Amendment and Restatement Agreement, dated June 6, 2019, in relation to the Finance Contract originally dated June 29, 2017, between the European Investment Bank, Sorin Group Italia S.r.l., and LivaNova PLC

FI N° 86.677 (IT)

Serapis N° 2016-0607

THIS AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is dated 6 June 2019 and made between:

WHEREAS:

IT IS AGREED as follows:

In this Agreement:

“Companies” means, collectively, the Parent and the Italian Subsidiary.

2    “Effective Date” means the date on which the Bank confirms to the Parent in writing (including by electronic mail or other electronic means) that the Bank has received in a form and substance satisfactory to it (acting reasonably) each of the documents and other evidence listed in Schedule 1 (Conditions Precedent).

A person who is not a party to this Agreement has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce or enjoy the benefit of any term of this Agreement.

With effect from (and including) the Effective Date, the Finance Contract shall be amended and restated as set out in Schedule 2 (Amended and Restated Finance Contract).

Except as amended by the terms of this Agreement, the Finance Contract shall remain in full force and effect and any reference in the amended and restated Finance Contract or to any provision of the Finance Contract will be construed as a reference to the amended and restated Finance Contract, or that provision, as amended and restated by this Agreement.

Each Company shall, at the reasonable request of the Bank and at its own expense, do all such acts and things necessary or desirable to give effect to the amendments effected or to be effected pursuant to this Agreement.

Each Co-debtor confirms that, with effect from (and including) the Effective Date, the co-debtorship under Article 1.11 (Co-debtorship: joint and several liability) of the amended and restated Finance Contract and the guarantees and indemnities set out in Article 7.01 (Guarantee and Indemnity) of the amended and restated Finance Contract shall:

The Parent and the Italian Subsidiary make each of the representations and warranties in Article 6.15 (General Representations and Warranties) of the amended and restated Finance Contract (other than that under limb (e) of Article 6.15D and by reference to the facts and circumstances then existing) on;

An amendment fee of EUR 9,000 (nine-thousand euros) shall be due by the Borrowers to the Bank in connection with the execution of this Agreement. This amount shall be paid within 30 (thirty) days following the date of the relevant invoice sent by the Bank to the Borrower, indicating the number of the Bank’s invoice as reference.

This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Each counterpart is an original, but all counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.

If at any time any term of this Agreement is or becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any respect, or this Agreement is or becomes ineffective in any respect, under the laws of any jurisdiction, such illegality, invalidity, unenforceability or ineffectiveness shall not affect:

No failure or delay or single or partial exercise by the Bank in exercising any of its rights or remedies under this Agreement shall be construed as a waiver of such right or remedy. The rights and remedies provided in this Agreement are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law.

This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it are governed by English law.

Without prejudice to any other mode of service allowed under any relevant law, the Italian Subsidiary hereby irrevocably appoints LivaNova PLC, at 20 Eastbourne Terrace, London, W2 6LG as its agent of service for the purposes of accepting service on its behalf of any writ, notice, order, judgement or other legal process (and the Parent by its execution of this Agreement accepts that appointment). The Italian Subsidiary agrees that failure by a process agent to notify it of the process will not invalidate the proceedings concerned.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed in 4 (four) originals in the English language.

Two originals of this Agreement duly executed by the parties thereto.

Legal opinions issued (in form and substance satisfactory for the Bank) by the external legal counsel of the Companies on (i) the due incorporation, capacity and corporate authorizations of each of the Companies; and (ii) on the legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations by each of the Companies under this Agreement and the amended and restated Finance Contract, in accordance with their respective law of their jurisdiction of incorporation.

FI     N° 86.677 (IT)

Serapis N° 2016-0607

                                                   

                                                  

                                                  

of the first part, and

of the second part, and

of the third part.

The Parent and the Italian Subsidiary are collectively referred to herein as the “Borrowers”, and each of them a “Borrower”.

The Bank and the Borrowers are collectively referred to herein as the “Parties”.

NOW THEREFORE it is hereby agreed as follows:

In this Contract:

In this Contract:

“Acceptance Deadline” for a notice means:

“Accounting Date” shall mean each 30 June and 31 December.

"Amendment and Restatement Agreement" means the amendment and restatement agreement dated 6 June 2019 and entered into between the Bank and the Borrowers.

“Authorisation” means an authorisation, permit, consent, approval, resolution, licence, exemption, filing, notarisation or registration.

“Business Day” means a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which the Bank and commercial banks are open for general business in Luxembourg.

“Change-of-Control Event” has the meaning given to it in Article 4.03A(3).

“Change-of-Law Event” has the meaning given to it in Article 4.03A(4).

“Co-debtor” means each of the Parent and the Italian Subsidiary acting as co-debtor under Article 1.11 and guarantor under Article 7.01.

“Compliance Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form set out in Schedule D.2.

"Consolidated EBITDA" shall mean, in respect of a Relevant Period and in relation to the consolidated profit and loss statement of the Group, and determined in accordance with US GAAP: the amount of the consolidated operating income of the Group (without double counting):

“Consolidated Net Financial Indebtedness” shall mean at any time:

“Consolidated Net Worth” in respect of the Group shall mean the consolidated net worth of the Group (being the stockholders' equity as determined in accordance with US GAAP).

“Consolidated Total Net Interest Payable” shall mean for a period in relation to the Group:

“Contract” has the meaning given to it in Recital (4).

“Credit” has the meaning given to it in Article 1.01.

“Deferment Indemnity” means an indemnity calculated on the amount of disbursement deferred or suspended at the percentage rate (if higher than zero) by which:

exceeds

Such indemnity shall accrue from the Scheduled Disbursement Date to the Disbursement Date or, as the case may be, until the date of cancellation of the Notified Tranche in accordance with this Contract.

“Disbursement Notice” means a notice from the Bank to the Borrowers pursuant to and in accordance with Article 1.02C.

“Disbursement Request” means a notice substantially in the form set out in Schedule C.1.

“Disruption Event” means either or both of:

and which disruption (in either such case as per (a) or (b) above) is not caused by, and is beyond the control of, the party whose operations are disrupted.

“Effective Date” shall have the meaning given to this expression in the Amendment and Restatement Agreement.

“EFSI” has the meaning given in recital 9.

“EFSI Regulation” means the Regulation 2015/1017 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 June 2015 on the European Fund for Strategic Investments.

“Environment” means the following, in so far as they affect human health and social well-being:

and includes, without limitation, occupational and community health and safety.

“Environmental Approval” means any Authorisation required by Environmental Law.

“Environmental Claim” means any claim, proceeding, formal notice or investigation by any person in respect of any Environmental Law.

“Environmental Law” means:

“Excluded Guarantee” means:

“EURIBOR” has the meaning given to it in Schedule B.

“EUR” or “euro” means the lawful currency of the Member States of the European Union which adopt or have adopted it as their currency in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union or their succeeding treaties.

“Event of Default” means any of the circumstances, events or occurrences specified in Article 10.01.

“Financial Indebtedness” shall mean any indebtedness for or in respect of:

“Final Availability Date” means 30 December 2018.

