executed by the Party to be bound. No waiver of, failure to exercise, or delay in exercising, any Section of this Agreement constitutes a waiver of any other Section, whether or not similar, nor does any waiver constitute a continuing waiver unless otherwise expressly provided.

 

11.6Further Assurances

 

Except as otherwise provided in any Loan Document, each Obligor will, upon request of the Lender and at the Obligor’s own cost and expense, execute and deliver any further agreements and documents and provide any further assurances, undertakings and information as may be reasonably required by the Lender to give effect to the Loan Documents, and without limiting the generality of this Section 11.6 will do or cause to be done all acts and things, execute and deliver or cause to be executed and delivered all agreements and documents and provide any assurances, undertakings and information as may be required at any time by all Governmental Authorities having jurisdiction over the affairs of an Obligor or as may be required at any time under Applicable Law.

 

 
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11.7Assignment

 

11.7.1The Lender may, without notice to or consent of the Obligors, at any time assign, transfer, syndicate, grant a participation interest in, or grant a Security Interest in, all or any part of its rights, remedies and obligations under this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and the Security Interests created by the Security Documents. Each Obligor expressly agrees that the assignee, transferee, syndicated or participating lender or secured party, as the case may be, will have all of the Lender’s rights, remedies and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and the Obligors will not assert any defence, cross-claim, counterclaim, right of set off or any other claim that any Obligor now has or in the future acquires against the Lender in any action commenced by any assignee, transferee, syndicated or participating lender or secured party, as applicable, and will pay the Outstanding Obligations payable by it to the assignee, transferee, syndicated or participating lender or secured party, as the case may be, as they become due.

 

11.7.2None of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents or any rights, remedies or obligations under them may be assigned by any Obligor without the prior written consent of the Lender.

 

11.8Enurement

 

This Agreement enures to the benefit of and is binding upon the Parties and their respective successors and permitted assigns.

 

11.9Counterparts and Electronic Delivery

 

This Agreement may be executed and delivered by the Parties in one or more counterparts, each of which will be an original, and each of which may be delivered by facsimile, e-mail or other functionally equivalent electronic means of transmission, and those counterparts will together constitute one and the same instrument.

 

11.10Conduct of Parties

 

Whenever a Section of this Agreement or a Schedule or an Exhibit requires a consent or approval by a Party and notification of the consent or approval is not delivered within the applicable time limit, then, unless otherwise specified, the Party whose consent or approval is required will be conclusively deemed to have withheld its consent or approval.

 

11.11Remedies Cumulative

 

The rights, powers and remedies under the Loan Documents are cumulative and are in addition to and not in substitution for any other rights, powers and remedies available at law or in equity or otherwise. No single or partial exercise by a Party of any right, power or remedy precludes or otherwise affects the exercise of any other right, power or remedy to which that Party may be entitled.

 

11.12Survival

 

All indemnities set out in this Agreement will survive the repayment of all Loans and other Outstanding Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.

 

 
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11.13Telephone Instructions

 

Any telephone instructions given by the Borrower in relation to this Agreement will be at the risk of the Borrower, and the Lender will not be liable for any errors or omissions in those telephone instructions or the interpretation or execution of them by the Lender, provided that the Lender acted without gross negligence in the circumstances. The Lender will notify the Borrower of any conflict or inconsistency between any telephone instructions and any written confirmation of them received from the Borrower as soon as practicable after the conflict or inconsistency becomes apparent to the Lender.

 

11.14Judgment Currency

 

11.14.1If, for the purpose of obtaining or enforcing judgment against a Party in any court in any jurisdiction, it becomes necessary to convert into any other currency (the other currency is referred to in Section 11.14 as the “Judgment Currency”) an amount due under this Agreement in any currency other than the Judgment Currency (the “Obligation Currency”), the conversion will be made at the exchange rate prevailing on the Business Day immediately preceding:

 

11.14.1.1the date of actual payment of the amount due, in the case of any proceeding in the courts of any jurisdiction that will give effect to the conversion being made on that date; or
   
11.14.1.2the date on which the judgment is given, in the case of any proceeding in the courts of any other jurisdiction,

 

(the applicable date on which the conversion is made under Section 11.14.1 is referred to in Section 11.14 as the “Judgment Conversion Date”).

 

11.14.2If, in the case of any proceeding in the court of any jurisdiction referred to in Section 11.14.1, there is a change in the exchange rate prevailing between the Judgment Conversion Date and the date of actual receipt of the amount due in immediately available funds, the applicable Party will pay the additional or lesser amounts as may be necessary to ensure that the amount actually received in the Judgment Currency, when converted at the Exchange Rate prevailing on the date of payment, produces the amount of the Obligation Currency which could have been purchased with the amount of the Judgment Currency stipulated in the judgment or judicial order at the Exchange Rate prevailing on the Judgment Conversion Date.
   
11.14.3Any amount due from the applicable Party under this Section 11.14 is to be due as a separate Debt, independent of its obligations under this Agreement, and will not be affected by judgment being obtained for any other amounts due under or relating to this Agreement.
   
 
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11.15No Contra Proferentem

 

This Agreement has been reviewed by each Party’s professional advisors, and revised during the course of negotiations between the Parties. Each Party acknowledges that this Agreement is the product of their joint efforts, that it expresses their agreement and, that if there is any ambiguity in any of its provisions, that provision should not be interpreted in favour of either one of them.

 

11.16Consent to Disclosure of Information

 

Each Obligor consents to the Lender obtaining from any credit bureau, credit reporting agency, creditor of the Obligor or other Person any information, including personal information, relating directly or indirectly to its credit, finances or Business that may be required by the Lender at any time for the purposes of this Agreement or any other Loan Documents, including to establish, maintain and manage the relationship of each Obligor with the Lender, and authorizes and directs any credit bureau, credit reporting agency, creditor or other Person to provide that information to the Lender.

 

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Each of the Parties has executed and delivered this Agreement, as of the date noted at the beginning of the Agreement.

 

  RAYCOM MEDIA, INC.
     
  Per: /s/ Warren Spector
  Name: Warren Spector
  Title: Chief Executive Officer
     
  FRANKLY INC.
   
  Per: /s/ Steve Chung
  Name: Steve Chung
  Title: Chief Executive Officer

 

 
 

 

Exhibit 7.1.1.5

THREE-PARTY ESCROW SERVICE AGREEMENT

 

See attached.