“Fixed Rate” means an annual interest rate determined by the Bank in accordance with the applicable principles from time to time laid down by the governing bodies of the Bank for loans made at a fixed rate of interest, denominated in the currency of the Tranche and bearing equivalent terms for the repayment of capital and the payment of interest. Fixed Rate shall include the Margin.

“Fixed Rate Tranche” means a Tranche on which Fixed Rate is applied.

“Floating Rate” means a fixed-spread floating interest rate, that is to say an annual interest rate determined by the Bank for each successive Floating Rate Reference Period equal to the Relevant Interbank Rate plus the Spread.

“Floating Rate Reference Period” means each period from one Payment Date to the next relevant Payment Date; the first Floating Rate Reference Period shall commence on the date of disbursement of the Tranche.

“Floating Rate Tranche” means a Tranche on which Floating Rate is applied.

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the country of incorporation of each Borrower, including US GAAP.

“Group” means the Parent and its Subsidiaries.

“Illegal Activities” means any of the following illegal activities or activities carried out for illegal purposes: tax evasion, tax fraud, fraud, corruption, coercion, collusion, obstruction, money laundering, financing of terrorism, organised crime or any illegal activity that may affect the financial interests of the EU, according to applicable laws.

“Indemnifiable Prepayment Event” means a Prepayment Event other than those specified in Articles 4.03A(2) or 4.03A(5).

“Interest Revision/Conversion” means the determination of new financial conditions relative to the interest rate, specifically the same interest rate basis (“revision”) or a different interest rate basis (“conversion”) which can be offered for the remaining term of a Tranche or until a next Interest Revision/Conversion Date, if any, for an amount which, at the proposed Interest Revision/Conversion Date, is not less than EUR 10,000,000.00 (ten million euros) or the equivalent thereof.

“Interest Revision/Conversion Date” means the date, which shall be a Payment Date, specified by the Bank pursuant to Article 1.02 C in the Disbursement Notice or pursuant to Article 3 and Schedule G.

“Interest Revision/Conversion Proposal” means a proposal made by the Bank under Schedule G.

“Interest Revision/Conversion Request” means a written notice from the Borrowers, delivered at least 75 (seventy-five) days before an Interest Revision/Conversion Date, requesting the Bank to submit to it an Interest Revision/Conversion Proposal. The Interest Revision/Conversion Request shall also specify:

“LIBOR” has the meaning given to it in Schedule B.

“Loan” means the aggregate amount of Tranches disbursed from time to time by the Bank under this Contract.

“Margin” means the component of the rate of interest quantified in Article 3.01.

“Market Disruption Event” means any of the following circumstances:

or

“Material Adverse Change” in relation to a Borrower and/or any of its Subsidiaries, any event or change of condition, as compared with the condition at the Effective Date, affecting respectively that Borrower and/or any of its Subsidiaries, which, in the reasonable opinion of the Bank, has a material adverse effect on:

"Material Adverse Effect" means a material adverse effect on:

“Maturity Date” means the last repayment date of a Tranche specified pursuant to Article 4.01A(b)(iv).

“Non-Recurring Items" means cost items related to:

in total not exceeding (save as provided in the proviso set out in the paragraph directly under paragraph (ii) below):

provided that, for the test period starting on 1 January 2018 and ending on 31 December 2018, the specific provision of USD 294,021,000.00 (two hundred ninety-four million and twenty-one thousand US dollars) related to the settlement of a matter known as “3T litigation”(as reported in the Original Financial Statements) shall be added back to Consolidated EBITDA for the purposes of calculating Consolidated Net Financial Indebtedness to Consolidated EBITDA and Consolidated EBITDA to Consolidated Total Net Interest Payable ratios (both as defined in Schedule E), while not adding back to Consolidated EBITDA any further adjustments related to Non-Recurring Items. For the avoidance of doubt, the specific provision of USD 294,021,000.00 (two hundred ninety-four million and twenty-one thousand US dollars) related to the settlement of the “3T litigation” shall also be added back to EBITDA for the 12-month test period ending on 30 June 2019 in addition to any other Non-Recurring Items within the limits set out in limb (i) above.

“Notified Tranche” means a Tranche in respect of which the Bank has issued a Disbursement Notice.

“Original Financial Statements” means the audited consolidated financial statements of the Group for the financial year ended 31 December 2018.

“Payment Date” means: the annual, semi-annual or quarterly dates specified in the Disbursement Notice until the Interest Revision/Conversion Date, if any, or until the Maturity Date, save that, in case any such date is not a Relevant Business Day, it means:

“Permitted Acquisition” means an operation permitted under Article 6.10B.

“Permitted Guarantee” means:

“Permitted Loan” means any Financial Indebtedness or loan made by a member of the Group:

“Permitted Receivables Disposal” means (i) any factoring programme with recourse (pro solvendo) or without recourse (pro soluto) of receivables of the Group which are already concluded at date of signature of this Contract; and/or (ii) any securitisation and/or factoring programme of the receivables of the Group previously consented by the Bank, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld; and/or (iii) any disposal of receivables not otherwise permitted under paragraphs (i) or (ii) above where the net consideration receivable (when aggregated with the consideration for all such other receivables disposed of) does not exceed USD 40,000,000 (forty million USD dollars)

in any financial year.

“Permitted Share Buyback” means any share buyback occurring at any time on or after the date falling 16 (sixteen) months after the date of 6 June 2019 provided that at that time (a) the aggregate principal amount of the Loans (as defined in the Term Loan) outstanding under the Term Loan does not exceed USD 200,000,000 (two-hundred million); and (b) the ratio of Consolidated Net Financial Indebtedness to Consolidated EBITDA does not exceed 1.5 times following the payment for the share buyback.

“Prepayment Amount” means the amount of a Tranche to be prepaid by the Borrowers in accordance with Article 4.02A.

“Prepayment Date” means the date, which shall be a Payment Date, on which the Borrowers propose to effect prepayment of a Prepayment Amount.

“Prepayment Event” means any of the events described in Article 4.03A.

“Prepayment Indemnity” means in respect of any principal amount to be prepaid or cancelled, the amount communicated by the Bank to the Borrowers as the present value (as of the Prepayment Date) of the excess, if any, of:

The said present value shall be calculated at a discount rate equal to the Redeployment Rate, applied as of each relevant Payment Date.

“Prepayment Notice” means a written notice from the Bank to the Borrowers in accordance with Article 4.02C.

“Prepayment Request” means a written request from a Borrower to the Bank to prepay all or part of the Loan, in accordance with Article 4.02A.

“Project” has the meaning given to it in Recital (1).

“Redeployment Rate” means the Fixed Rate excluding the Margin in effect on the day of the indemnity calculation for fixed-rate loans denominated in the same currency and which shall have the same terms for the payment of interest and the same repayment profile to the Interest Revision/Conversion Date, if any, or the Maturity Date as the Tranche in respect of which a prepayment is proposed or requested to be made. For those cases where the period is shorter than 48 (forty-eight)months (or 36 (thirty-six) months in the absence of a repayment of principal during that period), the most closely corresponding money market rate equivalent will be used, that is the Relevant Interbank Rate minus 0.125% (12.5 basis points) for periods of up to 12 (twelve) months. For periods falling between 12 (twelve) and 36/48 (thirty-six/forty-eight) months, as the case may be, the bid point on the swap rates as published by Reuters for the related currency and observed by the Bank at the time of calculation will apply.

“Relevant Business Day” means:

“Relevant Interbank Rate” means:

“Relevant Period” means, for the purpose of EBITDA calculation, each twelve-month period.

“Restricted Party” means a person that is:

“Sanctions” means any trade, economic or financial sanctions laws, regulations, embargoes or restrictive measures administered, enacted or enforced by a Sanctions Authority.

“Sanctions Authority” means:

“Sanctions List” means the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons list maintained by OFAC, the Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets maintained by Her Majesty's Treasury, or any similar list maintained by, or public announcement of a Sanctions designation made by, a Sanctions Authority, each as amended, supplemented or substituted from time to time.

“Scheduled Disbursement Date” means the date on which a Tranche is scheduled to be disbursed in accordance with Article 1.02C.

“Security” means any mortgage, pledge, lien, charge, hypothecation, assignment by way of security (cessione dei crediti in garanzia) or other security interest securing any obligation of any person or any other agreement or arrangement having a similar effect.

“Spread” means the fixed spread to the Relevant Interbank Rate (being either plus or minus) determined by the Bank including the Margin and notified to the Borrowers in the relevant Disbursement Notice or Interest Revision/Conversion Proposal.

“Subsidiary” means in relation to any company or corporation, a company or corporation:

and for this purpose, a company or corporation shall be treated as being controlled by another if that other company or corporation is able to direct its affairs, exercise a dominant influence over it and/or to control the composition of its board of directors or equivalent body and is fully consolidated in the consolidated financial statements on a line-by-line basis for such period.

“Tax” means any tax, levy, impost, duty or other charge or withholding of a similar nature (including any penalty or interest payable in connection with any failure to pay or any delay in paying any of the same).

“Technical Description” has the meaning given to it in Recital (1).

“Term Loan” means the USD 350,000,000.00 (three hundred and fifty million US dollars) credit facility agreement entered into on 26 March 2019 between the Parent and certain banking institutions.

“Tranche” means each disbursement made or to be made under this Contract. In case no Disbursement Notice has been delivered, Tranche shall mean a Tranche as requested under Article 1.02 B.

“USD” means the lawful currency of the United States of America.

“US GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America, as promulgated, from time to time, by the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

By this Contract the Bank establishes in favour of the Borrowers, and the Borrowers accept, the credit in an amount of EUR 90,000,000.00 (ninety million euros) for the financing of the Project (the “Credit”).

The Bank shall disburse the Credit in up to 2 (two) Tranches. The amount of each Tranche, if not being the undrawn balance of the Credit, shall be in a minimum amount of EUR 50,000,000.00 (fifty million euros) or its equivalent in USD (US Dollars).

applicable to the Tranche until the Maturity Date or until the Interest Revision/Conversion Date, if any.

1.02C    Disbursement Notice

Disbursement shall be made to the account of the relevant Borrower as that Borrower shall notify in writing to the Bank not later than 15 (fifteen) days before the Scheduled Disbursement Date (with IBAN code or with the appropriate format in line with local banking practice).

Only one account may be specified for each Tranche.

The Bank shall disburse each Tranche in EUR or USD.

For the calculation of the sums available to be disbursed in USD, and to determine their equivalent in EUR, the Bank shall apply the rate published by the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, available on or shortly before submission of the Disbursement Notice as the Bank shall decide.

The disbursement of the first Tranche under Article 1.02 is conditional upon receipt by the Bank, in form and substance satisfactory to it, on or before the date falling 5 (five) Business Days before the Scheduled Disbursement Date, of the following documents or evidence:

The disbursement of each Tranche under Article 1.02, including the first, is subject to the following conditions:

has occurred and is continuing unremedied or unwaived or would result from the disbursement of the proposed Tranche.

Upon the written request of the relevant Borrower, the Bank shall defer the disbursement of any Notified Tranche in whole or in part to a date specified by the relevant Borrower being a date falling not later than 6 (six) months from its Scheduled Disbursement Date and not later than 60 (sixty) days prior to the first repayment date of the Tranche indicated in the Disbursement Notice. In such case, the relevant Borrower shall pay the Deferment Indemnity calculated on the amount of disbursement deferred.

Any request for deferment shall have effect in respect of a Tranche only if it is made at least 5 (five) Business Days before its Scheduled Disbursement Date.

If for a Notified Tranche any of the conditions referred to in Article 1.04 is not fulfilled as at the specified date and at the Scheduled Disbursement Date (or the date expected for disbursement in case of a previous deferment), disbursement will be deferred to a date agreed between the Bank and the relevant Borrower falling not earlier than 5 (five) Business Days following the fulfilment of all conditions of disbursement (without prejudice to the right of the Bank to suspend and/or cancel the undisbursed portion of the Credit in whole or in part pursuant to Article 1.06B). In such case, the relevant Borrower shall pay the Deferment Indemnity calculated on the amount of disbursement deferred.

The Bank may, by notice in writing to the relevant Borrower, cancel a disbursement which has been deferred under Article 1.05A by more than 6 (six) months in aggregate. The cancelled amount shall remain available for disbursement under Article 1.02.

The Parent, on behalf of the Borrowers, may at any time by notice in writing to the Bank cancel, in whole or in part and with immediate effect, the undisbursed portion of the Credit. However, the notice shall have no effect in respect of (i) a Notified Tranche which has a Scheduled Disbursement Date falling within 5 (five) Business Days of the date of the notice or (ii) a Tranche in respect of which a Disbursement Request has been submitted but no Disbursement Notice has been issued.

If the Bank suspends a Notified Tranche, whether upon an Indemnifiable Prepayment Event or an Event of Default or upon the occurrence of a Material Adverse Change, the relevant Borrower, shall pay to the Bank the Deferment Indemnity calculated on the amount of disbursement suspended.

If pursuant to Article 1.06A, any of the Borrowers cancels:

If the Bank cancels:

Save in these cases, no indemnity is payable upon cancellation of a Tranche by the Bank.

The indemnity shall be calculated as if the cancelled amount had been disbursed and repaid on the Scheduled Disbursement Date or, to the extent that the disbursement of the Tranche is currently deferred or suspended, on the date of the cancellation notice.

On the day following the Final Availability Date, and unless otherwise specifically agreed to in writing by the Bank, the part of the Credit in respect of which no Disbursement Request has been made in accordance with Article 1.02B shall be automatically cancelled, without any notice being served by the Bank to the Borrowers and without liability arising on the part of the Parties.

The Parent, on behalf of the Borrowers, shall pay or cause to be paid to the Bank within the earlier of (i) 30 September 2017 and (ii) the date of disbursement of the first Tranche an appraisal fee in respect of the appraisal conducted by the Bank in relation to the Project. The amount of the appraisal fee is EUR 120,000.00 (one hundred twenty thousand euros). The Parent, on behalf of the Borrowers, authorises the Bank to retain out of the first Tranche an amount equal to the appraisal fee and such amount so retained by the Bank shall be treated as having been disbursed by the Bank in payment of the appraisal fee.

The Parent, on behalf of the Borrowers, shall pay to the Bank a non-utilisation fee calculated on the daily undrawn un-cancelled balance of the Credit from the date falling 12 (twelve) months from the date of the Contract at a rate of 0.10% (ten basis points) per annum, the accrued non-utilisation fee being payable:

If the date on which the non-utilisation fee is due to be paid is not a Relevant Business Day, payment shall be made on the next day, if any, of that calendar month that is a Relevant Business Day or, failing that, the nearest preceding day that is a Relevant Business Day, in all cases with a corresponding adjustment to the amount of non-utilisation fee due.

Sums due under Articles 1.05 and 1.06 shall be payable in EUR or in the currency of the Tranche concerned. They shall be payable within 15 (fifteen) days of the Borrowers’ receipt of the Bank’s demand or within any longer period specified in the Bank’s demand.

Each Co-debtor is jointly and severally liable for all amounts due by the other Co-debtors under this Contract and for all the relevant obligations of the other Co-debtors under this Contract.

The Loan shall comprise the aggregate amount of Tranches disbursed by the Bank under the Credit, as confirmed by the Bank pursuant to Article 2.03.

Interest, repayments and other charges payable in respect of each Tranche shall be made by the Borrowers in the currency in which the Tranche is disbursed.

Any other payment shall be made in the currency specified by the Bank having regard to the currency of the expenditure to be reimbursed by means of that payment.

Within 10 (ten) days after disbursement of each Tranche, the Bank shall deliver to the relevant Borrower the amortisation table referred to in Article 4.01, if appropriate, showing the Disbursement Date, the currency, the amount disbursed, the repayment terms and the interest rate of and for that Tranche.

For the purposes of this Contract “Margin” means 108 basis points (1.08 %).

Fixed Rates and Spreads are available for periods of not less than 4 (four) years or, in the absence of a repayment of principal during that period, not less than 3 (three) years.

The relevant Borrower shall pay interest on the outstanding balance of each Fixed Rate Tranche at the Fixed Rate quarterly, semi-annually or annually in arrears on the relevant Payment Dates as specified in the Disbursement Notice, commencing on the first such Payment Date following the Disbursement Date of the Tranche. If the period from the Disbursement Date to the first

Payment Date is 15 (fifteen) days or less than the payment of interest accrued during such period shall be postponed to the following Payment Date.

Interest shall be calculated on the basis of Article 5.01(a).

3.01B    Floating Rate Tranches

The relevant Borrower shall pay interest on the outstanding balance of each Floating Rate Tranche at the Floating Rate quarterly, semi-annually or annually in arrears on the relevant Payment Dates, as specified in the Disbursement Notice commencing on the first such Payment Date following the Disbursement Date of the Tranche. If the period from the Disbursement Date to the first Payment Date is 15 (fifteen) days or less than the payment of interest accrued during such period shall be postponed to the following Payment Date.

The Bank shall notify the Floating Rate to the relevant Borrower within 10 (ten) days following the commencement of each Floating Rate Reference Period.

If pursuant to Articles 1.05 and 1.06 disbursement of any Floating Rate Tranche takes place after the Scheduled Disbursement Date the Relevant Interbank Rate applicable to the first Floating Rate Reference Period shall apply as though the disbursement had been made on the Scheduled Disbursement Date.

Interest shall be calculated in respect of each Floating Rate Reference Period on the basis of Article 5.01(b). If the Floating Rate for any Floating Rate Reference Period is below zero, it will be set at zero.

Where the relevant Borrower exercises an option to revise or convert the interest rate basis of a Tranche, it shall, from the effective Interest Revision/Conversion Date (in accordance with the procedure set out in Schedule G) pay interest at a rate determined in accordance with the provisions of Schedule G.

Without prejudice to Article 10 and by way of exception to Article 3.01, if any of the Borrowers fails to pay any amount payable by it under this Contract on its due date, interest shall accrue on any overdue amount payable under the terms of this Contract from the due date to the date of actual payment at an annual rate equal to:

and shall be payable in accordance with the demand of the Bank. For the purpose of determining the Relevant Interbank Rate in relation to this Article 3.02, the relevant periods within the meaning of Schedule B shall be successive periods of one month commencing on the due date.

If the overdue sum is in a currency other than the currency of the Loan, the following rate per annum shall apply, namely the relevant interbank rate that is generally retained by the Bank for transactions in that currency plus 2% (200 basis points), calculated in accordance with the market practice for such rate.

If at any time (i) from the issuance by the Bank of the Disbursement Notice in respect of a Tranche, and (ii) until the date falling 30 (thirty) calendar days for Tranches,

prior to the Scheduled Disbursement Date, a Market Disruption Event occurs, the Bank may notify to the relevant Borrower that this clause has come into effect. In such case, the following rules shall apply:

Each of the Borrowers shall have the right to refuse in writing such disbursement within the deadline specified in the notification and shall bear charges incurred as a result, if any, in which case the Bank shall not make the disbursement and the corresponding Credit shall remain available for disbursement under Article 1.02B. If the Borrowers do not refuse the disbursement in time, the parties agree that the disbursement and the conditions thereof shall be fully binding for both parties.

Subject to Articles 4.02B, 4.02C and 4.04, a Borrower may prepay all or part of any Tranche, together with accrued interest and indemnities if any, upon giving a Prepayment Request with at least 1 (one) month's prior notice specifying (i) the Prepayment Amount, (ii) the Prepayment Date, (iii) if applicable, the choice of application method of the Prepayment Amount in line with Article 5.05(c)(i) and (iii) the contract number (“FI nr”) mentioned on the cover page of this Contract.

Subject to Article 4.02C the Prepayment Request shall be binding and irrevocable.

If any of the Borrowers prepays a Fixed Rate Tranche, that Borrower shall pay to the Bank on the Prepayment Date the Prepayment Indemnity in respect of the Fixed Rate Tranche which is being prepaid.

Any Borrower may prepay a Floating Rate Tranche without indemnity on any relevant Payment Date.

Unless the relevant Borrower have accepted in writing a Fixed Rate in respect of an Interest Revision/Conversion Proposal pursuant to Schedule G, prepayment of a Tranche on their Interest Revision/Conversion Date as notified under Article 1.02C(a)(viii), or in accordance with Schedule C.1 or G, as the case may be, may be effected without indemnity.

Upon presentation by a Borrower to the Bank of a Prepayment Request, the Bank shall issue a Prepayment Notice to the Borrowers, not later than 15 (fifteen) days prior to the Prepayment Date. The Prepayment Notice shall specify the Prepayment Amount, the accrued interest due thereon, the Prepayment Indemnity payable under Article 4.02B or, as the case may be, that no indemnity is due, the method of application of the Prepayment Amount and the Acceptance Deadline.

If the relevant Borrower accepts the Prepayment Notice no later than by the Acceptance Deadline, it shall effect the prepayment. In any other case, the Borrowers may not effect the prepayment.

The relevant Borrower shall accompany the prepayment by the payment of accrued interest and indemnity, if any, due on the Prepayment Amount, as specified in the Prepayment Notice.

If the total cost of the Project falls below the figure stated in Recital (2) so that the amount of the Credit exceeds

of such total cost of the Project, the Bank may forthwith, by notice to the Borrowers, cancel the undisbursed portion of the Credit and/or demand prepayment of the Loan up to the amount by

which the Credit exceeds the limits referred to in (a) or (b) above. The Borrowers shall effect payment of the amount demanded on the date specified by the Bank, such date being a date falling not less than 30 (thirty) days from the date of the demand.

If any of the Borrowers (or any other member of the Group) voluntarily prepays (for the avoidance of doubt, prepayment shall include a repurchase or cancellation where applicable) a part or the whole of any Non-EIB Financing and:

the Bank may, by notice to the Borrowers, cancel the undisbursed portion of the Credit and demand prepayment of the Loan. The proportion of the Loan that the Bank may require to be prepaid shall be the same as the proportion that the prepaid amount of the Non-EIB Financing bears to the aggregate outstanding amount of all Non-EIB Financing.

The relevant Borrower shall effect payment of the amount demanded on the date specified by the Bank, such date being a date falling not less than 30 (thirty) days from the date of the demand.

For the purposes of this Article, “Non-EIB Financing” includes any loan, (save for the Loan and any other direct loans from the Bank to the Borrowers (or any other member of the Group)), credit bond or other form of financial indebtedness or any obligation for the payment or repayment of money originally granted to the Borrowers (or any other member of the Group)) for a term of more than 3 (three) years.

4.03A(3)    CHANGE OF CONTROL

Each of the Borrowers shall promptly inform the Bank if a Change-of-Control Event has occurred or is likely to occur in respect of itself (or, in case of the Parent, in respect of any Borrower). At any time after the occurrence of a Change-of-Control Event, the Bank may, by notice to the Borrowers, cancel the undisbursed portion of the Credit and demand prepayment of the Loan, together with accrued interest and all other amounts accrued or outstanding under this Contract.

In addition, if the Borrowers have informed the Bank that a Change-of-Control Event is about to occur, or if the Bank has reasonable cause to believe that a Change-of-Control Event is about to occur, the Bank may request that the Borrowers consult with it. Such consultation shall take place within 30 (thirty) days from the date of the Bank’s request. After the earlier of (a) the lapse of 30 (thirty) days from the date of such request for consultation, or (b) at any time thereafter, upon the occurrence of the anticipated Change-of-Control Event the Bank may, by notice to the Borrowers, cancel the undisbursed portion of the Credit and demand prepayment of the Loan, together with accrued interest and all other amounts accrued or outstanding under this Contract.

The Borrowers shall effect payment of the amount demanded on the date specified by the Bank, such date being a date falling not less than 30 (thirty) days from the date of the demand.

For the purposes of this Article:

The Borrowers shall promptly inform the Bank if a Change-of-Law Event has occurred or is likely to occur. In such case, or if the Bank has reasonable cause to believe that a Change-of-Law Event has occurred or is about to occur, the Bank may request that the Borrowers consult with it. Such consultation shall take place within 30 (thirty) days from the date of the Bank’s request. If, after the lapse of 30 (thirty) days from the date of such request for consultation the Bank is of the reasonable opinion that the effects of the Change-of-Law Event cannot be mitigated to its satisfaction, the Bank may by notice to any of the Borrowers, cancel the undisbursed portion of the Credit and demand prepayment of the Loan, together with accrued interest and all other amounts accrued or outstanding under this Contract.

The Borrowers shall effect payment of the amount demanded on the date specified by the Bank, such date being a date falling not less than 30 (thirty) days from the date of the demand.

For the purposes of this Article “Change-of-Law Event” means the enactment, promulgation, execution or ratification of or any change in or amendment to any law, rule or regulation (or in the application or official interpretation of any law, rule or regulation) that occurs after the Effective Date and which, in the opinion of the Bank, would materially impair any of the Borrowers' ability to perform their obligations under this Contract.

4.03A(5)    ILLEGALITY

If it becomes unlawful in any applicable jurisdiction for the Bank to perform any of its obligations as contemplated in this Contract or to fund or maintain the Loan, the Bank shall promptly notify the Borrowers and the Bank may immediately (i) suspend or cancel the undisbursed portion of the Credit and/or (ii) demand prepayment of the Loan, together with accrued interest and all other amounts accrued or outstanding under this Contract on the date indicated by the Bank in its notice to the Borrowers.

Any sum demanded by the Bank pursuant to Article 4.03A, together with any interest or other amounts accrued or outstanding under this Contract including, without limitation, any indemnity due under Article 4.03C and Article 4.04, shall be paid on the date indicated by the Bank in its notice of demand.

4.03C    Prepayment indemnity

In the case of an Indemnifiable Prepayment Event, the indemnity, if any, shall be determined in accordance with Article 4.02B.

A repaid or prepaid amount may not be reborrowed. This Article 4 shall not prejudice Article 10.

If any Borrower prepays a Tranche on a date other than a relevant Payment Date, that Borrower shall indemnify the Bank in such amount as the Bank shall certify is required to compensate it for receipt of funds otherwise than on a relevant Payment Date.

Any amount due by way of interest, indemnity or fee from a Borrower under this Contract, and calculated in respect of a fraction of a year, shall be determined on the following respective conventions:

Unless otherwise specified in this Contract or in the Bank’s demand, all sums other than sums of interest, indemnity and principal are payable within 15 (fifteen) days of the relevant Borrower’s receipt of the Bank’s demand.

Each sum payable by the Borrowers under this Contract shall be paid to the relevant account notified by the Bank to the relevant Borrower. The Bank shall notify the account not less than 15 (fifteen) days before the due date for the first payment by the relevant Borrower and shall notify any change of account not less than 15 (fifteen) days before the date of the first payment to which the change applies. This period of notice does not apply in the case of payment under Article 10.

The Borrowers shall indicate in each payment made hereunder the contract number (“FI nr”) found on the cover page of this Contract.

A sum due from a Borrower shall be deemed paid when the Bank receives it.

Any disbursements by and payments to the Bank under this Contract shall be made using account(s) acceptable to the Bank. For the avoidance of doubt, any account in the name of a Borrower held with a duly authorized financial institution in the jurisdiction where that Borrower is incorporated or where the Project is undertaken is deemed acceptable to the Bank.

All payments to be made by any Borrower under this Contract shall be calculated and be made without (and free and clear of any deduction for) set-off or counterclaim.

If either the Bank determines (in its discretion) that a Disruption Event has occurred or the Bank is notified by any of the Borrowers that a Disruption Event has occurred:

Sums received from a Borrower shall only discharge its payment obligations if received in accordance with the terms of this Contract.

If the Bank receives a payment that is insufficient to discharge all the amounts then due and payable by a Borrower under this Contract, the Bank shall apply that payment:

The undertakings in this Article 6 remain in force from the date of this Contract for so long as any amount is outstanding under this Contract or the Credit is in force.

A. Project undertakings

Each of the Borrowers shall use all amounts borrowed by it under the Loan for the execution of the Project.

Each of the Borrowers shall ensure that it has available to it the other funds listed in Recital (2) and that such funds are expended, to the extent required, on the financing of the Project.

Each Borrower shall carry out the Project in accordance with the Technical Description as may be modified from time to time with the approval of the Bank, and complete it by the final date specified therein.

If the total cost of the Project exceeds the estimated figure set out in Recital (2), the Parent on behalf of the Borrowers shall obtain the finance to fund the excess cost without recourse to the

Bank, so as to enable the Project to be completed in accordance with the Technical Description. The plans for funding the excess cost shall be communicated to the Bank without delay.

Each Borrower shall purchase equipment, secure services and order works for the Project (a) in so far as they apply to it or to the Project, in accordance with European Union law in general and in particular with the relevant European Union Directives and (b) in so far as European Union Directives do not apply, by procurement procedures which, to the satisfaction of the Bank, respect the criteria of economy and efficiency and, in case of public contracts, the principles of transparency, equal treatment and non-discrimination on the basis of nationality.

Each Borrower shall:

For the purposes of this Article, “dispose” and “disposal” includes any act effecting sale, transfer, lease or other disposal.

So long as any part of the Loan remains outstanding, the Parent shall ensure that all the financial ratios set out in Schedule E are fulfilled.

The Parent shall procure that no substantial change is made to the general nature of the business of the Parent or the Group from that carried on at the Effective Date.

Any acquisition whose Individual Purchase Price exceeds in aggregate USD 75,000,000.00 (seventy five million US dollars) or its equivalent will only be permitted under paragraph (c) above if the Parent has delivered to the Bank not later than 30 (thirty) Business Days before legally committing to make such acquisition a certificate signed by (i) the Chief Executive Officer of the Parent or (ii) two members of the Board of Directors of the Parent, attaching a copy of the latest audited accounts (or if not available, management accounts) of the target company or business.

Such certificate must give calculations showing in reasonable detail that the Parent would have remained in compliance with its obligations under Article 6.07 if the covenant tests were recalculated for the relevant period ending on the most recent Accounting Date consolidating the financial statements of the target company (consolidated if it has Subsidiaries) or business with the financial statements of the Group for such period on a pro forma basis and as if the amount of the consideration to be paid at the date of the acquisition, for the proposed acquisition, had been paid at the start of that relevant period.

Each Borrower shall ensure that the Subsidiary Financial Indebtedness does not exceed at any time 35% (thirty-five per cent) of Group Financial Indebtedness.

For the purposes of this Article:

For the avoidance of doubt and notwithstanding anything to the contrary, intra-group debt shall not constitute or in any way be included in the definition of Indebtedness for Subsidiary Financial Indebtedness.

Each Borrower shall comply in all respects with all laws and regulations to which it or the Project is subject.

No Borrower shall (and the Parent shall ensure that no other member of the Group will) enter into any amalgamation, demerger, merger or corporate reconstruction other than a Permitted Transaction.

For the purposes of this Article 6.13 “Permitted Transaction” means:

in each case provided that ratios specified in Article 6.07 are satisfied at any time.

Each Borrower shall ensure that it has kept and will continue to keep proper books and records of account, in which full and correct entries shall be made of all financial transactions and the assets and business of that Borrower, including expenditures in connection with the Project, in accordance with GAAP as in effect from time to time.

Each Borrower shall not:

The representations and warranties set out above shall survive the execution of this Contract and are, with the exception of the representation set out in paragraph (e) and (n) of Article 6.15D above, deemed repeated on each Disbursement Request, Disbursement Date and on each Payment Date.

The Borrowers agree to cooperate with the Bank to ensure that any press release or publication made by the Borrowers regarding the financing and the Project include an appropriate acknowledgement of the financial support provided by EIB with the backing of the European Union through EFSI.

Each Co-debtor irrevocably and unconditionally jointly and severally:

This guarantee is a continuing guarantee and will extend to the ultimate balance of sums payable by any Borrower under this Contract, regardless of any intermediate payment or discharge in whole or in part.

If any discharge, release or arrangement (whether in respect of the obligations of any Borrower or any security for those obligations or otherwise) is made by the Bank in whole or in part on the basis of any payment, security or other disposition which is avoided or must be restored in insolvency, liquidation, administration or otherwise, without limitation, then the liability of each Co-debtor under this Article 7.01 will continue or be reinstated as if the discharge, release or arrangement had not occurred.

The obligations of each Co-debtor under this Article 7.01 will not be affected by an act, omission, matter or thing which, but for this Article, would reduce, release or prejudice any of its obligations under this Article 7.01 (without limitation and whether or not known to it or the Bank) including:

Each Co-debtor waives any right it may have of first requiring the Bank (or any trustee or agent on its behalf) to proceed against or enforce any other rights or security or claim payment from any person before claiming from that Co-debtor under this Article 7.01. This waiver applies irrespective of any law or any provision of this Contract to the contrary.

Until all amounts which may be or become payable by the Borrowers under or in connection with this Contract have been irrevocably paid in full, the Bank (or any trustee or agent on its behalf) may:

Until all amounts which may be or become payable by the Borrowers under or in connection with this Contract have been irrevocably paid in full and unless the Bank otherwise directs, no Co-debtor will exercise any rights which it may have by reason of performance by it of its obligations under this Contract or by reason of any amount being payable, or liability arising, under this Article 7.01:

If a Co-debtor receives any benefit, payment or distribution in relation to such rights it shall hold that benefit, payment or distribution to the extent necessary to enable all amounts which may be or become payable to the Bank by the Borrowers under or in connection with this Contract to be repaid in full on trust for the Bank and shall promptly pay or transfer the same to the Bank or as the Bank may direct for application in accordance with Article 5.05(b).

This guarantee is in addition to and is not in any way prejudiced by any other guarantee or security now or subsequently held by the Bank.

The obligations of the Italian Subsidiary as Co-debtor under Article 1.11 and under this Article 7.01 shall not exceed an amount equal to the maximum outstanding amount of any intercompany loans advanced or made available to the Italian Subsidiary by the Parent out of the proceeds of the Credit.

and in each case each Borrower shall be bound as though that Borrower itself had given the notices and instructions (including, without limitation, any Disbursement Requests) or received the relevant notice, demand or other communication.

So long as any part of the Loan remains outstanding, the Parent shall not and shall not permit that any of its Subsidiaries create on its own behalf or permit to subsist any Security Interest on, or with respect to, any of their present or future businesses, obligations, undertakings, assets or revenues (including any uncalled capital) with the exception of Permitted Security.

For the purpose of this Contract “Security Interest” shall mean any guarantee for the benefit of any company of the Group or any third party, mortgage, pledge, lien, charge, assignment, hypothecation, title retention, preferential right, priority or trust arrangement or security interest or any other agreement or arrangement having the effect of conferring security.

For the purpose of this Contract “Permitted Security” shall mean:

For the purpose of this Article 7.02 the Parent declares that at the date of the execution of this Contract no Security Interest other than Permitted Security exists over its assets or the assets of any of the companies of the Group.

Each of the Borrowers shall ensure that its payment obligations under this Contract rank, and will rank, not less than pari passu in right of payment with all other present and future unsecured and unsubordinated obligations under any of its debt instruments except for obligations mandatorily preferred by law applying to companies generally.

If, at any time while the Loan is outstanding, any member of the Group concludes with any other medium or long term financial creditor a financing agreement that includes a covenant or other provision imposing minimum financial ratios stricter than the ones indicated in Schedule E hereto, the Parent shall so inform the Bank and shall, at the request of the Bank, execute an agreement to amend this Contract so as to provide for an equivalent provision in favour of the Bank.

provided always that if such information or document is not delivered to the Bank on time, and the Parent (and, upon request of the Bank, the relevant Borrower) does not rectify the omission within a reasonable time set by the Bank in writing, the Bank may remedy the deficiency, to the extent feasible, by employing its own staff or a consultant or any other third party, at the Parent's expense and the Borrowers shall provide such persons with all assistance necessary for the purpose;

and set out the action to be taken with respect to such matters.

Each Borrower shall allow the Bank and, when either required by the relevant mandatory provisions of EU law or pursuant to the EFSI Regulation, the competent EU institutions including the European Court of Auditors, the Commission, the European Anti-Fraud Office, as well as persons designated by the foregoing:

Each Borrower shall provide the Bank, or ensure that the Bank is provided, with all necessary assistance for the purposes described in this Article.

In the case of a genuine allegation, complaint or information with regard to Illegal Activities related to the Loan and/or the Project, each Borrower shall consult with the Bank in good faith regarding appropriate actions. In particular, if it is proven that a third party committed Illegal Activities in connection with the Loan and/or the Project with the result that the Loan or the EFSI financing were misapplied, the Bank may, without prejudice to the other provisions of this Contract, inform the Borrowers if, in its reasonable view, the Borrowers should take appropriate recovery measures against such third party. In any such case, the Borrowers shall in good faith consider the Bank’s views and keep the Bank informed.

the Bank may be obliged to communicate information relating to any of the Borrowers and the Project to any competent institution or body of the European Union in accordance with the relevant mandatory provisions of European Union law or pursuant to the EFSI Regulation; and

the Bank may publish on its website or produce press releases containing information related to the financing provided pursuant to this Contract with support of the EFSI including the name and address of the Borrowers, the purpose of the financing and the type and amount of financing received under this Contract.

Each Borrower shall pay all Taxes, duties, fees and other impositions of whatsoever nature, including stamp duty and registration fees, arising out of the execution or implementation of this Contract or any related document and in the creation, perfection, registration or enforcement of any security for the Loan to the extent applicable.

Each Borrower shall pay all principal, interest, indemnities and other amounts due by it under this Contract gross without deduction of any national or local impositions whatsoever, save as may be required by applicable law. If any of the Borrowers is obliged under applicable law to make any such deduction, it will gross up the payment to the Bank so that after such deduction, the net amount received by the Bank is equivalent to the sum due.

Each Borrower shall bear all charges and expenses, including professional, banking or exchange charges incurred in connection with the preparation, execution, implementation, enforcement and termination of this Contract or any related document, any amendment, supplement or waiver in respect of this Contract or any related document, and in the amendment, creation, management, enforcement and realisation of any security for the Loan.

Each Borrower shall repay all or part of the Loan (as requested by the Bank) forthwith, together with accrued interest and all other accrued or outstanding amounts under this Contract, upon written demand being made by the Bank in accordance with the following provisions.

The Bank may make such demand immediately:

and such other loans or obligations or commitments falling under paragraphs (i) and/or (ii) above are in an aggregate principal amount in excess of USD 7,500,000.00 (seven million five hundred thousand US dollars) or its equivalent in any other currency or currencies;

administration or reorganisation (by way of voluntary arrangement, scheme of arrangement or otherwise) or an order is made or an effective resolution is passed for the winding up of any Borrower or any member of the Group, or if any Borrower or any member of the Group takes steps towards a substantial reduction in its capital, is declared insolvent or ceases or resolves to cease to carry on the whole or any substantial part of its business or activities, or any Security over any asset of any Borrower is enforced;

The Bank may also make such demand:

unless the non-compliance or circumstance giving rise to the non-compliance is capable of remedy and is remedied within 5 (five) Business Days from a notice served by the Bank on the Parent on behalf of the Borrowers.

Article 10.01 shall not restrict any other right of the Bank at law to require prepayment of the Loan.

10.03A    Fixed Rate Tranches

In case of demand under Article 10.01 in respect of any Fixed Rate Tranche, each Borrower shall pay to the Bank the amount demanded together with the Prepayment Indemnity on any amount of principal due to be prepaid. Such Prepayment Indemnity shall accrue from the due date for payment specified in the Bank’s notice of demand and be calculated on the basis that prepayment is effected on the date so specified.

10.03B    Floating Rate Tranches

In case of demand under Article 10.01 in respect of any Floating Rate Tranche, each Borrower shall pay to the Bank the amount demanded together with a sum equal to the present value of 0.15% (15 basis points) per annum calculated and accruing on the amount of principal due to be prepaid in the same manner as interest would have been calculated and would have accrued, if that amount had remained outstanding according to the original amortisation schedule of the Tranche, until the Interest Revision/Conversion Date, if any, or the Maturity Date.

The value shall be calculated at a discount rate equal to the Redeployment Rate applied as of each relevant Payment Date.

10.03C    General

Amounts due by any Borrower pursuant to this Article 10.03 shall be payable on the date of prepayment specified in the Bank’s demand.

No failure or delay or single or partial exercise by the Bank in exercising any of its rights or remedies under this Contract shall be construed as a waiver of such right or remedy. The rights and remedies provided in this Contract are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law.

This Contract and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it shall be governed by English law.

Without prejudice to any other mode of service allowed under any relevant law, each Borrower (other than the Parent) hereby irrevocably appoints LivaNova PLC at 20, Eastbourne Terrace London W2 6LG, United Kingdom, as its agent of service for the purposes of accepting service on its behalf of any writ, notice, order, judgement or other legal process (and the Parent accepts

that appointment). Each Borrower (other than the Parent) agrees that failure by a process agent to notify it of the process will not invalidate the proceedings concerned.

The Bank hereby appoints Securities Management Trust Limited of 8 Lothbury, London EC2R 7HH to be its agent for the purpose of accepting service of legal process.

Unless otherwise specifically agreed by the Bank in writing, the place of performance under this Contract shall be the seat of the Bank.

In any legal action arising out of this Contract the certificate of the Bank as to any amount or rate due to the Bank under this Contract shall, in the absence of manifest error, be prima facie evidence of such amount or rate.

A person who is not a party has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce or to enjoy the benefit of any term of this Contract.

This Contract constitutes the entire agreement between the Bank and the Borrowers in relation to the provision of the Credit hereunder, and supersedes any previous agreement, whether express or implied, on the same matter.

If at any time any term of this Contract is or becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any respect, or this Contract is or becomes ineffective in any respect, under the laws of any jurisdiction, such illegality, invalidity, unenforceability or ineffectiveness shall not affect:

Any amendment to this Contract shall be made in writing and shall be signed by the parties hereto.

This Contract may be executed in any number of counterparts, all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Each counterpart is an original, but all counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.

registered letter, facsimile or by electronic mail. Such notices and communications shall be deemed to have been received by the other party:

1on the date of delivery in relation to a hand-delivered or registered letter;

2on receipt of transmission in relation to a facsimile; or

3in the case of any electronic mail, only when actually received in readable form and only if it is addressed in such a manner as the Bank or the Borrower (as the applicable recipient) shall specify for this purpose.

The parties agree that any above communication (including via electronic mail) is an accepted form of communication and shall constitute admissible evidence in court.

The address, fax number and electronic mail address (and the department or officer, if any, for whose attention the communication is to be made) of each party for any communication to be made or document to be delivered under or in connection with this Contract is:

The Bank and each Borrower and Co-debtor shall promptly notify the other parties in writing of any change in their respective communication details.

The Recitals and following Schedules form part of this Contract:

The project concerns the company's research and development (R&D) of various new products and product improvements with a particular focus on i) cardiac surgery (heart valves and cardiopulmonary), and ii) cardiac rhythm management. The project is covering the entire product development from pre-clinical studies to clinical trials and life cycle engineering.

The project will be managed from the Italian branch in Milan of LivaNova PLC and implemented on the promoter’s R&D sites in France and Italy.

This project concerns developments for i) cardiac surgery and ii) cardiac rhythm management.

The R&D activities within the cardiopulmonary segment will focus on the development of new devices including disposables / accessories and life cycle management of existing flagship devices. Example projects would be major improvements of the S5 heart-lung machine (HLM) to bridge the way to next generation S7 HLM, a new Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) line and new Neonatal and pediatric oxygenators (NINO).

For heart valves the promoter will focus on two early clinical stage transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVR) technologies as well as on the next generation PERCEVAL sutureless valve and different tissue valves.

Within the cardiac rhythm management the promoter will focus on the development of a low cost solution for the KORA pacemaker product line, development of a full body MRI-compatible solution based on the KORA pacemaker and IMRICOR technology lead and the development of various products within the PLATINIUM platform for cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) devices. The promoter intends to further exploit its SonR technology for the development of its CRT devices. This technology consists of a sensor encapsulated inside the tip of an electrostimulation lead, which is implanted in the patient and is used to optimise the delivery of cardiac resynchronisation therapy.

The project will be implemented from January 2017 until December 2020, except for ii) cardiac rhythm management : until 30.04.2018.

The information below has to be sent to the Bank under the responsibility of:

The above-mentioned contact person(s) is (are) the responsible contact(s) for the time being.

The Borrowers shall inform the EIB immediately in case of any change.

The Borrowers shall deliver to the Bank the following information on project progress during implementation at the latest by the deadline indicated below.

The Borrowers shall deliver to the Bank the following information on project completion and initial operation at the latest by the deadline indicated below.

"EURIBOR" means:

1in respect of a relevant period of less than one month, the Screen Rate (as defined below) for a term of one month;

2in respect of a relevant period of one or more months for which a Screen Rate is available, the applicable Screen Rate for a term for the corresponding number of months; and

3in respect of a relevant period of more than one month for which a Screen Rate is not available, the rate resulting from a linear interpolation by reference to two Screen Rates, one of which is applicable for a period next shorter and the other for a period next longer than the length of the relevant period,

(the period for which the rate is taken or from which the rates are interpolated being the "Representative Period").

For the purposes of paragraphs (b) and (c) above:

If such Screen Rate is not so published, the Bank shall request the principal euro-zone offices of four major banks in the euro-zone, selected by the Bank, to quote the rate at which EUR deposits in a comparable amount are offered by each of them as at approximately 11h00, Brussels time, on the Reset Date to prime banks in the euro-zone interbank market for a period equal to the Representative Period. If at least 2 (two) quotations are provided, the rate for that Reset Date will be the arithmetic mean of the quotations.

If fewer than 2 (two) quotations are provided as requested, the rate for that Reset Date will be the arithmetic mean of the rates quoted by major banks in the euro-zone, selected by the Bank, at approximately 11h00, Brussels time, on the day which falls 2 (two) Relevant Business Days after the Reset Date, for loans in EUR in a comparable amount to leading European banks for a period equal to the Representative Period.

If no rate is available as provided above, EURIBOR shall be the rate (expressed as a percentage rate per annum) which is determined by the Bank to be the all-inclusive cost to the Bank for the funding of the relevant Tranche based upon the then applicable internally generated Bank reference rate or an alternative rate determination method reasonably determined by the Bank.

"LIBOR" means, in respect of USD:

1in respect of a relevant period of less than one month, the Screen Rate for a term of one month;

2in respect of a relevant period of one or more months for which a Screen Rate is available, the applicable Screen Rate for a term for the corresponding number of months; and

3in respect of a relevant period of more than one month for which a Screen Rate is not available, the rate resulting from a linear interpolation by reference to two Screen Rates, one of which is applicable for a period next shorter and the other for a period next longer than the length of the relevant period,

(the period for which the rate is taken or from which the rates are interpolated being the "Representative Period").

For the purposes of paragraphs (b) and (c) above:

If such Screen Rate is not so released by any financial news provider acceptable to the Bank, the Bank shall request the principal London offices of 4 (four) major banks in the London interbank market selected by the Bank to quote the rate at which USD deposits in a comparable amount are offered by each of them at approximately 11h00, London time, on the Reset Date, to prime banks in the London interbank market for a period equal to the Representative Period. If at least 2 (two) such quotations are provided, the rate will be the arithmetic mean of the quotations provided.

If fewer than 2 (two) quotations are provided as requested, the Bank shall request the principal New York City offices of 4 (four) major banks in the New York City interbank market, selected by the Bank, to quote the rate at which USD deposits in a comparable amount are offered by each of them at approximately 11h00, New York City time, on the day falling 2 (two) New York Business Days after the Reset Date, to prime banks in the European market for a period equal to the Representative Period. If at least 2 (two) such quotations are provided, the rate will be the arithmetic mean of the quotations provided.

If no rate is available as provided above, LIBOR shall be the rate (expressed as a percentage rate per annum) which is determined by the Bank to be the all-inclusive cost to the Bank for the funding of the relevant Tranche based upon the then applicable internally generated Bank reference rate or an alternative rate determination method reasonably determined by the Bank.

For the purposes of the foregoing definitions:

EMMI and EURIBOR ACI (or any successor to that function of EMMI and EURIBOR ACI as determined by the Bank) in respect of EURIBOR, or

the ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (or any successor to that function of the ICE Benchmark Administration Limited as determined by the Bank) in respect of LIBOR,

the Bank may by notice to the Borrowers amend the provision to bring it into line with such other provisions.

Please proceed with the following disbursement: