CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of

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EX-10.1 2 dex101.htm CREDIT AGREEMENT Credit Agreement

Exhibit 10.1

 


 

CREDIT AGREEMENT

 

dated as of

 

August 18, 2005

 

among

 

MEDCO HEALTH SOLUTIONS, INC.,

as Borrower

 

THE LENDERS AND ISSUING BANK

PARTY HERETO

 

and

 

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,

as Administrative Agent

 


 

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,

as Syndication Agent

 

THE BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI LTD.,

as Co-Syndication Agent

 

CITICORP NORTH AMERICA, INC.

and

WACHOVIA BANK, N.A.,

as Documentation Agents

 

J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC.

and

BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC,

as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners

 


 



TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

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ARTICLE I           DEFINITIONS    1

SECTION 1.01.

     Defined Terms    1

SECTION 1.02.

     Classification of Loans and Borrowings    21

SECTION 1.03.

     Terms Generally    22

SECTION 1.04.

     Accounting Terms; GAAP    22
ARTICLE II         THE CREDITS    22

SECTION 2.01.

     Commitments    22

SECTION 2.02.

     Loans and Borrowings    24

SECTION 2.03.

     Requests for Borrowings    24

SECTION 2.04.

     Swingline Loans    25

SECTION 2.05.

     Letters of Credit    26

SECTION 2.06.

     Funding of Borrowings    31

SECTION 2.07.

     Interest Elections    32

SECTION 2.08.

     Termination and Reduction of Commitments    33

SECTION 2.09.

     Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt    33

SECTION 2.10.

     Optional Prepayment of Loans; Mandatory Prepayment and Termination upon Change in Control    35

SECTION 2.11.

     Fees    35

SECTION 2.12.

     Interest    36

SECTION 2.13.

     Alternate Rate of Interest    37

SECTION 2.14.

     Increased Costs    38

SECTION 2.15.

     Break Funding Payments    39

SECTION 2.16.

     Taxes    39

SECTION 2.17.

     Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs    41

SECTION 2.18.

     Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders    43
ARTICLE III         REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES    44

SECTION 3.01.

     Organization; Powers    44

SECTION 3.02.

     Authorization; Enforceability    45

SECTION 3.03.

     Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts; Ranking    45

SECTION 3.04.

     Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change    45

SECTION 3.05.

     Properties; Insurance    46

SECTION 3.06.

     Litigation and Environmental Matters    46

SECTION 3.07.

     Compliance with Laws and Agreements; No Default    47

 

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SECTION 3.08.

     Investment Company Status    47

SECTION 3.09.

     Taxes    47

SECTION 3.10.

     ERISA    47

SECTION 3.11.

     Employee Matters    47

SECTION 3.12.

     Margin Regulations    48

SECTION 3.13.

     Certain Fees    48

SECTION 3.14.

     Solvency    48

SECTION 3.15.

     Disclosure    48
ARTICLE IV          CONDITIONS    48

SECTION 4.01.

     Conditions to Initial Credit Event    48

SECTION 4.02.

     Conditions to Each Credit Event    50

SECTION 4.03.

     Conditions to Each Commitment Increase Date    50
ARTICLE V           AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS    52

SECTION 5.01.

     Financial Statements; Ratings Change and Other Information    52

SECTION 5.02.

     Notices of Material Events    53

SECTION 5.03.

     Existence; Conduct of Business    54

SECTION 5.04.

     Payment of Obligations    54

SECTION 5.05.

     Maintenance of Properties; Insurance    54

SECTION 5.06.

     Books and Records; Inspection Rights    54

SECTION 5.07.

     Compliance with Laws    54

SECTION 5.08.

     Use of Proceeds and Letters of Credit    55

SECTION 5.09.

     Additional Subsidiary Guarantors    55
ARTICLE VI          NEGATIVE COVENANTS AND FINANCIAL COVENANTS    55

SECTION 6.01.

     Indebtedness    55

SECTION 6.02.

     Liens    56

SECTION 6.03.

     Fundamental Changes    57

SECTION 6.04.

     Investments, Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions    57

SECTION 6.05.

     Change in Nature of Business; Swap Agreements    58

SECTION 6.06.

     Transactions with Affiliates    58

SECTION 6.07.

     Restrictive Agreements    59

SECTION 6.08.

     Financial Covenants    60
ARTICLE VII         EVENTS OF DEFAULT    60
ARTICLE VIII       THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT; THE AGENTS    62

 

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ARTICLE IX         MISCELLANEOUS

   64

SECTION 9.01.

     Notices    64

SECTION 9.02.

     Waivers; Amendments    65

SECTION 9.03.

     Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver    66

SECTION 9.04.

     Successors and Assigns    68

SECTION 9.05.

     Survival    71

SECTION 9.06.

     Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness    71

SECTION 9.07.

     Severability    71

SECTION 9.08.

     Right of Setoff    72

SECTION 9.09.

     Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process    72

SECTION 9.10.

     WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL    72

SECTION 9.11.

     Headings    73

SECTION 9.12.

     Confidentiality    73

SECTION 9.13.

     Interest Rate Limitation    74

SECTION 9.14.

     Release of Guarantors    74

SECTION 9.15.

     USA PATRIOT Act    75

 

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SCHEDULES:

    

Schedule 2.01 – Commitments

    

Schedule 2.05 – Existing Letters of Credit

    

Schedule 3.01(a) – Subsidiaries

    

Schedule 3.01(b) – Borrower Information

    

Schedule 6.01 – Existing Indebtedness

    

Schedule 6.02 – Existing Liens

    

Schedule 6.07 – Restrictive Agreements

    

EXHIBITS:

    

Exhibit A – Form of Assignment and Assumption

    

Exhibit B – Form of Certificate of Non–Bank Status

    

Exhibit C – Form of Borrowing Request

    

Exhibit D – Form of Swingline Loan Request

    

Exhibit E – Form of Letter of Credit Request

    

Exhibit F – Form of Interest Election Request

    

Exhibit G–1 – Form of Promissory Note for Revolving Loans

    

Exhibit G–2 – Form of Promissory Note for Term Loan

    

Exhibit H–1 – Form of Opinion of Borrower’s External Counsel

    

Exhibit H–2 – Form of Opinion of Borrower’s Internal Counsel

    

Exhibit I – Form of Accountant’s Certificate

    

Exhibit J – Form of Guaranty

    

 

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CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of August 18, 2005, among MEDCO HEALTH SOLUTIONS, INC., a Delaware corporation, the Lenders and Issuing Bank from time to time party hereto and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent.

 

W I T N E S S E T H:

 

WHEREAS, the Borrower intends to acquire (the “Acquisition”), by way of merger, Accredo Health, Incorporated, a Delaware corporation (“Pre-Merger Accredo”);

 

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of February 22, 2005 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”), among the Borrower, Raptor Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Merger Sub”), and Pre-Merger Accredo, Merger Sub will be merged with and into Pre-Merger Accredo, with Merger Sub being the surviving corporation and renamed “Accredo Health, Incorporated” (such surviving corporation being referred to herein as “Accredo”);

 

WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested that the Lenders make available the credit facilities described in this Agreement to finance a portion of the cost of the Acquisition, to refinance certain existing Indebtedness of the Borrower and certain existing Indebtedness of Accredo (including pursuant to each Existing Credit Agreement (as defined below)), and for the Borrower’s and its Subsidiaries’ general corporate and working capital purposes (including making acquisitions); and

 

WHEREAS, the Lenders are willing to make such credit facilities available upon and subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth;

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, covenants and agreements set forth herein, the parties hereto agree as follows:

 

ARTICLE I

Definitions

 

SECTION 1.01. Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified below:

 

ABR”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans constituting such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate.

 

Accredo” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.

 

Acquisition” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.

 

Adjusted LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) equal to (a) the LIBO Rate for such Interest Period multiplied by (b) the Statutory Reserve Rate.

 

Administrative Agent” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as administrative agent for the Lenders and the Issuing Bank hereunder.


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

 

Affected Lender” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 2.13.

 

Affiliate” 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.

 

Agents” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent, the Co-Syndication Agent and the Documentation Agents.

 

Agreement” means this Credit Agreement, as the same may at any time be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified in accordance with the terms hereof and in effect.

 

Alternate Base Rate” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greater of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day and (b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus ½ of 1%. Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate, respectively.

 

Applicable Commitment Fee Rate” means, with respect to the Revolving Credit Commitments, for any period, the applicable percentage per annum equal to the percentage set forth below determined by reference to the category containing the higher of (a) the Credit Rating from S&P and (b) the Credit Rating from Moody’s, in each case as in effect from time to time during such period:

 

Credit Rating

(S&P or Moody’s)


   Applicable
Commitment Fee Rate


 

Category 1:

BBB+ or better and Baa1 or better

   0.100 %

Category 2:

BBB or Baa2

   0.125 %

Category 3:

BBB- or Baa3

   0.150 %

Category 4:

BB+ or Ba1

   0.250 %

Category 5:

BB or Ba2

   0.350 %

Category 6:

Worse than BB or Ba2

   0.500 %

 

provided, that (i) if, at any time, neither S&P nor Moody’s makes available any Credit Rating, the Applicable Commitment Fee Rate shall be 0.500%, (ii) to the extent that the foregoing Credit Ratings are split between the foregoing categories by more than a one category differential, then the Applicable Commitment Fee Rate at such time shall be set at one category higher than that corresponding to the lower of the two such Credit Ratings and (iii) if the Credit Ratings established by S&P or Moody’s shall be changed (other than as a result of a change in the rating

 

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system of S&P or Moody’s), such change shall be effective as of the date on which it is first announced by the applicable rating agency, irrespective of when notice of such change shall have been furnished by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders pursuant to Section 5.01 or otherwise. Each change in the Applicable Commitment Fee Rate shall apply during the period commencing on the effective date of such change and ending on the date immediately preceding the effective date of the next such change. If the rating system of S&P or Moody’s shall change, or if either such rating agency (including any successor to its rating agency business) shall cease to be in the business of rating corporate debt obligations, the Borrower and the Lenders shall negotiate in good faith to amend this definition to reflect such changed rating system or the unavailability of ratings from such rating agency (including any successor to its rating agency business) and, pending the effectiveness of any such amendment, the Applicable Commitment Fee Rate shall be determined using the S&P or Moody’s Credit Rating, as the case may be, most recently in effect prior to such change or cessation. For the purposes of this definition, the highest Credit Ratings from S&P and Moody’s shall be category 1 Credit Ratings, and the lowest Credit Ratings from S&P and Moody’s shall be category 6 Credit Ratings.

 

Applicable Interest Rate Margin” means, with respect to any Term Loans and Revolving Loans comprising ABR Loans or Eurodollar Loans, for any Interest Period, the applicable percentage per annum equal to the percentage set forth below, determined by reference to the category containing the higher of (a) the Credit Rating from S&P and (b) the Credit Rating from Moody’s, in each case corresponding to such ABR Loan or Eurodollar Loan, as in effect on the first day of such Interest Period:

 

Credit Rating

(S&P or Moody’s)


   Term Loans

    Revolving Loans

 
   ABR
Loans


    Eurodollar
Loans


    ABR
Loans


    Eurodollar
Loans


 

Category 1:

BBB+ or better and Baa1 or better

   0.0 %   0.450 %   0.0 %   0.450 %

Category 2:

BBB or Baa2

   0.0 %   0.500 %   0.0 %   0.500 %

Category 3:

BBB- or Baa3

   0.0 %   0.625 %   0.0 %   0.625 %

Category 4:

BB+ or Ba1

   0.0 %   0.750 %   0.0 %   0.750 %

Category 5:

BB or Ba2

   0.25 %   1.25 %   0.25 %   1.25 %

Category 6:

Worse than BB or Ba2

   0.75 %   1.75 %   0.75 %   1.75 %

 

provided, that (i) with respect to Term Loans and Revolving Loans (A) to the extent that the foregoing Credit Ratings are split between the foregoing categories by more than a one category differential, then the Applicable Interest Rate Margin at such time shall be set at one category higher than that corresponding to the lower of the two such Credit Ratings and (B) if, at any time, neither S&P nor Moody’s makes available any Credit Rating, the Applicable Interest Rate Margin for any Term Loans comprising ABR Loans or Eurodollar Loans shall be 0.75 and 1.75%, respectively, and the Applicable Interest Rate Margin for any Revolving Loans comprising ABR Loans or Eurodollar Loans shall be 0.75% and 1.75%, respectively, at such time; and (ii) with respect to Term Loans and Revolving Loans, if the Credit Ratings established by S&P or Moody’s shall be changed (other than as a result of a change in the rating system of S&P or

 

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Moody’s), such change shall be effective as of the date on which it is first announced by the applicable rating agency, irrespective of when notice of such change shall have been furnished by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders pursuant to Section 5.01 or otherwise. Each change in the Applicable Interest Rate Margin shall apply during the period commencing on the effective date of such change and ending on the date immediately preceding the effective date of the next such change. If the rating system of S&P or Moody’s shall change, or if either such rating agency (including any successor to its rating agency business) shall cease to be in the business of rating corporate debt obligations, the Borrower and the Lenders shall negotiate in good faith to amend this definition to reflect such changed rating system or the unavailability of ratings from such rating agency (including any successor to its rating agency business) and, pending the effectiveness of any such amendment, the Applicable Interest Margin Rate shall be determined using the S&P or Moody’s Credit Rating, as the case may be, most recently in effect prior to such change or cessation. For the purposes of this definition, the highest Credit Ratings from S&P and Moody’s shall be category 1 Credit Ratings, and the lowest Credit Ratings from S&P and Moody’s shall be category 6 Credit Ratings.

 

Applicable Percentage” means, with respect to any Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment or Term Loan Commitment, the percentage of the Lenders’ total Revolving Credit Commitments or total Term Loan Commitments, as the case may be, represented by such Lender’s applicable Commitment. If the Revolving Credit Commitments or Term Loan Commitments have respectively terminated or expired, the Applicable Percentages shall be determined based upon the Revolving Credit Commitments or Term Loan Commitments, respectively, most recently in effect, giving effect to any permitted assignments made pursuant to Section 9.04.

 

Approved Fund” means (a) with respect to any Lender, a CLO managed or administered by such Lender, an Affiliate of such Lender or an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages such Lender and (b) with respect to any Lender that is a fund that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans or similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business, any other fund that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans or similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business and is managed by the same investment advisor as such Lender or by an Affiliate of such investment advisor.

 

Assignment and Assumption” means (a) an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 9.04), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in the form of Exhibit A or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent or (b) any assignment in accordance with Section 2.18.

 

Availability Period” means, with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility, from and including the Effective Date to, but excluding, the earlier of the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility and the date of termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to the terms hereof.

 

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

 

Borrower” means Medco Health Solutions, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

 

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Borrowing” means an advance of (a) Revolving Loans of the same Type, made, converted or continued on the same date and, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect, (b) Term Loans or (c) a Swingline Loan, as applicable.

 

Borrowing Request” means a request by the Borrower for a Revolving Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.03.

 

Business Day” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to remain closed; provided, that, when used in connection with a Eurodollar Loan, the term “Business Day” shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open for dealings in dollar deposits in the London interbank market.

 

Capital Lease” means any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases on a balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries under GAAP.

 

Capital Lease Obligations” means the obligations of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries to pay rent or other amounts under any Capital Lease, and the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP.

 

Cash Management Obligation” means, any direct or indirect liability, contingent or otherwise, of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries in respect of cash management services (including treasury, depository, overdraft, credit or debit card, electronic funds transfer, purchasing card obligations and other cash management arrangements) provided by the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any Affiliate of any of them, including obligations for the payment of fees, interest, charges, expenses, attorneys’ fees and disbursements in connection therewith.

 

Certificate of Non-Bank Status” means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit B.

 

Change in Control” means (a) the acquisition of ownership, directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record, by any Person or group (each within the meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules of the SEC thereunder as in effect on the date hereof) not an Affiliate of the Borrower of Equity Interests representing more than 30% of the aggregate ordinary voting power represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the Borrower, (b) during any period of up to 12 consecutive months commencing after the Effective Date, the occupation of a majority of the seats (other than vacant seats) on the board of directors of the Borrower by Persons who were neither nominated nor appointed by a vote of a majority or more of the members of the Borrower’s board of directors who were either in office at the beginning of such 12 month period or were so nominated or appointed, or (c) the occurrence of a “Change of Control” as defined in the Senior Notes Indenture.

 

Change in Law” means (a) the adoption of any law, rule or regulation after the date of this Agreement, (b) any change in any law, rule or regulation or in the interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority after the date of this Agreement or (c) compliance by any Lender or the Issuing Bank (or, for purposes of Section 2.14(b), by any lending office of such Lender or by such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company, if any) with any request, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority made or issued after the date of this Agreement.

 

 

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Class”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans constituting such Borrowing, are Revolving Loans, Term Loans or Swingline Loans.

 

CLO” means any entity (whether a corporation, partnership, trust or otherwise) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans or similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business and is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.

 

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

 

Commitment” means any of the Revolving Credit Commitments and Term Loan Commitments.

 

Commitment Increase Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(c).

 

Consolidated EBITDA” means, for any period, Consolidated Net Income for such period plus (A) without duplication and to the extent deducted in determining such Consolidated Net Income, the sum of (1) the aggregate amount of Consolidated Interest Expense for such period, (2) the aggregate provision for federal, state, local or foreign taxes based on income or profits for such period, (3) all amounts attributable to depreciation, amortization (including amortization of goodwill or other intangible assets) or impairment of goodwill or other intangible assets for such period, (4) any extraordinary or non-recurring non-cash charges for such period (provided, however, that cash expenditures in respect of charges added back pursuant to this clause (4) shall be deducted in determining Consolidated EBITDA for the period during which such expenditures are made), (5) the aggregate amount of all non-cash compensation charges incurred during such period arising from the grant of or the issuance of stock, stock options or other equity awards, and (6) the aggregate amount of any extraordinary losses (less extraordinary gains) plus any loss (less any gains) realized by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with any dispositions that occur during the applicable period and minus (B) any extraordinary or non-recurring non-cash gains for such period.

 

Consolidated Interest Expense” means, for any period, the amount of interest expense reflected on the consolidated statement of income of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period in conformity with GAAP.

 

Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, the amount of net income reflected on the consolidated statement of income of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period in conformity with GAAP.

 

Consolidated Net Worth” means, at any date, all amounts that would, in conformity with GAAP, be included on a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries under stockholders’ equity at such date.

 

Consolidated Total Debt” means, as of the date of determination, the aggregate amount of Indebtedness reflected on the consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its

 

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Subsidiaries as of such date in conformity with GAAP, plus, without duplication, “synthetic leases”, letters of credit (but only to the extent drawn and not reimbursed) and the aggregate amount advanced (whether in the form of capital or principal, including any capitalized yield thereon) which is outstanding under the Securitization.

 

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

 

Co-Syndication Agent” means The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd., in its capacity as Co-Syndication Agent hereunder.

 

Credit Event” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.02.

 

Credit Rating” means the Borrower’s long-term senior unsecured non-credit enhanced debt rating.

 

Default” means any event or condition which constitutes an Event of Default or which upon notice, lapse of time or both would, unless cured or waived, become an Event of Default.

 

Documentation Agents” means Citicorp North America, Inc. and Wachovia Bank, N.A., in their capacity as Documentation Agents hereunder.

 

dollars” or “$” refers to lawful money of the United States of America.

 

Effective Date” means the first date on which the conditions set forth in Section 4.01 have been satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 9.02) and this Agreement shall have become effective in accordance with its terms.

 

Eligible Assignee” means (a) any Lender, (b) an Affiliate or Approved Fund of any Lender, in each case engaged in making, purchasing and holding commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business, (c) any financial institution or other entity, in each case engaged in making, purchasing and holding commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business, (d) any commercial bank, or (e) any other Person (other than a natural Person) acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower.

 

Environmental Laws” means all laws, rules, regulations, codes, ordinances, orders, decrees, judgments, injunctions or binding agreements issued, promulgated or entered into by any Governmental Authority, relating in any way to the environment, preservation or reclamation of natural resources, the management, release or threatened release of any Hazardous Material or to health and safety matters.

 

Environmental Liability” means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of the Borrower or any Subsidiary directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or

 

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threatened release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.

 

Equity Interests” means, with respect to any Person, shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests in a limited liability company, beneficial interests in a trust or other equity ownership interests issued by such Person, and any warrants, options or other rights entitling the holder thereof to purchase or acquire any such equity interest.

 

ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time.

 

ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that, together with the Borrower, is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code or, solely for purposes of Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code, is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code.

 

ERISA Event” means (a) any “reportable event”, as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder with respect to a Plan (other than an event for which the 30-day notice period is waived); (b) the existence with respect to any Plan of an “accumulated funding deficiency” (as defined in Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not waived; (c) the filing pursuant to Section 412(d) of the Code or Section 303(d) of ERISA of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard with respect to any Plan; (d) the incurrence by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Plan; (e) the receipt by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from the PBGC or a plan administrator of any notice relating to an intention to terminate any Plan or Plans or to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan; (f) the incurrence by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability with respect to the withdrawal or partial withdrawal from any Plan or Multiemployer Plan; or (g) the receipt by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, or the receipt by any Multiemployer Plan from the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent or in reorganization, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA.

 

Eurodollar”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans constituting such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate.

 

Event of Default” has the meaning assigned to such term in Article VII.

 

Excluded Subsidiaries” means the Securitization SPV and the Insurance Subsidiaries.

 

Excluded Taxes” means, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, the Issuing Bank or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder, (a) income or franchise taxes imposed on (or measured by) its net income or profits by reason of any connection between, as applicable, the Administrative Agent or such Lender or any other party entitled to receive payment hereunder and the relevant taxing jurisdiction, including, without limitation, a connection arising from such other Person being or having been a citizen, domiciliary, or resident of such jurisdiction, being organized in

 

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such jurisdiction, or having or having had a permanent establishment, branch or other fixed place of business therein, but excluding a connection arising solely from such Person having executed, delivered, performed its obligations or received any payment under this Agreement, (b) any Taxes imposed by reason of the Administrative Agent, such Lender or such other party treated as a “conduit” under U.S. Treasury Regulation Section 1.881-3 or applicable successor provision, (c) any branch profits taxes imposed by the United States of America or any similar tax imposed by any other jurisdiction in which the Borrower is located and (d) in the case of a Foreign Lender (other than an assignee pursuant to a request by the Borrower under Section 2.18(b)), any Tax that is imposed on amounts payable to such Foreign Lender at the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a new lending office) or is attributable to such Foreign Lender’s failure to comply with Section 2.16(e), except to the extent that such Foreign Lender (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, at the time of designation of a new lending office (or assignment), to receive additional amounts from the Borrower with respect to such Tax pursuant to Section 2.16(a).

 

Executive Officer” means the chief executive officer, the chief financial officer, the general counsel, the chief accounting officer, the controller, the treasurer or any other “officer” (as defined in Rule 16a-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) of the Borrower.

 

Existing Credit Agreements” means (a) the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 26, 2004, among the Borrower, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (formerly known as JPMorgan Chase Bank), as revolving credit administrative agent and collateral agent, Citicorp North America, Inc., as term loan administrative agent, and the lenders party thereto, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time prior to the date hereof and (b) the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of July 21, 2004, among Pre-Merger Accredo, certain subsidiaries of Pre-Merger Accredo, as guarantors, the lenders named therein, JPMorgan Chase Bank, as syndication agent, Wachovia Bank, National Association and First Tennessee Bank National Association, as co-documentation agents, and Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time prior to the date hereof.

 

Existing Letters of Credit” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(k).

 

Facilities” means the Revolving Credit Facility and the Term Loan Facility.

 

Federal Funds Effective Rate” means, for any day, the weighted average (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers, as published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the quotations for such day for such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it.

 

Fee Letters” means, collectively, each letter agreement entered into by Borrower with any of the Administrative Agent and the Joint Lead Arrangers with respect to the payment of fees by the Borrower in connection with the Facilities.

 

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Financial Officer” means the chief financial officer, the principal accounting officer, the treasurer and the controller of the Borrower.

 

Fitch” means Fitch Ratings or any successor rating agency business thereof.

 

Foreign Lender” means any Lender that is not a “United States person” (as such term is defined in Section 7701(a)(3) of the Code).

 

GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America.

 

Governmental Authority” means the government of the United States of America, any other nation or any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of government.

 

Guarantee” of or by any Person (the “guarantor”) means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of the guarantor guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other obligation of any other Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of the guarantor, direct or indirect, (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation, or any security for such Indebtedness or other obligation, (b) to purchase or lease property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment thereof, (c) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation or (d) as an account party in respect of any letter of credit or letter of guarantee issued to support such Indebtedness or other obligation; provided, that the term “Guarantee” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business.

 

Guaranteed Obligations” means (i) the Obligations, (ii) all Cash Management Obligations owing to the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any of their respective Affiliates and (iii) all Hedging Obligations owing to one or more Hedging Creditors, in each case to the extent constituting a monetary payment obligation.

 

Guaranteed Parties” means (i) the Administrative Agent, (ii) each Lender, (iii) each Issuing Bank, (iv) each Indemnitee, (v) the Administrative Agent, each Lender and each of their respective Affiliates in respect of any Cash Management Obligation owing to it, (vi) each Hedging Creditor in respect of any Hedging Obligation owing to it and (vii) any other holder of a Guaranteed Obligation.

 

Guarantors” means the Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor.

 

Guaranty” means the Guaranty to be executed and delivered by the Borrower, Accredo and each other Subsidiary Guarantor, substantially in the form of Exhibit J, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

 

Hazardous Materials” means all explosive or radioactive substances or wastes and all hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants, including petroleum or

 

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petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.

 

Hedging Contract” means any Swap Agreement designed to alter the risk exposure of the Borrower or any Subsidiary with respect in interest rates, currency values, equity prices or commodity prices.

 

Hedging Creditor” means the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any of their respective Affiliates from time to time party to one or more Hedging Contracts with the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (even if the Administrative Agent or any such Lender for any reason ceases after the execution of such agreement to be a party hereto), and its successors and assigns, and “Hedging Creditors” means any two or more of them, collectively.

 

Hedging Obligations” of any Person means all obligations (including, without limitation, any amounts which accrue after the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding with respect to such Person, whether or not allowed or allowable as a claim under any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding) of such Person in respect of any Hedging Contract, excluding any amounts which such Person is entitled to set-off against its obligations under applicable law.

 

Incremental Term Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(c).

 

Indebtedness” of any Person means, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money, (b) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, (c) all obligations of such Person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to property acquired by such Person (other than customary reservations or retentions of title under agreements with suppliers entered into in the ordinary course of business), (d) all obligations of such Person in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services (excluding current accounts payable, rebates to customers and vendors and other accrued expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business), (e) all Indebtedness of others secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property owned or acquired by such Person, whether or not the Indebtedness secured thereby has been assumed; provided, that the amount of any Indebtedness of others that constitutes Indebtedness of such Person solely by reason of this clause (e) shall, in the event that such Indebtedness is limited recourse to such property (without recourse to such Person), for purposes of this Agreement, not exceed the greater of the book value or the fair market value of such property subject to such Lien, (f) all Guarantees by such Person of Indebtedness of others, (g) all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person, (h) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person as an account party in respect of the face amount of letters of credit and letters of guarantee, (i) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person in respect of the face amount of bankers’ acceptances, (j) Off-Balance Sheet Liabilities and (k) all aggregate principal component amounts advanced to such Person and outstanding under any accounts receivable securitization; provided, that Indebtedness shall not include deferred tax liabilities, employee and retiree benefit obligations or endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business. The Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any other entity (including any partnership in which such Person is a general partner) to the extent such Person is liable therefor as a result of such Person’s ownership interest in or other relationship with such entity, except to the extent the terms of such Indebtedness provide that such Person is not liable therefor.

 

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Indemnified Taxes” means Taxes other than Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes.

 

Indemnitee” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.03(b).

 

Information Memorandum” means the Information Memorandum dated July 2005 prepared with respect to the Borrower and the Transactions.

 

Insurance Subsidiary” means each Subsidiary of the Borrower that engages primarily in insurance-related activities that are connected with the business of the Borrower or one or more of its Subsidiaries (including in connection with the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit program) and identified in writing by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent as an “Insurance Subsidiary.”

 

Interest Election Request” means a request by the Borrower to convert or continue a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.07.

 

Interest Payment Date” means (a) with respect to any ABR Loan (other than a Swingline Loan), the last day of each March, June, September and December and (b) with respect to any Eurodollar Loan, the last day of the Interest Period applicable to the Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing with an Interest Period of more than three months’ duration, each day prior to the last day of such Interest Period that occurs at intervals of three months’ duration after the first day of such Interest Period and (c) with respect to any Swingline Loan, the day that such Loan is required to be repaid.

 

Interest Period” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that is one, two, three or six months thereafter (or nine or twelve months thereafter, unless a Lender has notified the Administrative Agent that Eurodollar Borrowings for such period is unavailable from such Lender) as the Borrower may elect; provided, that (i) if any Interest Period would end on a day other than a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such next succeeding Business Day would fall in the next calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day and (ii) any Interest Period that commences on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the last calendar month of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the last calendar month of such Interest Period. For purposes hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date on which such Borrowing is made and, in the case of a Revolving Borrowing, thereafter shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such Borrowing.

 

Investment” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.04.

 

Investment Grade Ratings” means Credit Ratings of Baa3 or better by Moody’s (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of Moody’s) and BBB- or better by S&P (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of S&P).

 

Issuing Bank” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as the issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, its successors in such capacity as provided in Section 2.05(i) and, to the extent provided in Section 2.05(k), each issuer of an Existing Letter of Credit deemed to be an Issuing Bank hereunder. The Issuing Bank may, in its discretion, arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be issued by Affiliates of the Issuing Bank, in which case the term “Issuing Bank” shall include any such Affiliate with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Affiliate.

 

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Joint Lead Arrangers” means J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and Banc of America Securities LLC, in their capacity as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners hereunder.

 

L/C Disbursement” means a payment made by the Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of Credit.

 

L/C Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit at such time plus (b) the aggregate amount of all L/C Disbursements that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the Borrower at such time. The L/C Exposure of any Lender at any time shall be its Applicable Percentage of the Revolving Credit Commitments multiplied by the total L/C Exposure at such time.

 

Lenders” means the Persons listed on Schedule 2.01 and any other Person that shall have become a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption, other than any such Person that ceases to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption. Unless the context otherwise requires, the term “Lenders” includes each Swingline Lender.

 

Letter of Credit” means any letter of credit issued pursuant to this Agreement.

 

LIBO Rate” means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period, the rate appearing on Page 3750 of the Dow Jones Market Service (or on any successor or substitute page of such Service, or any successor to or substitute for such Service, providing rate quotations comparable to those currently provided on such page of such Service, as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent from time to time for purposes of providing quotations of interest rates applicable to dollar deposits in the London interbank market) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, as the rate for dollar deposits with a maturity comparable to such Interest Period. In the event that such rate is not available at such time for any reason, then the “LIBO Rate” with respect to such Eurodollar Borrowing for such Interest Period shall be the rate (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) at which dollar deposits of $5,000,000 and for a maturity comparable to such Interest Period are offered by the principal London office of the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds in the London interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period.

 

Lien” means, with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, charge or security interest in, on or of such asset, (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement (or any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) relating to such asset and (c) in the case of securities, any purchase option, call or similar right of a third party with respect to such securities. The filing of a Uniform Commercial Code financing statement that is a protective lease filing in respect of an operating lease that does not constitute a security interest in the leased property or otherwise give rise to a Lien does not constitute a Lien solely on account of being filed in a public office.

 

Loan” means any loan made by a Lender to the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement.

 

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Loan Documents” means, collectively, this Agreement, each Promissory Note, the Fee Letters, the Guaranty and, to the extent expressly designated as a “Loan Document” by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, each certificate, agreement or document executed by the Borrower or any Guarantor and delivered to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with or pursuant to any of the foregoing.

 

Loan Parties” means the Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor.

 

Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, operations or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (b) the ability of the Borrower to perform any of its obligations under this Agreement or any other Loan Document subject to applicable cure and grace periods or (c) the validity and enforceability of this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

 

Material Indebtedness” means Indebtedness (other than the Loans and Letters of Credit), or net termination payment obligations in respect of one or more Swap Agreements, of any one or more of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount exceeding (a) for purposes of clause (f) of Article VII, $50,000,000, and (b) for purposes of clause (g) of Article VII, $100,000,000. For purposes of determining Material Indebtedness, the “principal amount” of the obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary in respect of any Swap Agreement at any time shall be the maximum aggregate amount (giving effect to any netting agreements) that the Borrower or such Subsidiary would be required to pay if such Swap Agreement were terminated at such time.

 

Maturity Date” means:

 

(a) with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility, the earlier of (i) August 18, 2010 and (ii) the optional prepayment in full of the Revolving Loans and cancellation by the Borrower of the Lenders’ total Revolving Credit Commitments; and

 

(b) with respect to the Term Loans, the earlier of (i) August 18, 2010 and (ii) the optional prepayment in full of the Term Loans.

 

Merger Agreement” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.

 

Merger Documents” means the Merger Agreement and all schedules, exhibits, annexes and amendments thereto and all other documents, instruments and agreements affecting the terms thereof or entered into in connection therewith.

 

Merger Sub” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.

 

Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or any successor to the rating agency business thereof.

 

Multiemployer Plan” means a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.

 

Non-Funding Lender” means at any time, any Lender that, within one Business Day of when due, (i) has failed to make a Loan or purchase a participation interest in a Swingline Loan or an L/C Exposure required pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, (ii) other than as set

 

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forth in clause (i) above, has failed to pay to the Administrative Agent or any Lender an amount owed by such Lender pursuant to the terms of the Agreement or any other Loan Document unless such amount is subject to a good faith dispute or (iii) has been deemed insolvent or has become subject to a receivership or insolvency event.

 

Obligations” means the Loans, the L/C Exposure and all other amounts, obligations, covenants and duties owing by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, any Issuing Bank, any Affiliate of any of them or any Indemnitee, of every type and description (whether by reason of an extension of credit, opening or amendment of a letter of credit or payment of any draft drawn thereunder, loan, guarantee, indemnification or otherwise), present or future, arising under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assignment), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising and however acquired and whether or not evidenced by any note, guarantee or other instrument or for the payment of money, including all letter of credit and other fees, interest, charges, expenses, attorneys’ fees and disbursements and other sums chargeable to the Borrower under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and all obligations of the Borrower under any Loan Document to provide cash collateral for L/C Exposure.

 

Off-Balance Sheet Liability” of a Person shall mean (i) any liability under any Sale and Leaseback or any lease leaseback transaction which is not a Capital Lease Obligation and (ii) any liability under any so called “synthetic lease” transaction entered into by such Person.

 

Other Taxes” means any and all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any payment made hereunder or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement.

 

Participant” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.04.

 

PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in ERISA and any successor entity performing similar functions.

 

Permitted Encumbrances” means:

 

(a) Liens imposed by law for taxes, assessments or governmental charges, levies or claims that are not yet delinquent or which are being contested in compliance with paragraphs (a) and (b) of Section 5.04;

 

(b) carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s and other like Liens arising by operation of law, arising in the ordinary course of business and securing obligations that do not, individually or in the aggregate, materially detract from the value of the property or assets which are the subject of such lien or materially impair the use thereof in the operation of the business of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or are being contested in compliance with paragraphs (a) and (b) of Section 5.04;

 

(c) Liens arising, and deposits made, in the ordinary course of business in compliance with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security laws or regulations;

 

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(d) Liens incurred or deposits made to secure the performance of bids, tenders, trade contracts, leases, statutory obligations, surety, indemnity, release and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature, in each case in the ordinary course of business;

 

(e) judgment Liens in respect of judgments that do not constitute an Event of Default under paragraph (k) of Article VII;

 

(f) any interest or title of a lessor under an operating lease entered into in the ordinary course of business, or any statutory and common law landlord Liens;

 

(g) Liens arising out of consignment or similar arrangements for sales of goods entered into in the ordinary course of business;

 

(h) easements, ground leases, zoning restrictions, building codes, rights-of-way, minor defects and irregularity in title and similar encumbrances on real property imposed by law or arising in the ordinary course of business that do not secure any monetary obligations and do not materially detract from the value of the affected property or interfere with the ordinary conduct of business of the Borrower or any Subsidiary;

 

(i) licenses of patents, trademarks or other intellectual property rights granted by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;

 

(j) Liens arising solely by virtue of any statutory or common law provision relating to bankers’ liens, rights of set-off or similar rights, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business;

 

(k) leases or subleases granted to third persons in the ordinary course of business not interfering in any material respect with the business of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and not materially detracting from the value of the property subject to such lease or sublease; and

 

(l) the replacement, extension or renewal of any Lien permitted hereunder; provided, that such replacement, extension or renewal Lien shall not cover any property other than the property subject thereto prior to such replacement, extension or renewal;

 

provided, that the term “Permitted Encumbrances” shall not include any Lien securing Indebtedness for borrowed money.

 

Permitted Investments” means:

 

(a) direct obligations of, or obligations the principal of and interest on which are unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States of America (or by any agency or instrumentality thereof to the extent such obligations are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States of America), in each case maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof;

 

(b) investments in certificates of deposit, time deposits, eurodollar time deposits and similar instruments with maturities of one year or less from the date of acquisition, banker’s acceptances maturing within 180 days from the date of acquisition thereof, money

 

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market deposit accounts, and demand deposits made in the ordinary course of business, in each case with any domestic office of any commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States of America or any State thereof which has a combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than $500,000,000;

 

(c) fully collateralized repurchase agreements with a term of not more than 60 days for securities described in paragraph (a) above and entered into with a financial institution satisfying the criteria described in paragraph (b) above;

 

(d) securities issued or fully guaranteed by any State, Commonwealth, municipality or sovereignty of the United States of America, or any political subdivision thereof, and rated at least “P-1”, “VMIG-1”, or “MIG-1” by Moody’s, “A1” or “SP-1” by S&P, or “F1” by Fitch, and AAA auction rate securities of any such issuer;

 

(e) commercial paper rated at least A-2 or the equivalent thereof by S&P or P-2 or the equivalent thereof by Moody’s and in each case maturing within one year after the date of acquisition;

 

(f) money market funds that (i) comply with the criteria set forth in SEC Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 or (ii) at least 95% of the assets of which constitute Permitted Investments of the kinds described in clauses (a) through (e) of this definition; and

 

(g) other investment instruments with the written consent of the Administrative Agent.

 

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

 

Plan” means any employee pension benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan) subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, and in respect of which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is (or, if such plan were terminated, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an “employer” as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.

 

Pre-Merger Accredo” has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals hereto.

 

Prime Rate” means the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as its prime rate in effect at its principal office in New York City; each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective from and including the date such change is publicly announced as being effective.

 

Promissory Note” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.09(e).

 

Receivables and Related Assets” means accounts receivable (including any rebate receivables) and any related underlying contractual rights, and solely to the extent evidencing, constituting or relating to such assets or proceeds thereof, each of the following: instruments, chattel paper, obligations, general intangibles, deposit accounts and other similar assets, including interests in returned merchandise or returned goods, the sale or lease of which give rise to the foregoing, related contractual rights, guarantees, insurance proceeds, collections, other related assets and proceeds of all the foregoing.

 

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Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.09(c).

 

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

 

Required Class Lenders” means, at any time (a) with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility, the Lenders having more than 50% of the Revolving Credit Commitments or, after the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility, the aggregate Revolving Credit Exposure at such time or (b) with respect to the Term Loan Facility, the Lenders holding more than 50% of the principal amount of the Term Loans at such time. A Non-Funding Lender shall not be included in the calculation of “Required Class Lenders.

 

Required Lenders” means, at any time, Lenders having more than 50% in total of (a) the aggregate outstanding amount of the Revolving Credit Commitments or, after the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility, the aggregate Revolving Credit Exposure and (b) the principal amount of the Term Loans then outstanding. A Non-Funding Lender shall not be included in the calculation of “Required Lenders.

 

Revolving Credit Commitment” means, with respect to each Revolving Credit Lender, the commitment of such Lender to make Revolving Loans and to acquire participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans hereunder, expressed as an amount representing the maximum aggregate amount of such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Exposure hereunder, as such commitment may be (a) reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.08, (b) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to Sections 2.18 or 9.04. and (c) increased to reflect each additional commitment by a Lender that is included as part of a Revolving Credit Facility Increase. The initial amount of each Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment is set forth opposite such Revolving Credit Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01 under the heading “Revolving Credit Commitment”, or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Revolving Credit Lender shall have assumed its Revolving Credit Commitment, as applicable. The aggregate amount of the Revolving Credit Lenders’ Revolving Credit Commitments as of the Effective Date is $500,000,000.

 

Revolving Credit Exposure” means, with respect to any Lender at any time, the sum of the outstanding principal amount of such Lender’s Revolving Loans and its L/C Exposure and Swingline Exposure (each under the Revolving Credit Facility) at such time.

 

Revolving Credit Facility “ means the Revolving Credit Commitments and the provisions herein related to the Revolving Loans (including Swingline Loans) and Letters of Credit.

 

Revolving Credit Facility Increase” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(c).

 

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Revolving Credit Lenders” means each Lender having a Revolving Credit Commitment or having made Revolving Loans or acquired participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans.

 

Revolving Loans” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.01(b).

 

Sale and Leaseback” means any lease of any property (whether real, personal or mixed), whether now owned or hereafter acquired, to which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, directly or indirectly, becomes or remains liable as lessee or as a guarantor or other surety and which the Borrower has sold or transferred or is to sell or to transfer to any other Person (other than any of its Subsidiaries).

 

S&P” means Standard & Poor’s or any successor rating agency business thereof.

 

SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor thereto.

 

Securitization” means the program under which the Borrower and the Securitization SPV securitize Receivables and Related Assets entered into among the Borrower, the Securitization SPV and the other parties thereto on or before the Effective Date, as the same may be amended, supplemented, modified or replaced from time to time in accordance herewith.

 

Securitization Documents” means the Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement, dated as of September 22, 2003, by and among the Securitization SPV, as Seller, the Borrower, as Servicer, each Person party thereto as a Conduit Purchaser or Committed Purchaser, Citicorp North America, Inc. and Bank One, NA (Main Office Chicago), as Managing Agents, and Citicorp North America, Inc., as Administrative Agent, as amended on June 15, 2004, and as further amended on June 24, 2004, and as extended on June 25, 2004, the Receivables Purchase and Contribution Agreement, dated as of August 8, 2003, between the Borrower, as Originator and Servicer, and the Securitization SPV, as Buyer, and each other document or agreement entered into pursuant thereto with respect to the Securitization, and as such documents may be amended, supplemented, modified or replaced from time to time.

 

Securitization SPV” means Medco Health Receivables, LLC, a bankruptcy-remote Subsidiary of the Borrower established pursuant to the Securitization.

 

Senior Notes Indenture” means the Indenture, dated as of August 12, 2003, between the Borrower, as issuer, and U.S. Bank Trust National Association, as trustee, with respect to the Borrower’s 7.25% senior notes due August 15, 2013 issued in an aggregate principal amount of $500,000,000.

 

Significant Subsidiary” means, at any time, a Subsidiary that has or represents at least 5% of (i) the consolidated gross revenues of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal year then most recently ended and/or (ii) the consolidated assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the last day of the fiscal year then most recently ended; provided, that if a combination of Subsidiaries would, on a combined basis, represent at least 5% of either of the foregoing amounts, then each such Subsidiary shall be deemed a “Significant Subsidiary” for the purposes hereof.

 

Solvent” means, with respect to any Person, that as of the date of determination (a) the sum of such Person’s debt (including contingent liabilities) does not exceed all of its

 

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property, at a present fair valuation on a going concern basis; (b) the fair saleable value of the property on a going concern basis of such Person is not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liabilities on such Person’s then existing debts as they become absolute and matured; (c) such Person’s capital is not unreasonably small in relation to its business or any contemplated or undertaken transaction; and (d) such Person does not intend to incur, or believe (nor should it reasonably believe) that it will incur, debts beyond its ability to pay such debts as they become due. For purposes of this definition, the amount of any contingent liability at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in light of all of the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability (irrespective of whether such contingent liabilities meet the criteria for accrual under Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 5).

 

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

 

subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person (the “parent”) at any date, any corporation, limited liability company, 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 such financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP as of such date, as well as any other corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other entity of which securities or other ownership interests representing more than 50% of the ordinary voting power or, in the case of a partnership, more than 50% of the general partnership interests are, as of such date, owned, controlled or held.

 

Subsidiary” means any subsidiary of the Borrower.

 

Subsidiary Guarantors” means Accredo and each Subsidiary of the Borrower that becomes a party to the Guaranty pursuant to Section 5.09.

 

Swap Agreement” means any agreement with respect to any swap, forward, future or derivative transaction or option or similar agreement involving, or settled by reference to, one or more rates, currencies, commodities, equity or debt instruments or securities, or economic, financial or pricing indices or measures of economic, financial or pricing risk or value or any similar transaction or any combination of these transactions; provided, that no phantom stock or similar plan providing for payments only on account of services provided by current or former directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries shall be a Swap Agreement.

 

Swingline Exposure” means, at any time hereunder, the aggregate principal amount of all Swingline Loans outstanding at such time. The Swingline Exposure of any

 

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Revolving Credit Lender at any time shall be such Lender’s Applicable Percentage with respect to Revolving Credit Commitments multiplied by the aggregate principal amount of all Swingline Loans outstanding at such time.

 

Swingline Lender” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as a Lender of Swingline Loans hereunder, and its successors in such capacity.

 

Swingline Loan” means a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.04.

 

Syndication Agent” means Bank of America, N.A., in its capacity as Syndication Agent hereunder.

 

Taxes” means any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings imposed by any Governmental Authority.

 

Term Lender” means each Lender having a Term Loan Commitment or having made a Term Loan.

 

Term Loan” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.01(a).

 

Term Loan Commitment” means, with respect to each Term Lender, the commitment of such Term Lender to make a Term Loan on the Effective Date in the principal amount set forth on Schedule 2.01 opposite such Term Lender’s name under the heading “Term Loan Commitment”. The aggregate amount of the Term Lenders’ Term Loan Commitments as of the Effective Date is $750,000,000.

 

Term Loan Facility” means the Term Loan Commitments and the provisions herein related to the Term Loans.

 

Third-Party Claim” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.03(b).

 

Total Commitment” means, with respect to each Lender, the sum of such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment and Term Loan Commitment.

 

Transactions” means the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents by the Loan Parties party thereto, the borrowing of Loans, the use of the proceeds thereof and the issuance of Letters of Credit hereunder and all other transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents (other than the Acquisition).

 

Type”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether the rate of interest on such Loan, or on the Loans constituting such Borrowing, is determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate or the Alternate Base Rate.

 

Withdrawal Liability” means liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.

 

SECTION 1.02. Classification of Loans and Borrowings. For purposes of this Agreement, Loans may be classified and referred to by Class (e.g., a “Revolving Loan”) or by Type (e.g., a “Eurodollar Loan”) or by Class and Type (e.g., a “Eurodollar Revolving Loan”).

 

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Borrowings also may be classified and referred to by Class (e.g., a “Revolving Borrowing”) or by Type (e.g., a “Eurodollar Borrowing”) or by Class and Type (e.g., a “Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing”).

 

SECTION 1.03. Terms Generally. The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”. The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall”. Unless the context requires otherwise (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein), (b) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns, (c) the words “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder”, and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (d) all references herein to Articles, Sections, paragraphs, clauses, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to, respectively, Articles, Sections paragraphs and clauses of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement and (e) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights.

 

SECTION 1.04. Accounting Terms; GAAP. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature shall be construed in accordance with GAAP, as in effect from time to time; provided that, if the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent that the Borrower requests an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any change occurring after the date hereof in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower that the Required Lenders request an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith.

 

ARTICLE II

The Credits

 

SECTION 2.01. Commitments. (a) Term Loans. Each Term Lender, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, severally and not jointly with the other Term Lenders, agrees to make on the Effective Date a single Term Loan (collectively, the “Term Loans”) to the Borrower in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed such Term Lender’s Term Loan Commitment. Once prepaid or repaid, no Term Loan may be re-borrowed.

 

(b) Revolving Loans. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Revolving Credit Lender, severally and not jointly with the other Revolving Credit Lenders, agrees to make revolving Loans (the “Revolving Loans”) to the Borrower from time to time during the Availability Period in an aggregate principal amount that will not result in such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Exposure exceeding such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may borrow, prepay and re-borrow Revolving Loans.

 

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(c) Incremental Credit Extensions. The Borrower may from time to time after the Effective Date, by notice to the Administrative Agent, request one or more additional tranches of term loans (the “Incremental Term Loans”) or one or more increases in the Revolving Credit Commitments (each, a “Revolving Credit Facility Increase”); provided, however, that (i) the aggregate amount of all Incremental Term Loans and Revolving Credit Facility Increases shall not exceed $750,000,000, (ii) no Incremental Term Loans shall be requested later than one year prior to the Maturity Date with respect to the Term Loans, (iii) no Revolving Credit Facility Increase shall be requested later than one year prior to the Maturity Date with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility, (iv) each Incremental Term Loan and Revolving Credit Facility Increase shall be in an amount not less than $25,000,000 and (v) no more than two Incremental Term Loans and Revolving Credit Facility Increases may be requested in the aggregate in any calendar year. The Incremental Term Loans (A) shall rank pari passu in right of payment with the Revolving Loans and the Term Loans, (B) shall not have a final maturity earlier than the Maturity Date with respect to the Term Loans (but may have amortization up to 10% of the principal amount thereof each year prior to such date), (C) shall have pricing (including fees, interest and original issue discount) that does not exceed the pricing for the Term Loans, and (D) except for any differences permitted hereby, the Incremental Term Loans shall have the same terms and conditions as the Term Loans. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to obligate the Administrative Agent, the Joint Lead Arrangers or any Agent or Lender to negotiate for (whether or not in good faith), solicit, provide or consent to any Incremental Term Loans or any Revolving Credit Facility Increase. The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of each proposed Incremental Term Loan and Revolving Credit Facility Increase and of the proposed terms and conditions therefor agreed between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent. Each such Lender (and each of their Affiliates and Approved Funds) may, in its sole discretion, commit to participate in such Incremental Term Loans and Revolving Credit Facility Increases by forwarding its commitment therefor to the Administrative Agent in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall allocate, in its sole discretion but in amounts not to exceed for each such Lender the commitment received from such Lender, Affiliate or Approved Fund, the Incremental Term Loan commitments or Revolving Credit Facility Increase commitments to be made as part of such Incremental Term Loans or Revolving Credit Facility Increase, respectively, to the Lenders from which it has received such written commitments. If the Administrative Agent does not receive enough commitments from existing Lenders or their Affiliates or Approved Funds, it may, after consultation with the Borrower, allocate to Eligible Assignees any excess of the proposed amount of such Incremental Term Loans or Revolving Credit Facility Increase agreed with the Borrower over the aggregate amounts of the commitments received from existing Lenders or their Affiliates or Approved Funds. Each Incremental Term Loan and Revolving Credit Facility Increase shall become effective on a date agreed by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (each, a “Commitment Increase Date”), which shall be in any case on or after the date of satisfaction of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 4.03. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders and the Borrower, on or before 1:00 p.m., New York City time, on the day following a Commitment Increase Date of the effectiveness of an Incremental Term Loan or Revolving Credit Facility Increase, as applicable, and shall record in the Register all applicable additional information in respect of such Incremental Term Loans or Revolving Credit Facility Increase. On the Commitment Increase Date for any Revolving Credit Facility Increase, each Lender or Eligible Assignee participating in such Revolving Credit Facility Increase shall purchase and

 

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assume from each existing Lender having Revolving Loans and participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans outstanding on such Commitment Increase Date, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation, to the extent of such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the new Revolving Credit Commitments (after giving effect to such Revolving Credit Facility Increase), in the aggregate outstanding Revolving Loans and participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans, so as to ensure that, on the Commitment Increase Date after giving effect to such Revolving Credit Facility Increase, each Lender is owed only its Applicable Percentage of the Revolving Loans and participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans outstanding on such Commitment Increase Date.

 

SECTION 2.02. Loans and Borrowings. (a) Revolving Loans. Each Revolving Loan shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of Revolving Loans from the Revolving Credit Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective Revolving Credit Commitments.

 

(b) Term Loans. The Term Loans shall, subject as provided in Section 2.01(a), be made on the Effective Date as Borrowings from the Term Lenders in accordance with their respective Term Loan Commitments.

 

(c) Subject to Section 2.13, each Borrowing of Revolving Loans and Term Loans shall be comprised of ABR Loans or Eurodollar Loans, or both, as the Borrower may request in accordance herewith. Each Swingline Loan shall be an ABR Loan. Each Lender at its option may make any Eurodollar Loan by causing any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan in accordance with the terms hereof; provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

 

(d) At the commencement of each Interest Period for any Eurodollar Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is equal to $10,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof. At the time that each ABR Revolving Borrowing is made, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is equal to $10,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof; provided that an ABR Revolving Borrowing may be in an aggregate amount that is equal to the entire unused balance of the total Revolving Credit Commitments, or that is required to finance the reimbursement of an L/C Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.05(e) or the repayment of a Swingline Loan as contemplated by Section 2.09(a)(iii). Each Swingline Loan shall be in an amount that is equal to $500,000 or an integral multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof unless otherwise agreed by each Swingline Lender; provided that a Swingline Loan may be in an aggregate amount that is required to finance the reimbursement of an L/C Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.05(e). Borrowings of more than one Type and Class may be outstanding at the same time; provided that there shall not at any time be more than a total of fifteen Eurodollar Revolving Borrowings outstanding.

 

(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Borrower shall not be entitled to request, or to elect to convert or continue, any Borrowing if the Interest Period requested with respect thereto would end after the Maturity Date.

 

SECTION 2.03. Requests for Borrowings. To request a Borrowing, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such request by telephone (i) in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, three Business Days

 

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before the date of the proposed Borrowing or (ii) in the case of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the date of the proposed Borrowing; provided that any such notice of an ABR Revolving Borrowing to finance the reimbursement of an L/C Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.05(e) may be given not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date of the proposed Borrowing. Each such telephonic Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or telecopy to the Administrative Agent of a written Borrowing Request substantially in the form attached as Exhibit C and signed by the Borrower. Each such telephonic and written Borrowing Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02:

 

(1) whether such Borrowing is with respect to Revolving Loans or Term Loans;

 

(2) the aggregate amount of the requested Borrowing;

 

(3) the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day;

 

(4) whether such Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing;

 

(5) in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, the initial Interest Period to be applicable thereto, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”; and

 

(6) the location and number of the Borrower’s account to which funds are to be disbursed, which shall comply with the requirements of Section 2.06.

 

If no election as to the Type of Borrowing is specified, then the requested Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period is specified with respect to any requested Eurodollar Borrowing, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration. Promptly following receipt of a Borrowing Request in accordance with this Section, the Administrative Agent shall advise each applicable Lender of the details thereof and of the amount of such Lender’s Loan to be made as part of the requested Borrowing.

 

SECTION 2.04. Swingline Loans. (a) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Swingline Lender agrees to make Swingline Loans to the Borrower from time to time during the Availability Period, in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding that will not result in (i) the aggregate principal amount of all outstanding Swingline Loans exceeding $100,000,000 or (ii) the sum of the total Revolving Credit Exposures exceeding the Revolving Credit Lenders’ total Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that the Swingline Lender shall not be required to make a Swingline Loan to refinance an outstanding Swingline Loan. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may borrow, prepay and reborrow Swingline Loans.

 

(b) To request a Swingline Loan, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such request by telephone (confirmed by telecopy substantially in the form attached as Exhibit D), not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the day of a proposed Swingline Loan. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify (i) the requested date for making such Swingline Loan (which shall be a Business Day) and (ii) the

 

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amount of the requested Swingline Loan. The Administrative Agent will promptly advise the Swingline Lender of any such notice received from the Borrower requesting a Swingline Loan to be made by it. The Swingline Lender shall make such Swingline Loan available to the Borrower in immediately available funds by means of a credit to the general deposit account of the Borrower with the Swingline Lender (or, in the case of a Swingline Loan made to finance the reimbursement of an L/C Disbursement as provided in Section 2.05(e), by remittance to the Issuing Bank) by the later of 12:00 noon, New York City time, or two hours after receipt by the Administrative Agent of a request for such Swingline Loan on the requested date of such Swingline Loan.

 

(c) The Swingline Lender may by written notice given to the Administrative Agent not later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on any Business Day require the Revolving Credit Lenders to acquire participations on such Business Day in all or a portion of the Swingline Loans made by it which are outstanding. Such notice shall specify the aggregate amount of Swingline Loans in which Revolving Credit Lenders will participate. Promptly upon receipt of such notice, the Administrative Agent will give notice thereof to each Revolving Credit Lender, specifying in such notice such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such Swingline Loan or Loans. Each Revolving Credit Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees, upon receipt of notice as provided above, to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Swingline Lender, such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such Swingline Loan or Loans. Each Revolving Credit Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations in Swingline Loans pursuant to this paragraph is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including the occurrence and continuance of a Default or reduction or termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever. Each Revolving Credit Lender shall comply with its obligation under this paragraph by wire transfer of immediately available funds, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.06 with respect to Loans made by such Revolving Credit Lender (and Section 2.06 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the payment obligations of the Revolving Credit Lenders), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to the Swingline Lender the amounts so received by it from the Revolving Credit Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower of any participations in any Swingline Loan acquired pursuant to this paragraph, and thereafter payments in respect of such Swingline Loan shall be made to the Administrative Agent and not to the Swingline Lender. Any amounts received by the Swingline Lender from the Borrower (or other party on behalf of the Borrower) in respect of a Swingline Loan after receipt by the Swingline Lender of the proceeds of a sale of participations therein shall be promptly remitted to the Administrative Agent; any such amounts received by the Administrative Agent shall be promptly remitted by the Administrative Agent to the Revolving Credit Lenders that shall have made their payments pursuant to this paragraph and to the Swingline Lender, as their interests may appear; provided that any such payment so remitted shall be repaid to the Swingline Lender or to the Administrative Agent, as applicable, if and to the extent such payment is required to be refunded to the Borrower for any reason. The purchase of participations in a Swingline Loan pursuant to this paragraph shall not relieve the Borrower of any default in the payment thereof.

 

SECTION 2.05. Letters of Credit. (a) General. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may request the issuance of Letters of Credit for its own account (or for its account and the account of one or more of its Subsidiaries, collectively), in a form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Bank, at any time and from time to time during the Availability Period. In the event of any inconsistency between the

 

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terms and conditions of this Agreement and the terms and conditions of any form of letter of credit application or other agreement submitted by the Borrower to, or entered into by the Borrower with, the Issuing Bank relating to any Letter of Credit, the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall control.

 

(b) Notice of Issuance, Amendment, Renewal, Extension; Certain Conditions. To request the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or the amendment, renewal or extension of an outstanding Letter of Credit), the Borrower shall hand deliver or telecopy (or transmit by electronic communication, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the Issuing Bank) to the Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent (at least two Business Days or, if reasonable, less than two Business Days in advance of the requested date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension) a notice substantially in the form attached as Exhibit E requesting the issuance of a Letter of Credit, or identifying the Letter of Credit to be amended, renewed or extended, and specifying the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (which shall be a Business Day), the date on which such Letter of Credit is to expire (which shall comply with paragraph (c) of this Section), the amount of such Letter of Credit, the name and address of the beneficiary thereof and such other information as shall be necessary to prepare, amend, renew or extend such Letter of Credit. If requested by the Issuing Bank no later than upon its receipt of a notice from the Borrower requesting the issuance of a Letter of Credit, the Borrower also shall submit a letter of credit application on the Issuing Bank’s standard form in connection with any request for a Letter of Credit. A Letter of Credit shall be issued, amended, renewed or extended by the Issuing Bank in accordance with the notice with respect thereto received from the Borrower; provided that after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (i) the L/C Exposure shall not exceed $200,000,000 and (ii) the sum of the Lenders’ total Revolving Credit Exposures shall not exceed the Lenders’ total Revolving Commitments.

 

(c) Expiration Date. Each Letter of Credit shall expire at or prior to the close of business on the earlier of (i) the date one year after the date of the issuance of such Letter of Credit (or, in the case of any renewal or extension thereof, one year after such renewal or extension) and (ii) the date that is five Business Days prior to the Maturity Date of the Revolving Credit Facility.

 

(d) Participations. By the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or an amendment to a Letter of Credit increasing the amount thereof) and without any further action on the part of the Issuing Bank or the Revolving Credit Lenders, the Issuing Bank hereby grants to each Revolving Credit Lender, and each Revolving Credit Lender hereby acquires from the Issuing Bank, a participation in such Letter of Credit equal to such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit. In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each Revolving Credit Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Issuing Bank, such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage of each L/C Disbursement made by the Issuing Bank and not reimbursed by the Borrower on the date due as provided in paragraph (e) of this Section 2.05, or of any reimbursement payment required to be refunded to the Borrower for any reason. Each Revolving Credit Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations pursuant to this paragraph (d) of this Section 2.05 in respect of Letters of Credit is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including any amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or the occurrence and continuance of a Default or reduction or termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever.

 

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(e) Reimbursement. If the Issuing Bank shall make any L/C Disbursement in respect of a Letter of Credit, the Borrower shall reimburse such L/C Disbursement by paying (or causing its Subsidiary that is also an account party in respect of such Letter of Credit to pay) to the Administrative Agent an amount equal to such L/C Disbursement not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the date that such L/C Disbursement is made, if the Borrower shall have received notice of such L/C Disbursement prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on such date, or, if such notice has not been received by the Borrower prior to such time on such date, then not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on (i) the Business Day that the Borrower receives such notice, if such notice is received prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the day of receipt, or (ii) the Business Day immediately following the day that the Borrower receives such notice, if such notice is not received prior to such time on the day of receipt; provided that the Borrower may, subject to the conditions to borrowing set forth herein, request in accordance with Section 2.03 that such payment be financed with an ABR Revolving Borrowing (only if such L/C Disbursement is not less than $1,000,000), or a Swingline Loan in an equivalent amount and, to the extent so financed, the Borrower’s obligation to make such payment shall be discharged and replaced by the resulting ABR Revolving Borrowing or Swingline Loan. If the Borrower fails to make such payment or discharge such reimbursement obligation when due or in accordance with the prior sentence, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Revolving Credit Lender of the applicable L/C Disbursement, the payment then due from the Borrower in respect thereof and such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage thereof. Promptly following receipt of such notice, each Revolving Credit Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent its Applicable Percentage of the payment then due from the Borrower, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.06 with respect to Loans made by such Revolving Credit Lender (and Section 2.06 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the payment obligations of the Revolving Credit Lenders), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to the Issuing Bank the amounts so received by it from the Revolving Credit Lenders. Promptly following receipt by the Administrative Agent of any payment from the Borrower pursuant to this paragraph (e) of this Section 2.05, the Administrative Agent shall distribute such payment to the Issuing Bank or, to the extent that Revolving Credit Lenders have made payments pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse the Issuing Bank, then to such Revolving Credit Lenders and the Issuing Bank as their interests may appear. Any payment made by a Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to this paragraph (e) of this Section 2.05 to reimburse the Issuing Bank for any L/C Disbursement (other than the funding of ABR Revolving Loan or a Swingline Loan as contemplated above) shall not constitute a Loan and shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse such L/C Disbursement.

 

(f) Obligations Absolute. The Borrower’s obligation to reimburse L/C Disbursements as provided in paragraph (e) of this Section 2.05 shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under any and all circumstances whatsoever and irrespective of (i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit or this Agreement, or any term or provision therein, (ii) any draft or other document presented under a Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent or invalid in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect, (iii) payment by the Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or other document that does not comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit, or (iv) any other event or circumstance whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, that might, but for the

 

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provisions of this Section 2.05, constitute a legal or equitable discharge of, or provide a right of setoff against, the Borrower’s obligations hereunder. None of the Administrative Agent, the Revolving Credit Lenders, the Issuing Bank, or any of their Related Parties, shall have any liability or responsibility by reason of or in connection with the issuance or transfer of any Letter of Credit or any payment or failure to make any payment thereunder (irrespective of any of the circumstances referred to in the preceding sentence), or any error, omission, interruption, loss or delay in transmission or delivery of any draft, notice or other communication under or relating to any Letter of Credit (including any document required to make a drawing thereunder), any error in interpretation of technical terms or any consequence arising from causes beyond the control of the Issuing Bank; provided that the foregoing shall not be construed to excuse the Issuing Bank from liability to the Borrower to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to consequential damages, claims in respect of which are hereby waived by the Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable law) suffered by the Borrower that are caused by the Issuing Bank’s failure to exercise care when determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof. The parties hereto expressly agree that, in the absence of gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct on the part of the Issuing Bank (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction), the Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have exercised care in each such determination. In furtherance of the foregoing and without limiting the generality thereof, the parties agree that, with respect to documents presented which appear on their face to be in substantial compliance with the terms of a Letter of Credit, the Issuing Bank may, in its sole discretion, either accept and make payment upon such documents without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, or refuse to accept and make payment upon such documents if such documents are not in strict compliance with the terms of such Letter of Credit.

 

(g) Disbursement Procedures. The Issuing Bank shall, promptly following its receipt thereof, examine all documents purporting to represent a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit. The Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent and the Borrower by telephone (confirmed by telecopy) of such demand for payment and whether the Issuing Bank has made or will make an L/C Disbursement thereunder; provided that any failure to give or delay in giving such notice shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse the Issuing Bank and the Revolving Credit Lenders with respect to any such L/C Disbursement in accordance with Section 2.05(e) after receipt of the notice from the Issuing Bank contemplated thereby.

 

(h) Interim Interest. If the Issuing Bank shall make any L/C Disbursement, then, unless the Borrower shall reimburse such L/C Disbursement in full on the date such L/C Disbursement is made, the unpaid amount thereof shall bear interest, for each day from and including the date such L/C Disbursement is made to but excluding the date that the Borrower reimburses such L/C Disbursement, at the rate per annum then applicable to ABR Revolving Loans; provided that, if the Borrower fails to reimburse such L/C Disbursement when due pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section 2.05, then the amount due shall bear interest at the applicable rate provided in Section 2.12(c). Interest accrued pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section 2.05 shall be for the account of the Issuing Bank, except that interest accrued on and after the date of payment by any Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section 2.05 to reimburse the Issuing Bank shall be for the account of such Revolving Credit Lender to the extent of such payment.

 

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(i) Replacement of the Issuing Bank. The Issuing Bank may be replaced at any time by written agreement among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the replaced Issuing Bank and the successor Issuing Bank. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Revolving Credit Lenders of any such replacement of the Issuing Bank. At the time any such replacement shall become effective, the Borrower shall pay all unpaid fees accrued for the account of the replaced Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 2.11(b)(ii). From and after the effective date of any such replacement, (i) the successor Issuing Bank shall have all the rights and obligations of the Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit to be issued thereafter and (ii) references herein to the term “Issuing Bank” shall be deemed to refer to such successor or to any previous Issuing Bank, or to such successor and all previous Issuing Banks, as the context shall require. After the replacement of an Issuing Bank hereunder, the replaced Issuing Bank shall remain a party hereto and shall continue to have all the rights and obligations of an Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such replacement, but shall not be required to issue additional Letters of Credit.

 

(j) Cash Collateralization. If any Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, on the Business Day that the Borrower receives notice from the Administrative Agent or the Required Class Lenders under the Revolving Credit Facility (or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated, Revolving Credit Lenders with L/C Exposure representing greater than 50% of the total L/C Exposure) demanding the deposit of cash collateral pursuant to this paragraph (j) of this Section 2.05, the Borrower shall deposit in an account with the Administrative Agent, in the name of the Administrative Agent and for the benefit of the Revolving Credit Lenders, an amount in cash equal to the L/C Exposure as of such date plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon; provided that the obligation to deposit such cash collateral shall become effective immediately, and such deposit shall become immediately due and payable, without demand or other notice of any kind, upon the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to the Borrower described in paragraphs (h) or (i) of Article VII. Such deposit shall be held by the Administrative Agent as collateral for the payment and performance of the monetary Obligations of the Borrower. The Administrative Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the exclusive right of withdrawal, over such account. Other than any interest earned on the investment of such deposits, which investments shall be made at the option and sole discretion of the Administrative Agent and at the Borrower’s risk and expense, such deposits shall not bear interest. Interest or profits, if any, on such investments shall accumulate in such account. Moneys in such account shall be applied by the Administrative Agent to reimburse the Issuing Bank for L/C Disbursements for which it has not been reimbursed and, to the extent not so applied, shall be held for the satisfaction of the reimbursement obligations of the Borrower for the L/C Exposure at such time or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated (but subject to the consent of Revolving Credit Lenders with L/C Exposure representing greater than 50% of the total L/C Exposure), be applied to satisfy other obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement. If the Borrower is required to provide an amount of cash collateral hereunder as a result of the occurrence of an Event of Default, such amount (to the extent not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to the Borrower within three Business Days after all Events of Default have been cured or waived.

 

(k) Existing Letters of Credit. Schedule 2.05 contains a schedule of certain letters of credit (the “Existing Letters of Credit”) issued prior to the Effective Date for the account of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries. On the Effective Date (i) such Existing Letters of Credit, to the extent outstanding, shall be automatically and without further action by the parties thereto converted to Letters of Credit issued pursuant to this Section 2.05 for the account of the Borrower

 

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and subject to the provisions hereof, and for this purpose the fees specified in Section 2.11(b) shall be payable as if such Existing Letters of Credit had been issued on the Effective Date, (ii) the issuers of such Existing Letters of Credit shall be deemed to be “Issuing Banks” hereunder solely for the purpose of maintaining such Existing Letters of Credit, for purposes of Section 2.16 relating to the obligation to provide the appropriate forms, certificates and statements to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent and any updates required by Section 2.16 and for purposes of Section 2.09(c) relating to the entries to be made in the Register, (iii) the face amount of such Existing Letters of Credit shall be included in the calculation of L/C Exposure and (iv) all liabilities of the Borrower with respect to such Existing Letters of Credit shall constitute Obligations. No Existing Letter of Credit converted in accordance with this clause (k) shall be amended, extended or renewed without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent.

 

SECTION 2.06. Funding of Borrowings. (a) Each Lender shall make each Loan committed to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof by wire transfer of immediately available funds by 12:00 noon, New York City time, to the account of the Administrative Agent most recently designated by it for such purpose by notice to the Lenders, provided, that Swingline Loans shall be made as provided in Section 2.04. The Administrative Agent will immediately make available to the Borrower on the Effective Date the aggregate amount of the Term Loan so received by it from the Term Lenders as provided in Section 2.01(a), and the Administrative Agent will make any such Revolving Loans available to the Borrower by promptly crediting the aggregate amounts so received from the Revolving Credit Lenders, in immediately available funds, to an account of the Borrower maintained with the Administrative Agent in New York City and designated by the Borrower in the applicable Borrowing Request; provided, that ABR Revolving Loans made to finance the reimbursement of an L/C Disbursement as provided in Section 2.05(e) shall be remitted by the Administrative Agent to the Issuing Bank.

 

(b) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with paragraph (a) of this Section 2.06 and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount. In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover such corresponding amount on demand from such Lender for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to the Borrower to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent at the greater of (x) the Federal Funds Effective Rate and (y) a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation. If such Lender does not pay such corresponding amount with interest thereon upon the Administrative Agent’s demand therefor and the Administrative Agent previously made such amount available to Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify Borrower and, if so notified, Borrower shall pay on the day it receives such notification (provided, however, that if such day is not a Business Day or the Borrower receives such notification after 2:00 p.m., New York City time, then the Borrower shall pay on the next Business Day) such corresponding amount to the Administrative Agent at the interest rate applicable to the relevant Borrowing for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to the Borrower to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent. If such Lender pays such amount to the Administrative Agent, then such amount shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing. No provision of this Section 2.06 shall relieve a Lender which is in default with respect to its obligation to fund its Commitment in accordance with this Section 2.06.

 

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SECTION 2.07. Interest Elections. (a) Each Borrowing initially shall be of the Type specified in the applicable Borrowing Request and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as specified in such Borrowing Request. Thereafter, the Borrower may elect to convert each such Borrowing to a different Type or to continue such Borrowing and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, may elect Interest Periods therefor, all as provided in this Section 2.07. The Borrower may elect different Type options with respect to different portions of each affected Borrowing, in which case each such portion shall be allocated ratably among the applicable Lenders holding the Loans constituting such Borrowing, and the Loans constituting each such portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing. This Section 2.07 shall not apply to Swingline Borrowings and accordingly no Swingline Borrowings may be converted or continued.

 

(b) To make an election pursuant to this Section 2.07, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such election by telephone by the time that a Borrowing Request would be required under Section 2.03 if the Borrower were requesting a Revolving Borrowing of the Type resulting from such election to be made on the effective date of such election. Each such telephonic Interest Election Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or telecopy to the Administrative Agent of a written Interest Election Request substantially in the form attached as Exhibit F and signed by the Borrower.

 

(c) Each telephonic and written Interest Election Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02(d):

 

(i) the Borrowing to which such Interest Election Request applies and, if different options are being elected with respect to different portions thereof, the portions thereof to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing (in which case the information to be specified pursuant to paragraphs (iii) and (iv) below of this Section 2.07(c) shall be specified for each resulting Borrowing);

 

(ii) the effective date of the election made pursuant to such Interest Election Request, which shall be a Business Day;

 

(iii) whether the resulting Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing; and

 

(iv) if the resulting Borrowing is a Eurodollar Borrowing, the Interest Period to be applicable thereto after giving effect to such election, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term “Interest Period”.

 

If any such Interest Election Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing but does not specify an Interest Period, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration.

 

(d) Promptly following receipt of an Interest Election Request, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Revolving Credit Lender or Term Lender, as applicable, of the details thereof and of such Lender’s portion of each resulting Borrowing.

 

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(e) If the Borrower fails to deliver a timely Interest Election Request with respect to a Eurodollar Borrowing prior to the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, then, unless such Borrowing is repaid as provided herein, at the end of such Interest Period such Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing. Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, then, so long as an Event of Default is continuing (i) no outstanding Borrowing may be converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Borrowing and (ii) unless repaid, each Eurodollar Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto.

 

SECTION 2.08. Termination and Reduction of Commitments. (a) Termination. Unless previously terminated, (i) the Revolving Credit Commitments shall terminate on the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility and (ii) the Term Loan Commitments shall terminate on the Effective Date immediately after giving effect to all Borrowings of Term Loans which are made on such date.

 

(b) Optional Reduction. The Borrower may at any time terminate, or from time to time reduce, the Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that (i) each reduction of the Revolving Credit Commitments shall be in an amount that is equal to $10,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and (ii) the Borrower shall not terminate or reduce the Revolving Credit Commitments to the extent that, after giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the Revolving Loans in accordance with Section 2.10, the Revolving Credit Exposures would exceed the Revolving Credit Commitments as so terminated or reduced.

 

(c) The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of any election to terminate or reduce the Revolving Credit Commitments under paragraph (b) of this Section 2.08 at least three Business Days prior to the effective date of such termination or reduction specifying such election and the effective date thereof. Promptly following receipt of any notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Revolving Credit Lenders of the contents thereof. Each notice delivered by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.08 shall be irrevocable; provided that a notice of termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments described in paragraph (b) of this Section 2.08 delivered by the Borrower may state that such notice is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities, in which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied. Any termination or reduction of the Revolving Credit Commitments shall be permanent. Each reduction of the Revolving Credit Commitments shall be made ratably among the Revolving Credit Lenders in accordance with their respective Revolving Credit Commitments.

 

SECTION 2.09. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt. (a) The Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay:

 

(i) in respect of Revolving Loans, to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender, the then unpaid principal amount of each Revolving Loan on the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility;

 

(ii) in respect of Term Loans, to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Term Lender, in consecutive quarterly installments, in the applicable amount determined as a percentage of the aggregate Term Loans outstanding immediately following the Effective Date, as set forth below, on the last day of each of March, June, September and December and on the Maturity Date for the Term Loan Facility, the first

 

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such payment to be made December 30, 2005, to be applied against the Term Loans with respect to the Type and, if applicable, the Interest Period as the Borrower shall elect, but subject to Section 2.15 (provided, that all Term Loans outstanding and not otherwise repaid prior thereto, shall be paid in full on the Maturity Date applicable to the Term Loans):

 

Installments


  

Percentage Amount of each

Term Loan Installment


 

1 – 19

   2.50 %

  20

   52.50 %

 

; and

 

(iii) in respect of Swingline Loans, to the Swingline Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Swingline Loan made by them from the proceeds of a Revolving Borrowing or otherwise on the earlier of the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility and the first date after such Swingline Loan is made that is the 15th or last day of a calendar month and is at least one Business Day after such Swingline Loan is made; provided, that on each date a Revolving Borrowing is made, the Borrower shall repay all Swingline Loans then outstanding.

 

(b) Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing the monetary Obligations of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from each Loan made by such Lender, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time to time hereunder.

 

(c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at one of its offices a register (the “Register”) with respect to the Facilities, in which it shall record (i) the names and addresses of, and the Total Commitment of, and principal amount of the Loans and L/C Disbursements owing to, each Lender, (ii) the amount of each such Loan made hereunder, the Class and Type thereof and the Interest Period applicable thereto, (iii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to each Lender hereunder, and (iv) the amount of any sum received by the Administrative Agent hereunder for the account of the Revolving Credit Lenders (or Swingline Lender) or Term Lenders and each such Lender’s share thereof. The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register, pursuant to the terms hereof, as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower, the Issuing Bank and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice; provided, that no Lender shall be entitled to inspect the Register for the purpose of obtaining information set forth therein with respect to any other Lender. The Administrative Agent shall maintain the Register as an agent of the Borrower.

 

(d) The entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to paragraphs (b) or (c) of this Section 2.09 shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations recorded therein; provided that the failure of any Lender or the Administrative Agent to maintain such accounts or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay the Loans in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

 

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(e) Any Lender may request that the Loans of any Class made by it be evidenced by a promissory note (each a “Promissory Note”). In such event, the Borrower shall prepare, execute and deliver to such Lender, with respect to such Loans, a Promissory Note payable to the order of such Lender (or, if requested by such Lender, to such Lender and its registered assigns) and in the forms attached as Exhibit G-1 and G-2, as applicable to such Loans. Thereafter, such Loans of such Lender evidenced by such Promissory Note, and interest thereon, shall at all times (including after assignment pursuant to Section 9.04) be represented by one or more Promissory Notes in such form payable to the order of the payee named therein (or, if such Promissory Note is a registered note, to such payee and its registered assigns).

 

SECTION 2.10. Optional Prepayment of Loans; Mandatory Prepayment and Termination upon Change in Control. (a) The Borrower shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay the Term Loans or the Revolving Loans, in each case in an amount (if less than the aggregate outstanding principal amount of such Loans) equal to $10,000,000 or an integral amount of $1,000,000 in excess thereof (or such lesser amount of any class of Loans as is then outstanding), subject to prior notice in accordance with this Section 2.10 and subject to Section 2.15. The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent (and, in the case of prepayment of a Swingline Loan, each Swingline Lender thereof) with respect to the Loans to be prepaid, by telephone (confirmed by telecopy) of any prepayment hereunder (i) in the case of prepayment of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before the date of prepayment, or (ii) in the case of prepayment of an ABR Borrowing or a Swingline Loan, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the date of prepayment. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the prepayment date and the principal amount of each Borrowing or portion thereof to be prepaid; provided that, if a notice of prepayment is given in connection with a conditional notice of termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments as contemplated by Section 2.08, then such notice of prepayment may be revoked if such notice of termination is revoked in accordance with Section 2.08. Promptly following receipt of any such notice of prepayment relating to the Term Loans, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Term Lenders of the contents of such notice. Each prepayment of the Term Loans shall be applied to reduce the remaining future quarterly installment amounts thereof payable under Section 2.09(a)(ii) on a pro rata basis.

 

(b) Upon the occurrence of a Change in Control (i) all Loans then outstanding shall immediately become due and payable in full, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other monetary payment Obligations of the Borrower accrued hereunder (including any amount payable pursuant to Section 2.15), without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower, (ii) the Borrower shall provide cash collateral for outstanding undrawn Letters of Credit in the manner described in Section 2.05(j) and (iii) the Total Commitments shall be immediately terminated.

 

SECTION 2.11. Fees. (a) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender an unused commitment fee (an “Unused Commitment Fee”), which shall accrue at the Applicable Commitment Fee Rate on the daily amount of the excess of (i) such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment over (ii) such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Exposure (excluding such Revolving Credit Lender’s Swingline Exposure) during the period from and including the Effective Date to, but excluding, the date on which any such Revolving Credit Commitment terminates. Accrued Unused Commitment Fees shall be payable in arrears on the last day of March, June, September and December of each year and on the date on which the Revolving Credit Commitments terminate. All Unused Commitment Fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day).

 

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(b) The Borrower agrees to pay (i) to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender a participation fee with respect to its participations in Letters of Credit, which shall accrue at the same Applicable Interest Rate Margin used to determine the interest rate applicable to Eurodollar Revolving Loans on the average daily amount of such Revolving Credit Lender’s L/C Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed L/C Disbursements) during the period from and including the Effective Date up to but excluding the later of the date on which such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment terminates and the date on which such Revolving Credit Lender ceases to have any L/C Exposure, and (ii) to the Issuing Bank a fronting fee, which shall accrue at the rate per annum separately agreed upon between the Borrower and the Issuing Bank on the average daily amount of the L/C Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed L/C Disbursements) during the period from and including the Effective Date up to, but excluding, the later of the date of termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments and the date on which there ceases to be any L/C Exposure, as well as the Issuing Bank’s standard fees with respect to the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or processing of drawings thereunder. Fronting fees accrued through and including the last day of March, June, September and December of each year shall be payable on the third Business Day following such last day; provided that all such fees shall be payable on the date on which the Revolving Credit Commitments terminate and any such fees accruing after the date on which the Revolving Commitments terminate shall be payable on demand. Any other fees payable to the Issuing Bank pursuant to this paragraph shall be payable within 10 days after demand. All fees under this Section 2.11(b) shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day).

 

(c) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for its own account, the fees payable to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Fee Letter to which the Administrative Agent is a party.

 

(d) All fees payable under this Section 2.11 shall be paid, on the dates due, in immediately available funds, to the Administrative Agent (or to the Issuing Bank, in the case of fees payable to it) and, in the case of facility fees and participation fees, for distribution by the Administrative Agent to the Revolving Credit Lenders. Fees paid shall not be refundable under any circumstances.

 

SECTION 2.12. Interest. (a) The Loans constituting each ABR Borrowing (including each Swingline Loan) shall bear interest at the Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable Interest Margin Rate for such Loan.

 

(b) The Loans constituting each Eurodollar Borrowing shall bear interest at the Adjusted LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Applicable Interest Margin Rate for such Loan.

 

(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, following the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, any principal of, or interest on any Loan or any fee or other monetary payment Obligation payable by the Borrower hereunder shall bear interest, after as well as before judgment, at a rate per annum equal to (i) in the case of principal of any Loan, 2.0% per

 

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annum plus the rate otherwise applicable to such Loan as provided in the preceding clauses of this Section 2.12 and (ii) in the case of any other Obligation that has become due and payable (but is unpaid), 2.0% plus the rate applicable to ABR Revolving Loans as provided in paragraph (a) of this Section 2.12.

 

(d) Accrued interest on each Loan shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date for such Loan and, in the case of Revolving Loans, upon termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that (i) interest accrued pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section 2.12 shall be payable on demand, (ii) in the event of any repayment or prepayment of any Loan (other than a prepayment of an ABR Revolving Loan prior to the end of the Availability Period), accrued interest on the principal amount repaid or prepaid shall be payable on the date of such repayment or prepayment and (iii) in the event of any conversion of any Eurodollar Revolving Loan prior to the end of the current Interest Period therefor, accrued interest on such Loan shall be payable on the effective date of such conversion.

 

(e) All interest hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days, except that interest computed by reference to the Alternate Base Rate at times when the Alternate Base Rate is based on the Prime Rate shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year), and in each case shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). The applicable Alternate Base Rate, Adjusted LIBO Rate or LIBO Rate shall be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Administrative Agent shall, at any time and from time to time upon request of Borrower, deliver to the Borrower a statement showing the quotations used by the Administrative Agent in determining any interest rate applicable to Loans pursuant to this Agreement.

 

SECTION 2.13. Alternate Rate of Interest. If prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a Eurodollar Borrowing:

 

(a) the Administrative Agent determines in good faith (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Adjusted LIBO Rate or the LIBO Rate, as applicable, for such Interest Period; or

 

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

 

then the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Borrower and the Lenders by telephone or telecopy as promptly as practicable thereafter and, until the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, (i) any Interest Election Request that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or continuation of any Borrowing as, a Eurodollar Borrowing for such Interest Period shall be ineffective and (ii) if any Borrowing Request requests a Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be made as an ABR Borrowing. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower as promptly as practicable of receipt of any notice from the Required Lenders referred to in paragraph (b) above of this Section 2.13. Any Lender delivering such notice shall be deemed to be an “Affected Lender” for purposes hereof until such Lender delivers to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower a withdrawal of such notice.

 

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SECTION 2.14. Increased Costs. (a) If any Change in Law shall:

 

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

 

(ii) impose on any Lender or the Issuing Bank or the London interbank market any other condition affecting this Agreement or Eurodollar Loans made by such Lender or any Letter of Credit or participation therein;

 

and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of making or maintaining any Eurodollar Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan) or to increase the cost to such Lender or the Issuing Bank of participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or the Issuing Bank hereunder (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), then subject to paragraphs (c) and (d) of this Section 2.14, the Borrower will pay to such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.

 

(b) If any Lender or the Issuing Bank determines that any Change in Law regarding capital requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement or the Loans made by, or participations in Letters of Credit held by, such Lender, or the Letters of Credit issued by the Issuing Bank, to a level below that which such Lender or the Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy), then subject to paragraphs (c) and (d) of this Section 2.14, the Borrower will pay to such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or the Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.

 

(c) A certificate of a Lender or the Issuing Bank setting forth the amount(s) necessary to compensate such Lender or the Issuing Bank or its holding company, as the case may be, and the basis for the calculation thereof as specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section 2.14 shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.

 

(d) Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or the Issuing Bank to demand compensation pursuant to this Section 2.14 shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s right to demand such compensation; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender or the Issuing Bank pursuant to this Section 2.14 for any increased costs or reductions incurred more than 180 days prior to the date that such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, notifies the Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s intention to claim compensation therefor; provided further that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the 180-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.

 

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SECTION 2.15. Break Funding Payments. In the event of (a) the payment of any principal of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an Event of Default), (b) the conversion of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, (c) the failure to borrow, convert, continue or prepay any Eurodollar Loan on the date specified in any notice delivered pursuant hereto (regardless of whether such notice may be revoked under Section 2.10 and is revoked in accordance therewith), or (d) the assignment of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto as a result of a request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.18, then, in any such event, the Borrower shall compensate each Lender for the loss, cost and expense sustained by such Lender (or its Affiliates) as a result of such event. In the case of a Eurodollar Loan, such loss, cost or expense to any Lender shall include any loss or expense incurred by reason of the liquidation or redeployment of deposits or other funds acquired by such Lender to fund or maintain such Eurodollar Loan to the Borrower, but shall exclude any loss of anticipated Applicable Interest Rate Margin that would have accrued following such event with respect to each such Eurodollar Loan but for the occurrence of such event. A certificate of any Lender setting forth any amount(s) that such Lender is entitled to receive and the basis for the calculation thereof pursuant to this Section 2.15 shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.

 

SECTION 2.16. Taxes. (a) Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder shall be made free and clear of and without deduction for any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes; provided that if the Borrower shall be required to deduct any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes from such payments, then (i) the sum payable shall be increased as necessary so that after making all required deductions the Administrative Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank (as the case may be) receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the Borrower shall make such deductions and (iii) the Borrower shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.

 

(b) In addition, the Borrower shall pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.

 

(c) The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Issuing Bank, within 10 days after written demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes paid by the Administrative Agent, such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, on or with respect to any payment by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder (including Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority.

 

(d) As soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by the Borrower to a Governmental Authority, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt, if any, issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return, if any, reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 

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(e) Any Foreign Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding tax with respect to any Indemnified Tax or Other Tax (including by application of any treaty, the benefits of which such Lender is entitled), with respect to payments under this Agreement shall deliver to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), on or prior to the date such Foreign Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a new lending office) and at such other times as may be necessary in the reasonable determination of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, (i) two original copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-8ECI (or any successor forms), properly completed and duly executed by such Lender, and such other documentation required under the Code to establish that such Lender is not subject to deduction or withholding of United States federal income tax with respect to any payments to such Lender of principal, interest, fees or other amounts payable under this Agreement, or (ii) if such Lender is not a “bank” or other Person described in Section 881(c)(3) of the Code and cannot deliver either Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-8ECI pursuant to clause (i) above of this Section 2.16(e), a Certificate of Non-Bank Status together with two original copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8 (or any successor form), properly completed and duly executed by such Lender, and such other documentation required under the Code to establish that such Lender is not subject to deduction or withholding of United States federal income tax with respect to any payments to such Lender of interest payable under this Agreement. Each Lender that is not a Foreign Lender shall deliver to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) two duly completed copies of United States Internal Revenue Form W-9 (or applicable successor form) unless it establishes to the satisfaction of the Borrower that the Lender is otherwise eligible for an exemption from backup withholding tax or other applicable withholding tax. Each Lender hereby agrees, from time to time after the initial delivery by such Lender of such forms, certificates or other evidence required to be provided pursuant to the first two sentences of this Section 2.16(e), whenever a lapse in time or change in circumstances renders such forms, certificates or other evidence obsolete or inaccurate in any material respect, that such Lender shall promptly deliver to the Administrative Agent for transmission to the Borrower two new original copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN, W-8ECI or W-9 or a Certificate of Non-Bank Status and two original copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8, as the case may be, properly completed and duly executed by such Lender, and such other documentation required under the Code to confirm or establish that such Lender is not subject to deduction or withholding of United States federal income tax with respect to payments to such Lender under this Agreement, or notify the Administrative Agent and the Borrower of its inability to deliver any such forms, certificates or other evidence. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.16(e), a Foreign Lender shall not be required to deliver any form pursuant to this Section 2.16(e) that such Foreign Lender is not legally able to deliver.

 

(f) If the Administrative Agent or a Lender determines, in its sole discretion, that it has received a refund of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by the Borrower or with respect to which the Borrower has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section 2.16, it shall promptly notify the Borrower of such refund and promptly pay over such refund to the Borrower (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Borrower under this Section 2.16 with respect to the Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative Agent or such Lender and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant

 

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Governmental Authority with respect to such refund); provided, that the Borrower, upon the request of the Administrative Agent or such Lender, agrees to repay the amount paid over to the Borrower (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Administrative Agent or such Lender in the event the Administrative Agent or such Lender is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. This Section shall not be construed to require the Administrative Agent or any Lender to make available its tax returns (or any other information relating to its taxes which it deems confidential) to the Borrower or any other Person.

 

SECTION 2.17. Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs. (a) The Borrower shall make each payment required to be made by it hereunder (whether of principal, interest, fees or reimbursement of L/C Disbursements, or of amounts payable under Section 2.14, 2.15 or 2.16, or otherwise) prior to 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the date when due, in immediately available funds, without set-off or counterclaim. Any amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day for purposes of calculating interest thereon. All such payments shall be made to the Administrative Agent at its offices at 270 Park Avenue, New York, New York, except (i) payments to be made directly to the Issuing Bank or Swingline Lender as expressly provided herein and (ii) payments pursuant to Sections 2.14, 2.15, 2.16, and 9.03 shall be made directly to the Persons entitled thereto. The Administrative Agent shall distribute any such payments received by it for the account of any other Person to the appropriate recipient promptly following receipt thereof. If any payment hereunder shall be due on a day that is not a Business Day, the date for payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day, and, in the case of any payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall be payable for the period of such extension. All payments hereunder shall be made in dollars.

 

(b) Except for payments and other amounts received by the Administrative Agent and applied in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (f) of this Section 2.17, all payments and other amounts received by and available to the Administrative Agent to pay fully all amounts of principal, unreimbursed L/C Disbursements, interest, fees and other monetary payment Obligations then due hereunder, as applicable, shall be applied (i) first, towards payment of interest and fees then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of interest and fees then due to such parties, (ii) second, towards payment of principal and unreimbursed L/C Disbursements then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of principal and unreimbursed L/C Disbursements then due to such parties and (iii) third towards payment of any other monetary payment Obligations then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of such Obligations then due to such parties.

 

(c) If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of set-off or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of any principal of or interest on any of its Loans or participations in L/C Disbursements or Swingline Loans resulting in such Lender receiving payment of a greater proportion of the aggregate amount of its Loans and participations in L/C Disbursements and Swingline Loans and accrued interest thereon than the proportion received by any other Lender, then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Loans and participations in L/C Disbursements and Swingline Loans of other Lenders to the extent necessary so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amount of principal of and

 

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accrued interest on their respective Loans and participations in L/C Disbursements and Swingline Loans; provided that (i) if any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest, and (ii) the provisions of this paragraph (c) of this Section 2.17 shall not be construed to apply to any payment made by the Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans or participations in L/C Disbursements to any assignee or participant, other than to the Borrower or any Subsidiary or Affiliate thereof (as to which the provisions of this paragraph (c) of this of this Section 2.17 shall apply). The Borrower consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against the Borrower rights of set-off and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation.

 

(d) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders or the Issuing Bank hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Lenders or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, the amount due. In such event, if the Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender or Issuing Bank with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.

 

(e) If any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it pursuant to Section 2.04(c), 2.05(d) or (e), 2.06(b) or 2.17(d), then the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion (notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof), apply any amounts thereafter received by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender to satisfy such Lender’s obligations under such Sections until all such unsatisfied obligations are fully paid.

 

(f) The Borrower hereby irrevocably waives the right to direct the application of any and all payments in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default and agrees that, notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2.17(b), the Administrative Agent may, and, upon either (A) the written direction of the Required Lenders or (B) the acceleration of the monetary payment Obligations pursuant to Article VII, shall, apply all payments in respect of any Guaranteed Obligations in the following order:

 

(i) first, to pay interest on and then principal of any portion of the Loans that the Administrative Agent may have advanced on behalf of any Lender for which the Administrative Agent has not then been reimbursed by such Lender or the Borrower;

 

(ii) second, to pay Obligations in respect of any expense reimbursements or indemnities then due to the Administrative Agent;

 

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(iii) third, to pay Obligations in respect of any expense reimbursements or indemnities then due to the Lenders and the Issuing Bank;

 

(iv) fourth, to pay Obligations in respect of any fees then due to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Issuing Bank;

 

(v) fifth, to pay interest then due and payable in respect of the Loans and L/C Disbursements;

 

(vi) sixth, to pay or prepay principal amounts on the Loans and L/C Disbursements (provided, that all such amounts to be applied to the Revolving Credit Facility shall first be applied to repay any outstanding Swingline Loans), to provide cash collateral for outstanding undrawn Letters of Credit in the manner described in Section 2.05(j) and to pay Hedging Obligations owing to any Hedging Creditor and Cash Management Obligations owing to any Guaranteed Party, ratably to the aggregate principal amount of such Loans, L/C Disbursements and undrawn Letters of Credit, Hedging Obligations and Cash Management Obligations; and

 

(vii) seventh, to the ratable payment of all other Guaranteed Obligations;

 

provided, however, that if sufficient funds are not available to fund all payments to be made in respect of any Guaranteed Obligation described in any of clauses (i) through (vii) above, the available funds being applied with respect to any such Guaranteed Obligation (unless otherwise specified in such clause) shall be allocated to the payment of such Guaranteed Obligations ratably, based on the proportion of the Administrative Agent’s, each Lender’s, each Hedging Creditor’s, the Issuing Bank’s and each other holder of a Guaranteed Obligation’s interest in the aggregate outstanding Obligations described in such clauses. The order of priority set forth in clauses (i) through (vii) above may at any time and from time to time be changed by the agreement of the Required Lenders and, to the extent that each Class is not equally affected thereby, with the additional agreement of the Required Class Lenders with respect to each affected Class, without necessity of notice to or consent of or approval by the Borrower, any Guaranteed Party that is not a Lender or Issuing Bank or by any other Person that is not a Lender or Issuing Bank. The order of priority set forth in clauses (i) through (iv) above may be changed only with the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent in addition to that of the Required Lenders.

 

SECTION 2.18. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders. (a) If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.14, or if the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.16 or as a result of any Lender’s assignment to an Affiliate of such Lender or an Approved Fund pursuant to Section 9.04(b), or if any Lender is an Affected Lender, then such Lender shall, upon the request of the Borrower, use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Loans or Letters of Credit hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or Affiliates, if such designation or assignment (i) would be reasonably expected to eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Sections 2.14 or 2.16 in the future or result in such Lender or its assignee, as applicable, not being an Affected Lender; and (ii) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.

 

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(b) If (i) any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.14, or if the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.16 or as a result of any Lender’s assignment to an Affiliate of such Lender or an Approved Fund pursuant to Section 9.04(b), or (ii) any Lender is a Non-Funding Lender or (iii) any Lender has failed to consent to a proposed amendment, waiver, discharge or termination which pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Document requires the consent of all of the Lenders or of any Class of Lenders and with respect to which the Required Lenders or the Required Class Lenders, as applicable, shall have granted their consent (provided that for the purposes of this clause (iii), each of the percentages specified in the definitions of “Required Lenders” and “Required Class Lenders” shall be deemed, in each such case, to be increased to 75% and each such definition shall be construed accordingly), then the Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort (other than in the case of a default by a non-funding Lender, in which case such Lender shall be responsible for all reasonable out-of-pocket costs of the Borrower), upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, (x) prepay such Lender in full or (y) require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section 9.04), all its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement to an assignee selected by the Borrower and approved by the Administrative Agent (such approval not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) in accordance with Section 9.04, that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment); provided that (i) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans and participations in L/C Disbursements and Swingline Loans, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts (including any amount required to be paid under Section 2.15) payable to it hereunder, from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrower (in the case of all other amounts) and (ii) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 2.14 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.16, such assignment would be reasonably expected to result in a reduction in such compensation or payments. A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment and delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrower to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply.

 

ARTICLE III

Representations and Warranties

 

The Borrower represents and warrants to the Lenders as follows (it being understood that, as of the Effective Date only, the representations and warranties set forth in this Article III (other than in Sections 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04(b), 3.04(c), 3.07(b), 3.08, 3.12, 3.13 and 3.14) to the extent that they relate to Pre-Merger Accredo or Accredo are made on such date to the Borrower’s knowledge, which includes the representations and warranties of Pre-Merger Accredo contained in the Merger Agreement and all schedules, exhibits and amendments thereto):

 

SECTION 3.01. Organization; Powers. Each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, has all requisite power and authority to carry on its business as now conducted and is qualified to do business in, and is in good standing in, every jurisdiction where such qualification is required except, in each case, where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, has not resulted, and would not reasonably be expected to result, in a Material

 

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Adverse Effect. Schedule 3.01(a) sets forth as of the date hereof each Subsidiary of the Borrower (separately identifying each Insurance Subsidiary and each other Excluded Subsidiary). Schedule 3.01(b) sets forth as of the date hereof the name, address of principal place of business and taxpayer identification number of the Borrower.

 

SECTION 3.02. Authorization; Enforceability. The Loan Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby are within each Loan Party’s corporate powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate and, if required, stockholder action on the part of the Loan Parties party thereto. Each of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents has been duly executed and delivered by each Loan Party party thereto and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Loan Party, enforceable against such Loan Party in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

 

SECTION 3.03. Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts; Ranking. (a) Immediately prior to the initial extensions of credit hereunder and at all other times thereafter to the extent required by Section 4.02, the Transactions and the Acquisition (i) do not require any consent or approval of, registration or filing with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority, except such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect and except as have not resulted, and would not reasonably be expected to result, in a Material Adverse Effect; (ii) do not violate any applicable law (including ERISA and Environmental Laws) or regulation or any order of any Governmental Authority except as have not resulted, and would not reasonably be expected to result, in a Material Adverse Effect; (iii) do not violate the charter, by-laws or other organizational documents of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries; (iv) will not violate any indenture, agreement or other instrument binding upon the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or its assets, or give rise to a right thereunder to require any payment to be made by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries except as has not resulted, and would not reasonably be expected to result, in a Material Adverse Effect; and (v) will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien (except any Lien permitted by Section 6.02) on any asset of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.

 

(b) Each Loan ranks pari passu in right of payment with each other Loan (except as provided herein) and, for bankruptcy purposes, with all other unsubordinated, non-credit enhanced and unsecured Indebtedness of the Borrower.

 

SECTION 3.04. Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change. (a) The Borrower has heretofore furnished to the Lenders its consolidated balance sheet and statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows (i) as of and for the fiscal years ending December 27, 2003 and December 25, 2004, reported on by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, and (ii) as of and for the fiscal quarter and the portion of the fiscal year ending June 26, 2005, certified by its chief financial officer. Such financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and results of operations and cash flows of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of such dates and for such periods in conformity with GAAP, subject to year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes in the case of the statements referred to in clause (ii) above of this Section 3.04(a). The Borrower has heretofore furnished to the Lenders Pre-Merger Accredo’s consolidated balance sheet and statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows (A) as of and for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2003 and June 30, 2004, reported on by Ernst & Young LLP, and (B) as of and for the fiscal quarter and the portion of the fiscal year ending March 31, 2005, certified by its chief financial officer. To the Borrower’s knowledge,

 

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such financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and results of operations and cash flows of the Pre-Merger Accredo and its consolidated subsidiaries as of such dates and for such periods in conformity with GAAP, subject to year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes in the case of the statements referred to in clause (B) above of this Section 3.04(a).

 

(b) The Borrower has heretofore furnished to the Lenders projections as of and for the period between fiscal year beginning 2005 and fiscal year ended 2009. Such projections were prepared by management of the Borrower in good faith based on assumptions that the Executive Officers believe are reasonable as of the date hereof.

 

(c) Since December 25, 2004, there has been no development or event that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(d) As of immediately prior to the “Effective Time” (as defined in the Merger Agreement) with respect to Pre-Merger Accredo, since June 30, 2004, there has been no development or event that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a “Company Material Adverse Effect” (as defined in the Merger Agreement).

 

SECTION 3.05. Properties; Insurance. (a) Each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries has good title to, or valid leasehold interests in, all its real and personal property material to their business, taken as a whole, except for defects in title that do not materially interfere with its ability to conduct its business as currently conducted or to utilize such properties for their intended purposes.

 

(b) Each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries owns, is validly licensed or otherwise has the right to use, all trademarks, trade names, copyrights, patents and other intellectual property and property rights which are material to its business, and the use thereof by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries does not and will not violate the rights of any other Person, except for any such violations that, individually or in the aggregate, has not resulted, and would not reasonably be expected to result, in a Material Adverse Effect. No claim is pending and, to the knowledge of the Borrower, no claim has been asserted by any person challenging or questioning the use of any such trademark, trade name, copyright, patent or other intellectual property or proprietary rights except as has not resulted, and would not reasonably be expected to result, in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(c) The Borrower maintains, with financially sound and reputable insurance companies, on its own behalf and on behalf of its Subsidiaries, insurance in such amounts and against such risks as are customarily maintained by companies engaged in the same or similar businesses operating in the same or similar locations.

 

SECTION 3.06. Litigation and Environmental Matters. (a) There are no actions, suits or proceedings by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority pending against or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened against or affecting the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that (i) would reasonably be expected to be adversely determined, and (ii) if so determined either (x) would reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect or (y) seek to enjoin, unwind or otherwise materially and adversely affect any of the Loan Documents, the Transactions or the Acquisition.

 

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(b) Except with respect to matters that, individually or in the aggregate, do not, and would not reasonably be expected to, result a Material Adverse Effect, neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries (i) has failed to comply with any Environmental Law or to obtain, maintain or comply with any permit, license or other approval required under any Environmental Law, (ii) has become subject to any Environmental Liability or (iii) has received written notice of any claim with respect to any Environmental Liability.

 

SECTION 3.07. Compliance with Laws and Agreements; No Default. (a) Each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries is in compliance with all laws, regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority applicable to it or its property and all indentures, agreements and other instruments binding upon it or its property, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, has not resulted, and would not reasonably be expected to result, in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(b) As of the date hereof, the Effective Date and on each other date required by Section 4.02, no Default has occurred and is continuing.

 

SECTION 3.08. Investment Company Status. Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is an “investment company” as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940.

 

SECTION 3.09. Taxes. Each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (i) has timely filed or caused to be filed all Tax returns and reports required to have been filed (taking into account any extension of time in which to file) and (ii) has paid or caused to be paid all Taxes required to have been paid by it, except in the case of each of clauses (i) and (ii) of this Section 3.09, (a) Taxes that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which the Borrower or such Subsidiary, as applicable, has set aside on its books reserves to the extent required under GAAP or (b) to the extent that the failure to do so has not resulted, and would not reasonably be expected to result, in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

SECTION 3.10. ERISA. No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur that, when taken together with all other such ERISA Events for which liability is reasonably expected to occur, has resulted, or could reasonably be expected to result, in a Material Adverse Effect. The Borrower and its ERISA Affiliates have fulfilled their respective obligations under the minimum funding standards of ERISA and the Code with respect to each Plan and, with respect to the Plans, are in compliance in all material respects with the presently applicable provisions of ERISA and the Code and have not incurred any liability to the PBGC (other than to make contributions, pay annual PBGC premiums or pay out benefits in the ordinary course of business) and none of the foregoing have resulted, or would reasonably be expected to result, in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

SECTION 3.11. Employee Matters. Neither the Borrower nor its Subsidiaries is engaged in any unfair labor practice that has resulted, or would reasonably be expected to result, in a Material Adverse Effect. There is, as of the Effective Date, (a) no unfair labor practice complaint pending against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened against any of them before the National Labor Relations Board and no grievance or arbitration proceeding arising out of or under any collective bargaining agreement that is so pending against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened against any of them, (b) no strike or work stoppage is in existence involving the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that has had, or would reasonably be expected to have, a

 

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Material Adverse Effect, and (c) to the knowledge of the Borrower, no union representation question is existing with respect to the employees of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and, to the knowledge of the Borrower, no current union organization activity that is taking place, except (with respect to any matters specified in clauses (a), (b) or (c) of this Section 3.11, either individually or in the aggregate) such matter as has not resulted, and would not reasonably be expected to result, in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

SECTION 3.12. Margin Regulations. Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is engaged principally, as one of its important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose of carrying any margin stock (as such term is defined in Regulation U of the Board as in effect from time to time). No part of the proceeds of the Loans or Letters of Credit issued to the Borrower will be used to purchase or carry any such margin stock or to extend credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any such margin stock in violation of the provisions of Regulations T, U or X (or any successor regulations) of the Board.

 

SECTION 3.13. Certain Fees. No broker’s or finder’s fee or commission will be payable with respect hereto or any of the transactions contemplated hereby, except for certain advisory fees in connection with the Acquisition.

 

SECTION 3.14. Solvency. On the Effective Date, and immediately after giving effect to the Transactions and the Acquisition, the Borrower is and will be Solvent.

 

SECTION 3.15. Disclosure. To the knowledge of the Borrower, as of the date of this Agreement (a) neither the Information Memorandum nor any of the other reports, financial statements, certificates or other information (other than any projections, forecast or opinion) furnished by or on behalf of the Borrower to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with the negotiation of this Agreement or delivered hereunder (as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished), when taken as a whole, contains any material misstatement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading and (b) all projections, forecasts and opinions contained in the Information Memorandum or in such other reports, financial statements, certificates and other information were prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time.

 

ARTICLE IV

Conditions

 

SECTION 4.01. Conditions to Initial Credit Event. The agreement of each Lender to make the initial extension of credit requested to be made by it hereunder is subject to the satisfaction (or waiver in accordance with Section 9.02) prior to, concurrently with or immediately after the making of such extension of credit on the Effective Date, of each of the following conditions:

 

(a) The Administrative Agent (or its counsel) shall have received from the Borrower the following:

 

(i) this Agreement, duly executed and delivered by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, together with, for the account of each Lender requesting the same, one or more Promissory Notes of the Borrower conforming to the requirements set forth herein;

 

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(ii) the Guaranty, duly executed and delivered by each Guarantor;

 

(iii) written opinions (addressed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and dated the Effective Date) of (x) Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, counsel for the Borrower, substantially in the form of Exhibit H-1 and (y) the Borrower’s internal counsel, substantially in the form of Exhibit H-2;

 

(iv) a certificate, dated the Effective Date and signed by the President, a Vice President or an Executive Officer of the Borrower, that the Borrower is in compliance with the conditions set forth in paragraphs (a) and (b) of Section 4.02;

 

(v) a certificate from the chief financial officer of the Borrower to the effect that, as of the Effective Date, before and immediately after giving effect to the consummation of the Acquisition, the Loans to be made on the Effective Date, to the repayment of the Indebtedness outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreements and to the payment of all estimated legal, accounting and other fees related thereto, the Borrower and each Significant Subsidiary (other than the Securitization SPV) is and will be Solvent;

 

(vi) a copy of the articles or certificate of incorporation (or equivalent organizational document) of each Loan Party, certified as of a recent date by the Secretary of State of the state of organization of such Loan Party, together with certificates of such official attesting to the good standing of such Loan Party;

 

(vii) a certificate of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of each Loan Party certifying (A) the names and true signatures of each officer of such Loan Party that has been authorized to execute and deliver any Loan Document or other document required hereunder to be executed and delivered by or on behalf of such Loan Party, (B) the by-laws (or equivalent organizational document) of such Loan Party as in effect on the date of such certification, (C) the resolutions of such Loan Party’s board of directors approving and authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents to which it is a party, and (D) that there have been no changes in the certificate of incorporation (or equivalent organizational document) of such Loan Party from the certificate of incorporation (or equivalent organizational document) delivered pursuant to paragraph (vi) above;

 

(viii) a true and correct copy, certified as to authenticity by the Borrower, of the Merger Documents; and

 

(ix) such other documents as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request relating to the Borrower, its Subsidiaries, the Loan Documents, the Transactions or the Acquisition, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 

(b) The Acquisition shall have been consummated, or shall be consummated simultaneously with or as promptly as practicable following the initial Borrowings under this Agreement, on the Effective Date, on the terms set forth in the Merger Agreement, no provision of the Merger Agreement shall have been waived, amended, supplemented or otherwise modified in a manner that would reasonably be expected to be adverse to the Lenders without the consent of the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall have received evidence

 

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reasonably satisfactory to it that the certificate of merger with respect to the Acquisition shall have been filed with the office of the Secretary of State for the State of Delaware, and the Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, from an Executive Officer of the Borrower to such effect.

 

(c) The Administrative Agent shall have received evidence reasonably satisfactory to it that, simultaneously with the making of the initial Borrowings hereunder, the Existing Credit Agreements shall be terminated, all amounts thereunder shall be simultaneously paid in full and arrangements satisfactory to the Administrative Agent shall have been made for the termination of the Liens and security interests granted in connection therewith on the Effective Date or as promptly as practicable after the Effective Date.

 

(d) The Administrative Agent and the Joint Lead Arrangers, as the case may be, shall have received all costs, fees, expenses (including reasonable out-of-pocket fees and expenses of counsel) and other compensation then payable to the Administrative Agent, the Joint Lead Arrangers and the Lenders, including pursuant to the Fee Letters. All amounts will be paid with proceeds of Loans made on the Effective Date and will be reflected in the funding instructions given by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent on or before the Effective Date. Invoices shall have been presented for all expenses.

 

SECTION 4.02. Conditions to Each Credit Event . The several obligation of each Lender to make a Loan on the occasion of any Borrowing (including any Borrowing made on the Effective Date), and of the Issuing Bank to issue, amend, renew or extend any Letter of Credit (each a “Credit Event”), is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions:

 

(a) The representations and warranties of the Borrower set forth in Article III of this Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects (except that to the extent any such representation or warranty is qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, such representation or warranty shall be true and correct in all respects) on and as of the date of such Credit Event, as applicable, except to the extent expressly referring only to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall have been true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date.

 

(b) At the time of and immediately after giving effect to such Credit Event, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

 

Each Credit Event shall be deemed to constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower on the date thereof as to the matters specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 4.02.

 

SECTION 4.03. Conditions to Each Commitment Increase Date. Each Incremental Term Loan and each Revolving Credit Facility Increase is subject to the satisfaction prior to or concurrently with the making of such extension of credit on the Commitment Increase Date of each of the following conditions:

 

(a) The Administrative Agent shall have received on or prior to the Commitment Increase Date each of the following, each dated as of such Commitment Increase Date unless otherwise indicated or agreed to by the Administrative Agent and each in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent:

 

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(i) written commitments duly executed by existing Lenders (or their Affiliates or Approved Funds) or Eligible Assignees in an aggregate amount equal to the amount of the proposed Incremental Term Loan or Revolving Credit Facility Increase (as agreed between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent but in any case not to exceed, in the aggregate, the maximum amount set forth in Section 2.01(c)) and, in the case of each such Eligible Assignee that is not an existing Lender, an assumption agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and duly executed by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and such Eligible Assignee;

 

(ii) an amendment to this Agreement (including to Schedule 2.01), effective as of such Commitment Increase Date and executed by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, to the extent necessary to implement terms and conditions of such Incremental Term Loan or Revolving Credit Facility Increase as agreed by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent;

 

(iii) certified copies of resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor approving the consummation of such Incremental Term Loan or Revolving Credit Facility Increase and the execution, delivery and performance of the corresponding amendments to this Agreement and the other documents to be executed in connection therewith;

 

(iv) an opinion of counsel for the Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor, addressed to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Issuing Bank and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; and

 

(v) such other documents as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request.

 

(b) The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate from an Executive Officer of the Borrower, certifying that on the Commitment Increase Date and immediately after giving effect to the Incremental Term Loans or Revolving Credit Facility Increase, as applicable, the Borrower shall be in compliance with the financial covenants contained in Section 6.08, in each case determined on a pro forma basis after giving effect to such Incremental Term Loans or Revolving Credit Facility Increase, as applicable, as of the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which financial statements have been delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Sections 5.01(a) or 5.01(b), as applicable, in each case in form and substance and with supporting documentation reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 

(c) There shall have been paid to the Administrative Agent, for the account of itself and the Lenders, as applicable, all fees and expenses (including reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) due and payable on or before such Commitment Increase Date.

 

(d) The conditions precedent set forth in Section 4.02 shall have been satisfied both before and after giving effect to such Incremental Term Loans or Revolving Credit Facility Increase.

 

(e) Such Incremental Term Loans or Revolving Credit Facility Increase shall have been made on the terms and conditions set forth in Section 2.01(c).

 

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ARTICLE V

Affirmative Covenants

 

Until the Lenders’ Total Commitments have expired or been terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder shall have been paid in full and all Letters of Credit shall have expired or terminated and all L/C Disbursements shall have been reimbursed, the Borrower covenants and agrees with the Lenders that:

 

SECTION 5.01. Financial Statements; Ratings Change and Other Information. The Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent for distribution to the Lenders (as provided in Section 9.01) or, in the case of clause (g), to the Administrative Agent and the relevant Lender:

 

(a) not later than the earlier of (i) 100 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower and (ii) 5 Business Days after the filing thereof with the SEC, its audited consolidated balance sheet and related statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all reported on by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP or other independent public accountants of recognized national standing (without a “going concern” or like qualification or exception and without any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit) to the effect that such consolidated financial statements present fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, as of such dates and for such periods, in conformity with GAAP; provided that delivery within the time frame specified above of copies of Borrower’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC shall satisfy the requirements of this paragraph (a) of this Section 5.01;

 

(b) not later than the earlier of (i) 55 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of the Borrower and (ii) 5 Business Days after the filing thereof with the SEC, its unaudited consolidated balance sheet and related statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows as of the end of and for such fiscal quarter and the then elapsed portion of the fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the corresponding period or periods of (or, in the case of the balance sheet, as of the end of) the previous fiscal year, all certified by one of its Financial Officers as presenting fairly in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, as of such dates and for such periods, in conformity with GAAP, subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes; provided that delivery within the time frame specified above of copies of Borrower’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC shall satisfy the requirements of this paragraph (b) of this Section 5.01;

 

(c) concurrently with any delivery of financial statements under paragraphs (a) or (b) of this Section 5.01, a certificate of a Financial Officer of the Borrower (i) certifying as to whether the Financial Officer has knowledge of a Default that has occurred and is continuing and, if a Default has occurred and is continuing, specifying the details thereof and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto, (ii) demonstrating, in reasonable detail, compliance with the financial ratios or requirements set forth in Sections 6.01(h), 6.02(g), 6.04(d), 6.04(g) and 6.08, and (iii) stating whether any change in GAAP or in the application thereof has occurred since the date of the audited financial statements referred to in Section 3.04

 

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and, if any such change has occurred, specifying the effect of such change on the financial statements accompanying such certificate;

 

(d) concurrently with any delivery of financial statements under paragraph (a) of this Section 5.01, a certificate substantially in the form attached as Exhibit I of the accounting firm that reported on such financial statements (provided that such certificate may be limited to the extent required by accounting rules or guidelines);

 

(e) to the extent the same are not publicly available, promptly after the filing or distribution thereof, copies of all periodic and other reports, proxy statements and other materials filed by the Borrower or any Subsidiary with the SEC, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any or all of the functions of said Commission, or distributed by the Borrower to its shareholders generally;

 

(f) promptly after any Executive Officer of the Borrower shall have knowledge that Moody’s or S&P have announced a change in the Credit Rating or in the rating established or deemed to have been established for the Facilities, written notice of such rating change;

 

(g) reasonably promptly following any request therefor, such other information regarding the operations, business affairs and financial condition of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or compliance with the terms of this Agreement, as the Administrative Agent or any Lender may reasonably request; and

 

(h) promptly, and in any event within one Business Day of the Effective Date, a copy of the certificate of merger between Pre-Merger Accredo and Merger Sub, certified by the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware.

 

SECTION 5.02. Notices of Material Events. The Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent for distribution to the Lenders prompt written notice (which in any event shall be furnished within (i) in the case of paragraph (a) below, 10 Business Days and (ii) in the case of paragraphs (b) through (d) below, 30 days) of the following:

 

(a) the Borrower having knowledge of any Default that has occurred, unless the Borrower has previously provided such notification;

 

(b) the Borrower having knowledge of the filing or commencement of any action, suit or proceeding by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority against or affecting the Borrower or any Affiliate thereof and that such action, suit or proceeding, if adversely determined, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

 

(c) the Borrower having knowledge of the occurrence of any ERISA Event that, alone or together with any other ERISA Events that have occurred and are then outstanding, would reasonably be expected to result in liability of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount exceeding $25,000,000; and

 

(d) any Executive Officer’s having knowledge of any other development that results in, or would reasonably be expected to result in, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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Each notice delivered under this Section 5.02 shall be accompanied by a statement of an Executive Officer setting forth a description of the event or development requiring such notice and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower shall not be required to provide a notice referred to in Section 5.02(b), (c) or (d) with respect to the occurrence of an event described therein if such event has been disclosed by the Borrower on Form 8-K filed with the SEC within 30 days of the occurrence of such event.

 

SECTION 5.03. Existence; Conduct of Business. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its legal existence and the rights, licenses, permits, privileges and franchises material to the conduct of its business, except for failures to do so which, individually or collectively, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit any transaction permitted under Section 6.03.

 

SECTION 5.04. Payment of Obligations. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, pay its obligations, including Tax liabilities, before the same shall become delinquent or in default, that, if not paid, individually or collectively, would result, or would reasonably be expected to result, in a Material Adverse Effect, except where (a) the validity or amount thereof is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and (b) the Borrower or such Subsidiary has set aside on its books reserves with respect thereto to the extent required under GAAP.

 

SECTION 5.05. Maintenance of Properties; Insurance. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, keep and maintain all property material to the conduct of their businesses in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, except for failures that would not reasonably be expected to, result in a Material Adverse Effect. The Borrower will maintain, with reputable insurance companies, insurance in such amounts and against such risks as are customarily maintained by companies engaged in the same or similar businesses operating in the same or similar locations.

 

SECTION 5.06. Books and Records; Inspection Rights. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, keep proper books of record and account in conformity with GAAP. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, permit any representatives designated by the Administrative Agent or any Lender (which, in the case of any such representatives which are accountants, shall be an accounting firm of nationally recognized standing which is reasonably acceptable to the Borrower), upon reasonable prior notice (and in any event to be permitted within 10 Business Days of the Borrower receiving such notice in writing) and without causing material disruption, to visit and inspect its properties, to examine and make extracts from its books and records, and to discuss its affairs, finances and condition with its officers and independent accountants, all at such reasonable times and as often as reasonably requested (subject to confidentiality obligations of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries).

 

SECTION 5.07. Compliance with Laws. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, comply with all laws (including ERISA and Environmental Law), rules, regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority applicable to it or its property, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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SECTION 5.08. Use of Proceeds and Letters of Credit. The proceeds of the Term Loans shall be used on the Effective Date solely to finance a portion of the cost of the Acquisition, the refinancing of the Existing Credit Agreements and for the Borrower’s and its Subsidiaries’ general corporate and working capital purposes (including making acquisitions). The proceeds of the Revolving Loans shall be used towards the refinancing of the Existing Credit Agreements and for the Borrower’s and its Subsidiaries’ general corporate and working capital purposes (including making acquisitions). Letters of Credit will be issued only to support the Borrower’s and its Subsidiaries’ general corporate and working capital purposes (including making acquisitions).

 

SECTION 5.09. Additional Subsidiary Guarantors. The Borrower may from time to time, at the Borrower’s sole discretion, designate in writing to the Administrative Agent any Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Subsidiary) of the Borrower as a Subsidiary Guarantor, and the Borrower shall promptly cause such Subsidiary to (a) deliver to the Administrative Agent such duly-executed supplements and amendments to the Guaranty, in each case in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and as the Administrative Agent deems necessary or advisable in order to ensure that such Subsidiary guarantees, as primary obligor and not as surety, the full and punctual payment when due of the Guaranteed Obligations or any part thereof, (b) take such other actions necessary or advisable to ensure the validity or continuing validity of the guarantees given pursuant to clause (a) above, and (c) if requested by the Administrative Agent, deliver to the Administrative Agent legal opinions relating to the matters described above, which opinions shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 

ARTICLE VI

Negative Covenants and Financial Covenants

 

Until the Lenders’ Total Commitments have expired or terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder have been paid in full and all Letters of Credit have expired or terminated and all L/C Disbursements shall have been reimbursed, the Borrower covenants and agrees with the Lenders that:

 

SECTION 6.01. Indebtedness. The Borrower will not permit any Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor or an Insurance Subsidiary to create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Indebtedness, except:

 

(a) Indebtedness existing on the date hereof and set forth in Schedule 6.01;

 

(b) Indebtedness under the Securitization, provided that the aggregate principal component of amounts outstanding thereunder shall not, in the aggregate, exceed $750,000,000 (regardless of the amount of accounts receivable securitized or collateralized thereunder);

 

(c) Indebtedness under intercompany loans made to any such Subsidiary, in each case to the extent permitted by Sections 6.04(c) or (d);

 

(d) Guarantees by any such Subsidiary with respect to Indebtedness of another Subsidiary, in each case to the extent permitted by Section 6.04(d);

 

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(e) Indebtedness which may be deemed to exist with respect to Hedging Contracts permitted by Section 6.05;

 

(f) Indebtedness that may exist in respect of deposits or payments made by customers or clients of such Subsidiaries;

 

(g) Indebtedness arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument (except in the case of daylight overdrafts) drawn against insufficient funds in the ordinary course of business; provided, however, that such Indebtedness is extinguished within five Business Days of incurrence; and

 

(h) Indebtedness not otherwise permitted by paragraphs (a) through (g) of this Section 6.01, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of which as of the date of any incurrence thereof shall not exceed 15% of the Consolidated Net Worth of the Borrower as of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which financial statements have been delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Sections 5.01(a) or 5.01(b), as applicable.

 

SECTION 6.02. Liens. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien on any property or asset now owned or hereafter acquired by it, or assign or sell any income or revenues (including accounts receivable) or rights in respect of any thereof, except:

 

(a) Permitted Encumbrances;

 

(b) any Lien on any property or asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary existing on the date hereof and set forth in Schedule 6.02, and additions thereto (but not beyond the scope of the original Lien) and proceeds and replacements thereof, provided that such Liens shall secure only those obligations which it secures on the date hereof and extensions, renewals and replacements thereof that do not increase the outstanding principal amount thereof;

 

(c) Liens solely on any deposits, advances, contractual payments, including implementation allowances, or escrows made or paid by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to or with customers or clients in the ordinary course of business;

 

(d) Liens arising pursuant to, or assignments in connection with, the Securitization with respect to the Receivables and Related Assets securitized thereunder;

 

(e) deposits securing liabilities to insurance carriers under insurance or self-insurance arrangements and regulatory restrictions imposed on Insurance Subsidiaries;

 

(f) Liens of any Subsidiary in favor of the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor; and

 

(g) Liens not otherwise permitted by paragraphs (a) through (f) of this Section 6.02 securing Indebtedness not prohibited by Section 6.01 the aggregate outstanding principal amount of which, as of the date of any incurrence thereof, shall not exceed 15% of the Consolidated Net Worth of the Borrower as of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which financial statements have been delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Sections 5.01(a) or 5.01(b), as applicable.

 

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SECTION 6.03. Fundamental Changes. The Borrower will not, nor will it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, consummate any transaction of merger or consolidation, or liquidate, wind-up or dissolve itself (or suffer any liquidation or dissolution), or convey, sell, lease or sub-lease (as lessor or sublessor), transfer or otherwise dispose of, in one transaction or a series of transactions, all or substantially all of its assets, except that, if at the time thereof and immediately after giving effect thereto no Default shall have occurred and be continuing:

 

(a) any Subsidiary may merge into the Borrower in a transaction in which the Borrower is the continuing or surviving Person;

 

(b) any Subsidiary may merge into any wholly-owned Subsidiary in a transaction (i) in which the surviving entity is a wholly-owned Subsidiary or (ii) where simultaneously with such transaction, the continuing surviving Person shall become a wholly-owned Subsidiary; provided, in the case of any merger with any Subsidiary Guarantor, such Subsidiary Guarantor will be the continuing or surviving Person;

 

(c) any Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor may sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of its assets to the Borrower or to another wholly-owned Subsidiary; and

 

(d) any Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor may liquidate or dissolve if the Borrower determines in good faith that such liquidation or dissolution is in the best interests of the Borrower and is not materially disadvantageous to the Lenders.

 

SECTION 6.04. Investments, Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, purchase, hold or acquire (including pursuant to any merger with any Person that was not a wholly-owned Subsidiary prior to such merger) any Equity Interests, evidences of Indebtedness or other securities (including any option, warrant or other right to acquire any of the foregoing) of, make or permit to exist any loans or advances to, Guarantee any obligations of, transfer (by sale, lease or otherwise) or contribute any asset (except dispositions made on arms’ length terms for fair market value) to, or make or permit to exist any investment or any other similar interest in, any other Person, or purchase or otherwise acquire (in one transaction or a series of transactions) any assets of any other Person constituting a business unit (each an “Investment”), except:

 

(a) Permitted Investments;

 

(b) Investments by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that exist on the date hereof and an Investment in any Person to the extent such Investment replaces or refinances an Investment in such Person existing on the date hereof in an amount not exceeding the amount of the Investment being replaced or refinanced; provided that the new Investment is on terms and conditions not materially less favorable, taken as a whole, to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries than the Investment being renewed or replaced;

 

(c) Investments made after the Effective Date (i) by any Loan Party to or in any other Loan Party and (ii) by any Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor to or in the Borrower or any wholly-owned Subsidiary;

 

(d) Investments made after the Effective Date by any Loan Party to or in any Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor (including Investments in the Equity Interests of any wholly-owned Subsidiary newly organized or acquired after the date hereof) which in aggregate,

 

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for all such Investments made after the Effective Date, do not exceed 15% of the Consolidated Net Worth of the Borrower as of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which financial statements have been delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Sections 5.01(a) or 5.01(b), as applicable;

 

(e) Guarantees constituting Indebtedness permitted by Section 6.01;

 

(f) Investments in the Securitization SPV pursuant to the Securitization; provided that the only assets transferred to the Securitization SPV consist of Receivables and Related Assets;

 

(g) Investments by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries not otherwise permitted under paragraphs (a) through (f) of this Section 6.04; provided, however, that at the time of such Investment and immediately after giving effect thereto, the Borrower shall be in compliance with the financial covenants contained in Section 6.08, in each case determined on a pro forma basis after giving effect to such Investment as of the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which financial statements have been delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Sections 5.01(a) or 5.01(b), as applicable; provided, further, that this paragraph (g) shall not permit Investments in or to Subsidiaries that are not Subsidiary Guarantors in addition to those permitted pursuant to paragraph (d) of this Section 6.04; and

 

(h) Investments by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries not otherwise permitted under paragraphs (a) through (g) of this Section 6.04; provided, however, that at the time of such Investment and immediately after giving effect thereto, the Borrower shall have Investment Grade Ratings.

 

SECTION 6.05. Change in Nature of Business; Swap Agreements. (a) Except as otherwise permitted herein, the Borrower will not, and will not permit its Subsidiaries to, alter materially the character or conduct of the business conducted by such Persons as of the date hereof and activities directly related or incidental thereto and similar or related businesses.

 

(b) The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, enter into any Swap Agreement, except solely for the purposes of hedging or mitigating bona fide risks to the Borrower or such Subsidiary with respect to its business or assets.

 

SECTION 6.06. Transactions with Affiliates. (a) The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, sell, lease or otherwise transfer any property or assets to, or purchase, lease or otherwise acquire any property or assets from, or otherwise engage in any other transactions with, any of its Affiliates, except (i) on terms and conditions not in the aggregate less favorable to the Borrower or such Subsidiary than could be obtained on an arm’s-length basis if the Affiliate were an unrelated third party and (ii) transactions between or among the Borrower and its wholly owned Subsidiaries not involving any other Affiliate.

 

(b) The foregoing paragraph (a) of this Section 6.06 shall not prohibit, to the extent otherwise permitted under this Agreement, (i) any issuance of securities, or other payments, awards or grants in cash, securities or otherwise pursuant to, or the funding of, employment arrangements, stock options and other benefit plans, (ii) loans or advances to employees, officers, consultants or directors of the Borrower or any Subsidiary permitted by Section 6.04, (iii) the payment of fees and indemnities to directors, officers and employees of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business, (iv) any agreements with

 

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employees and directors entered into by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business, (v) sales of Equity Interests of the Borrower to its Affiliates, and (vi) the Securitization and transfers of Receivables and Related Assets (or interests therein) pursuant to the terms of the Securitization Documents.

 

SECTION 6.07. Restrictive Agreements. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, enter into, incur or permit to exist any agreement or other arrangement that prohibits, restricts or imposes any condition upon (a) the ability of the Borrower or any Subsidiary to create, incur or permit to exist any Lien upon any of its property or assets for the purpose of securing Indebtedness under any credit or debt facilities (including any credit agreement, note purchase agreement or indenture) or commercial paper facilities, in an aggregate principal amount of not less than $1,500,000,000 and Indebtedness with respect to Swap Agreements and cash management obligations, or (b) the ability of any Subsidiary to pay dividends or other distributions with respect to its Equity Interests or to make or repay loans or advances to the Borrower or to Guarantee Indebtedness of the Borrower; provided that (i) the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions and conditions imposed by law, rule, regulation or order (in each case, having the force of law), by this Agreement, by the Senior Notes Indenture or by the Securitization Documents with respect to the Securitization SPV and/or any Receivables and Related Assets securitized thereunder, (ii) the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions and conditions existing on the date hereof identified on Schedule 6.07 (but shall apply to any extension, renewal, amendment or modification thereof which materially expands the scope of such restrictions or conditions, taken as a whole), (iii) the foregoing shall not apply to customary restrictions and conditions contained in agreements relating to the sale or disposition of any assets or Subsidiary; provided such sale or disposition is permitted hereunder, (iv) clause (a) of the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions or conditions imposed by any agreement relating to any Lien permitted by this Agreement if the restrictions or conditions do not apply to any property or assets other than the property or asset subject to such Lien, (v) clause (a) of the foregoing shall not apply to customary provisions in leases (including prohibitions contained therein on a Lien on the lease or the property subject to the lease) and other contracts (including restrictions on assignment), (vi) the foregoing shall not apply to regulatory restrictions and conditions imposed on the Insurance Subsidiaries, (vii) the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions contained in any instrument governing Indebtedness or Equity Interests of a Person acquired by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries as in effect at the time of such acquisition (except to the extent such Indebtedness was incurred, or such Equity Interests were issued, in connection with or in contemplation of such acquisition), which encumbrance or restriction is not applicable to any Person, or the properties or assets of any Person, other than the Person or the property or assets of the Person so acquired, and any amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, increases, supplements, refundings, replacements or refinancings of those instruments, provided that the encumbrances or restrictions contained in any such amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, increases, supplements, refundings, replacements or refinancings, taken as a whole, are not materially more restrictive than the encumbrances or restrictions contained in instruments as in effect on the date of acquisition, (viii) the foregoing shall not apply to restrictions on cash or other deposits or net worth imposed by customers or lessors under contracts or leases entered into in the ordinary course of business, (ix) the foregoing shall not apply to customary restrictions imposed on the transfer of copyrighted or patented materials or other intellectual property and customary provisions in agreements that restrict the assignment of such agreements or any rights thereunder, and (x) the foregoing shall not apply to any restrictions imposed by contracts or leases entered into in the ordinary course of business by any Person acquired by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries with such Person’s customers, lessors or

 

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suppliers and not in connection with or in contemplation of the acquisition of such Person by the Borrower or such Subsidiary of the Borrower, which restrictions are not applicable to any Person, or the property or assets of any Person, other than the property or assets of the Person so acquired.

 

SECTION 6.08. Financial Covenants. (a) Leverage Covenant. The Borrower will not permit the ratio of (i) Consolidated Total Debt as of the last day of any fiscal quarter, or as of the date of any Credit Event (after giving effect thereto), to (ii) Consolidated EBITDA for the last four fiscal quarters ending on or before such date to be greater than 3.0:1.

 

(b) Interest Expense Coverage Covenant. The Borrower will not permit the ratio, determined as of the last day of any fiscal quarter for the period of four fiscal quarters ending on such day, of (i) Consolidated EBITDA for such period to (ii) Consolidated Interest Expense for such period to be less than 3.0:1.

 

(c) In calculating the ratios set forth in Sections 6.08(a) and (b), pro forma effect shall be given to any acquisitions or dispositions that occur during the applicable reference period, or thereafter and on or prior to the reporting date with respect thereto, as if they had occurred on the first day of the applicable reference period or as of the last day of the applicable quarter, as the case may be.

 

ARTICLE VII

Events of Default

 

If any of the following events (each an “Event of Default”) shall occur:

 

(a) the Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan or any reimbursement obligation in respect of any L/C Disbursement when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the due date thereof or at a date fixed for prepayment thereof or otherwise;

 

(b) the Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount (other than an amount referred to in paragraph (a) of this Article VII) payable under this Agreement or any Loan Documents, when and as the same shall become due and payable, and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of five Business Days;

 

(c) any representation or warranty made or deemed made by or on behalf of the Borrower or any Subsidiary in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any amendment or modification hereof or thereof or waiver hereunder or thereunder, or in any report, certificate or statement or other document furnished pursuant to Articles II, IV or V of this Agreement or any amendment, modification or waiver of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect (except that, to the extent any such representation or warranty is qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, such representation or warranty shall prove to have been incorrect in any respect) when made or deemed made;

 

(d) the Borrower shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in Sections 5.01(h), 5.02, 5.03 (with respect to the Borrower’s existence), 5.06 or 5.08 or in Article VI;

 

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(e) the Borrower or any other Loan Party shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document (other than those specified in paragraph (a), (b) or (d) of this Article VII) and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of 30 days after the earlier of (i) the day an Executive Officer of the Borrower first has knowledge of such failure and (ii) the Administrative Agent giving notice thereof to the Borrower (which notice will be given at the request of any Lender);

 

(f) the Borrower or any Subsidiary shall fail to make any payment (whether of principal or interest and regardless of amount) in respect of any Material Indebtedness, when and as the same shall become due and payable, after giving effect to any waiver or applicable grace period;

 

(g) any event or condition occurs that results in any Material Indebtedness becoming due prior to its scheduled maturity, other than at the election of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or that enables or permits (with or without the giving of notice, the lapse of time or both) the holder or holders of any Material Indebtedness or any trustee or agent on its or their behalf to cause such Material Indebtedness to become due, or to require the prepayment, repurchase, redemption or defeasance thereof, prior to its scheduled maturity, after giving effect to any waiver or applicable grace period; provided that this paragraph (g) shall not apply to secured Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of the property or assets securing such Indebtedness;

 

(h) an involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or an involuntary petition shall be filed seeking (i) liquidation, reorganization or other relief in respect of the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor or the debts thereof, or a substantial part of the assets thereof, under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect or (ii) the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor or for a substantial part of the assets thereof, and, in any such case, such proceeding or petition shall continue undismissed for 60 days or an order or decree approving or ordering any of the foregoing shall be entered;

 

(i) the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor shall (i) voluntarily commence any proceeding or file any petition seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect, (ii) consent to the institution of, or fail to contest in a timely and appropriate manner, any proceeding or petition described in paragraph (h) of this Article VII, (iii) apply for or consent to the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor or for a substantial part of its assets, (iv) file an answer admitting the material allegations of a petition filed against it in any such proceeding, (v) make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors or (vi) take any action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing;

 

(j) the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor shall become unable, admit in writing its inability or fail generally to pay its debts as they become due;

 

(k) one or more judgments (i) for the payment of money in an aggregate amount in excess of $50,000,000 (except to the extent covered by insurance or other right of reimbursement or indemnification), or (ii) which result, or would reasonably be expected to result, in a Material Adverse Effect, shall be rendered against the Borrower, any Subsidiary or

 

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any combination thereof and the same shall remain undischarged for a period of 60 consecutive days during which execution shall not be effectively stayed or bonded pending appeal; or

 

(l) an ERISA Event shall have occurred and shall be outstanding that, when taken together with all other ERISA Events that have occurred and are then outstanding, would reasonably be expected to result in liability of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount exceeding $50,000,000, individually or in the aggregate;

 

then, and in every such event (other than an event with respect to the Borrower described in paragraph (h) or (i) of this Article VII), and at any time thereafter during the continuance of such event, the Administrative Agent may, and at the request of the Required Lenders shall, by notice to the Borrower, take either or both of the following actions, at the same or different times: (i) terminate the Lenders’ Total Commitments, and thereupon such Total Commitments shall terminate immediately, and (ii) declare the Loans then outstanding to be due and payable in whole (or in part, in which case any principal not so declared to be due and payable may thereafter be declared to be due and payable), and thereupon the principal of the Loans so declared to be due and payable, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other monetary Obligations of the Borrower accrued hereunder, shall become due and payable immediately, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower; and in case of any event with respect to the Borrower described in paragraph (h) or (i) of this Article VII, the Lenders’ Total Commitments shall automatically terminate and the principal of the Loans then outstanding, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and all other monetary payment Obligations of the Borrower accrued hereunder, shall automatically become due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower.

 

ARTICLE VIII

The Administrative Agent; The Agents

 

(a) Each of the Lenders and the Issuing Bank hereby irrevocably appoints the Administrative Agent as its agent and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Without limiting the foregoing, each Lender and the Issuing Bank hereby authorize the Administrative Agent to execute and deliver, and to perform its respective obligations under, each of the Loan Documents to which the Administrative Agent is a party, to exercise all rights, powers and remedies that the Administrative Agent may have under such Loan Documents.

 

(b) Each bank serving as an Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not an Agent, and such bank and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to and generally engage in any kind of business with the Borrower or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof as if it were not an Agent hereunder.

 

(c) The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth herein. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (i) the Administrative Agent shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing, (ii) the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated hereby that the Administrative Agent is required to

 

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exercise in writing as directed by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 9.02), and (iii) except as expressly set forth herein, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that is communicated to or obtained by any bank serving as the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity. The Administrative Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 9.02) or in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default unless and until written notice thereof is given to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower or a Lender, and the Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (v) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with the Loan Documents, (w) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered hereunder or in connection herewith, (x) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth in any Loan Document, (y) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of the Loan Documents or any other agreement, instrument or document, or (z) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article IV or elsewhere herein, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent.

 

(d) The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or sent by the proper Person. The Administrative Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to be made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. The Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.

 

(e) The Administrative Agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of the preceding paragraphs shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of the Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Agent.

 

(f) Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor Admnistrative Agent as provided in this paragraph, the Administrative Agent may resign at any time by notifying the Lenders, the Issuing Bank and the Borrower. Upon any such resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right to appoint a successor Administrative Agent, subject to the approval of the Borrower (not to be unreasonably withheld) so long as the Borrower is not then in Default. If no successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring Administrative Agent may, on behalf of the relevant Lenders and the Issuing Bank, appoint a successor Administrative Agent, subject to the approval of the Borrower (not to be unreasonably withheld) so long as the Borrower is not then in Default, which

 

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shall be a bank with an office in New York, New York, or an Affiliate of any such bank. Upon the acceptance of its appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of such retiring Administrative Agent, and such retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder. The fees payable by the Borrower to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Borrower and such successor. After the Administrative Agent’s resignation hereunder, the provisions of this Article and Section 9.03 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Administrative Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while it was acting as Administrative Agent.

 

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

 

(h) Each Lender and the Issuing Bank agree that any action taken by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders (or, where required by the express terms of this Agreement, a greater proportion of the Lenders) in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement or of the other Loan Documents, and the exercise by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders (or, where so required, such greater proportion) of the powers set forth herein or therein, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, shall be authorized and binding upon all of the Lenders and the Issuing Bank. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent shall have the sole and exclusive right and authority to act as the disbursing and collecting agent for, respectively, (and, following an Event of Default, for each of) the Revolving Credit Lenders (and the Issuing Bank) and the Term Lenders with respect to all payments and collections arising in connection herewith.

 

(i) The Administrative Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized by each of the Lenders to effect any release of guarantee obligations contemplated by Section 9.14.

 

(j) None of the Joint Lead Arrangers, the Syndication Agent, the Co-Syndication Agent or the Documentation Agents shall have, nor by reason of being named in this Agreement shall be deemed to have, any obligations under this Agreement.

 

ARTICLE IX

Miscellaneous

 

SECTION 9.01. Notices. (a) Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone (and subject to paragraph (b) below), all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by telecopy, as follows:

 

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(i) if to the Borrower, to it at 100 Parsons Pond Drive, Franklin Lakes, New Jersey 07417, Attention of Chief Financial Officer (Telecopy No. (201) 269-2874), with a copy to the Attention of Vice President Treasurer (Telecopy No. (201) 269-1051);

 

(ii) if to the Administrative Agent, to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Loan and Agency Services Group, 1111 Fannin, Floor 10, Houston, TX 77002, Attention of Vikki Toler/Jennifer Anyigbo (Telecopy No. (713) 750 2949/2782), with a copy to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 270 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017, Attention of Dawn Lee Lum (Telecopy No. (212) 270-3279);

 

(iii) if to the Issuing Bank, to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Standby Letters of Credit Department, 10420 Highland Manor Drive, Tampa, FL, 33610, Attention of Stephen Carew (Telecopy No. 813 ###-###-#### or ###-###-####), with a copy to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Loan and Agency Services Group, 1111 Fannin, Floor 10, Houston, TX 77002, Attention of Vikki Toler/Jennifer Anyigbo (Telecopy No. (713) 750 2949/2782), and with a copy to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 270 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017, Attention of Dawn Lee Lum (Telecopy No. (212) 270-3279);

 

(iv) if to the Swingline Lender, to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Loan and Agency Services Group, 1111 Fannin, Floor 10, Houston, TX 77002, Attention of Vikki Toler/Jennifer Anyigbo (Telecopy No. (713) 750 2949/2782), with a copy to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 270 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017, Attention of Dawn Lee Lum (Telecopy No. (212) 270-3279); and

 

(v) if to any other Lender, to it at its address (or telecopy number) set forth in its Administrative Questionnaire.

 

(b) Notices and other communications to the Lenders hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent and financial statements required to be furnished hereunder by the Borrower may be furnished by means of posting to an IntraLinks site to which the Administrative Agent and each Lender has been granted access; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices pursuant to Article II unless otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and the applicable Lender. The Administrative Agent or the Borrower may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications.

 

(c) Any party hereto may change its address or telecopy number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto. All notices and other communications given to any party hereto in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed to have been given on the earlier of (i) date of receipt and (ii) (if applicable) three Business Days following the sending thereof by registered mail.

 

SECTION 9.02. Waivers; Amendments. (a) No failure or delay by the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender in exercising any right or power hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right or power, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such a right or power, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or power. The rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders hereunder are

 

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cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies that they would otherwise have. No waiver of any provision of this Agreement or consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be permitted by paragraph (b) of this Section, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which given. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the making of a Loan or issuance of a Letter of Credit shall not be construed as a waiver of any Default, regardless of whether the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the Issuing Bank may have had notice or knowledge of such Default at the time.

 

(b) Neither this Agreement nor any provision hereof may be waived, amended or modified except pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Borrower and the Required Lenders or by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent with the consent of the Required Lenders; provided that no such agreement shall (i) increase any Commitment of any Lender without the written consent of such Lender, (ii) increase the maximum aggregate amount of Swing Line Loans or L/C Exposure permitted to be outstanding hereunder without the written consent of the Required Class Lenders under the Revolving Credit Facility and (in the case of such increase to the maximum aggregate amount of L/C Exposure) the Issuing Bank, (iii) reduce the principal amount of any Loan or L/C Disbursement or reduce the rate of interest thereon (other than a waiver of default interest arising under Section 2.12(c)), or reduce any fees payable hereunder, without the written consent of each Lender affected thereby, (iv) postpone the Maturity Date or the scheduled date of payment of any interest on any Loan, or any fees payable hereunder, or reduce the amount of, waive or excuse any such payment, or postpone the scheduled date of expiration of any Commitment, without the written consent of each Lender affected thereby, (v) change Section 2.17(b) or (c) in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby, without the written consent of each Lender affected thereby, (vi) release any Guarantor from its guarantee obligations under the Guaranty (except as permitted by Section 9.14) without the written consent of each Lender, (vii) change any of the provisions of this Section or the definition of “Required Lenders” or any other provision hereof specifying the number or percentage of Lenders required to waive, amend or modify any rights hereunder or make any determination or grant any consent hereunder, without the written consent of each Lender or (viii) change the allocation between any optional prepayments of Term Loans and Revolving Loans, without the written consent of the applicable Required Class Lenders affected thereby; provided, further that no such agreement shall amend, modify or otherwise affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender hereunder without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender, as the case may be; provided, further, that the Administrative Agent and the Borrower may, with the consent of the other, amend, modify or supplement this Agreement to cure any ambiguity, typographical error, defect or inconsistency, so long as such amendment, modification or supplement does not adversely affect the rights of any Lender or any Issuing Bank; provided, further, that the Borrower and the Administrative Agent may enter into any amendment necessary to implement the terms of an Incremental Term Loan or Revolving Credit Facility Increase in accordance with the terms of this Agreement without the consent of any Lender.

 

SECTION 9.03. Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver. (a) The Borrower shall pay (i) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent, the Joint Lead Arrangers, and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons, including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel, expenses incurred in connection with due diligence and travel, courier, reproduction, printing and delivery expenses and expenses related to the use

 

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of IntraLinks, in connection with the arrangement and syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein, the preparation, execution, delivery and administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or any amendments, waivers, modifications or extensions (including amendments, waivers, modifications or extensions proposed by the Borrower) of the provisions hereof and thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated); provided that the Borrower shall not be required (except in connection with the primary syndication of the Loans) to pay any fees and expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent, the Joint Lead Arrangers or any Related Parties of any of the foregoing Persons incurred in connection with an assignment or participation of any rights or obligations of a Lender hereunder unless initiated by the Borrower under Section 2.18(b) other than as a result of a default by the Lender; (ii) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Issuing Bank (without duplication of amounts described in Section 2.11(b)) in connection with the issuance, amendment, waiver, modification, extension or renewal (including proposed amendments, waivers, modifications, extensions or renewals) of any Letter of Credit or any demand for payment thereunder; and (iii) all out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank, any Lender and the Joint Lead Arrangers, including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank, any Lender and the Joint Lead Arrangers in connection with the enforcement or protection of its rights under and in connection with this Agreement or the Loan Documents, including its rights under this Section or in connection with the Loans made or Letters of Credit issued hereunder, including all such out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with any workout proceedings, enforcement costs and documentary taxes or negotiations in respect of such Loans or Letters of Credit. All amounts due under this clause (a) shall be payable not later than 30 days after written demand therefor.

 

(b) The Borrower shall indemnify the each Agent, the Issuing Bank, each Lender, the Joint Lead Arrangers and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an “Indemnitee”) against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all reasonable out-of pocket costs, losses, claims, damages, liabilities and related expenses, including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Indemnitee, incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee arising out of, in connection with any actual or threatened third-party claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding (a “Third-Party Claim”), whether based on contract, tort or any other theory and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto, relating to (i) the execution or delivery of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the performance by the parties hereto of their respective obligations hereunder or the consummation of the Transactions, the Acquisition or any other transactions contemplated hereby, (ii) any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by the Issuing Bank to honor a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the documents presented in connection with such demand do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit) or (iii) any actual or alleged presence or release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property owned or operated by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Environmental Liability related in any way to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries; provided that the foregoing indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith of such Indemnitee. Upon receipt of notice of any Third-Party Claim, the Indemnitee shall promptly notify the Borrower thereof. The Borrower, in its sole discretion, upon written notice to the Indemnitee(s), may elect to defend (or may at any time assume the defense of) and may, with the consent of the Indemnitee(s) (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld), settle or compromise any such Third-Party Claim, using counsel

 

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appointed by Borrower, which counsel shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnitee, if such settlement or compromise would result in the full release of Indemnitee from any liability arising thereof, or with the consent of the Indemnitee (not to be unreasonably withheld). No Indemnitee may compromise or settle or consent to the entry of judgment or determination of liability with respect to a Third-Party Claim for which it is seeking indemnification hereof, without the consent of Borrower. All amounts due under this clause (b) shall be payable not later than 30 days after written demand therefor.

 

(c) To the extent that the Borrower fails to pay any amount required to be paid by it to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender under paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, (i) each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, and (ii) each Revolving Credit Lender severally agrees to pay to the Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender, as the case may be, respectively, such Lender’s Applicable Percentage with respect to the Facilities and such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) of such respective unpaid amounts; provided that the unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage, liability or related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Swingline Lender in its capacity as such. All amounts due under this clause (c) shall be payable promptly after written demand therefor.

 

(d) To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Borrower shall not assert, and hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnitee, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the Transactions, the Acquisition, any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds thereof.

 

SECTION 9.04. Successors and Assigns. (a) The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any Affiliate of the Issuing Bank that issues any Letter of Credit), except that (i) the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Lender (and any such attempted assignment or transfer by the Borrower without such consent shall be null and void) and (ii) no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer its rights or obligations hereunder except in accordance with this Section. Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any Affiliate of the Issuing Bank that issues any Letter of Credit), Participants (to the extent provided in paragraph (c) of this Section) and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.

 

(b) (i) Subject to the conditions set forth in paragraph (b)(ii) below, any Lender may assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Total Commitments and the Loans at the time owing to it) with the prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) of:

 

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(A) the Borrower, provided that no consent of the Borrower shall be required for an assignment (x) to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender, or an Approved Fund of a Lender or (y) if an Event of Default under paragraph (a), (b), (h) or (i) of Article VII has occurred and is continuing, to any other assignee;

 

(B) the Administrative Agent; provided that no consent of the Administrative Agent shall be required for an assignment (i) with respect to any Term Loan, to an assignee that is a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender, an Approved Fund of a Lender or a Federal Reserve Bank, immediately prior to giving effect to such assignment or (ii) with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility, to an assignee that is a Lender under the Revolving Credit Facility; and

 

(C) with respect to any assignment of Revolving Credit Commitments, Revolving Credit Exposure or any other rights and obligations under the Revolving Credit Facility, the Issuing Bank.

 

(ii) Assignments shall be subject to the following additional conditions:

 

(A) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund of a Lender or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitment or Loans of any Class, the amount of the Commitment or Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall not be less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof unless each of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent otherwise consent, provided that no such consent of the Borrower shall be required if an Event of Default under paragraph (a), (b), (h) or (i) of Article VII has occurred and is continuing;

 

(B) each partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all an assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement; provided that this Section 9.04(b)(ii)(B) shall not be construed to prohibit assignment of a proportionate part of all such assigning Lender’s rights and obligations in respect of one Class of Commitments or Loans;

 

(C) the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 payable to the Administrative Agent; provided, that such fee shall only be required to be paid once in connection with a combination of substantially contemporaneous (as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent) assignments made to assignees which are Affiliates of each other or made to Approved Funds of an assignee; and

 

(D) the assignee, if it is not an existing Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire.

 

(iii) Subject to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to paragraph (b)(iv) of this Section 9.04, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of

 

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a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.14, 2.15, 2.16 and 9.03). Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this Section 9.04 shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with paragraph (c) of this Section 9.04.

 

(iv) The Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at one of its offices a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and shall record each assignment made in accordance with this Agreement from time to time in the Register in accordance with Section 2.09(c).

 

(v) Upon its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Assumption executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee, the assignee’s completed Administrative Questionnaire (unless the assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder), the processing and recordation fee referred to in paragraph (b)(ii)(C) of this Section 9.04 and any written consent to such assignment required by paragraph (b)(i) of this Section 9.04, the Administrative Agent shall accept such Assignment and Assumption and record the information contained therein in the Register. No assignment shall be effective for purposes of this Agreement unless it has been recorded in the Register as provided in this paragraph.

 

(c) (i) Any Lender may, without the consent of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender, sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (a “Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Total Commitment and the Loans owing to it); provided that (A) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (B) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations arising from such participations so sold by such Lender and (C) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver described in the first proviso to Section 9.02(b) that affects such Participant. Subject to paragraph (c)(ii) of this Section 9.04, the Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.14, 2.15 and 2.16 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section 9.04. To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 9.08 as though it were a Lender, provided that such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.17(c) as though it were a Lender.

 

(ii) A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Sections 2.14, 2.15 or 2.16 than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the participation sold to such Participant, unless the sale of the participation to such Participant is made with the Borrower’s prior written consent. A

 

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Participant that would be a Foreign Lender if it were a Lender shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section 2.16 unless the Borrower is notified of the participation sold to such Participant and such Participant agrees, for the benefit of the Borrower, to comply with Section 2.16(e) and (f) as though it were a Lender.

 

(d) Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent (except as may be required under Section 9.04(b)(i) in connection with an assignment resulting from an enforcement of a pledge or security interest) pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank, and this Section shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment of a security interest; provided that no such pledge or assignment of a security interest shall release a Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.

 

SECTION 9.05. Survival. All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made by the Borrower herein and in the certificates or other instruments delivered in connection with or pursuant to this Agreement shall be considered to have been relied upon by the other parties hereto and shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the making of any Loans and issuance of any Letters of Credit, regardless of any investigation made by any such other party or on its behalf and notwithstanding that the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any Default or incorrect representation or warranty at the time any credit is extended hereunder, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as the principal of or any accrued interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount payable under this Agreement is outstanding and unpaid or any Letter of Credit is outstanding and so long as the Commitments have not expired or terminated. The provisions of Sections 2.14, 2.15, 2.16 and 9.03 and Article VIII shall survive and remain in full force and effect regardless of the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the repayment of the Loans, the expiration or termination of the Letters of Credit and the Commitments or the termination of this Agreement or any provision hereof.

 

SECTION 9.06. Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents in effect constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof. Except as provided in Section 4.01, this Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts hereof which, when taken together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties hereto, and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by telecopy shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.

 

SECTION 9.07. Severability. Any provision of this Agreement held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without affecting the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof; and the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate such provision in any other jurisdiction.

 

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SECTION 9.08. Right of Setoff. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Lender and each of its Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held and other obligations at any time owing by such Lender or Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower against any of and all the obligations of the Borrower now or hereafter existing under this Agreement held by such Lender, irrespective of whether or not such Lender shall have made any demand under this Agreement and although such obligations may be unmatured. The rights of each Lender under this Section 9.08 are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) which such Lender may have.

 

SECTION 9.09. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process. (a) This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the law of the State of New York.

 

(b) The Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of New York sitting in New York County and of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, and any appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York State or, to the extent permitted by law, in such Federal court. Each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law. Nothing in this Agreement shall affect any right that the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement against the Borrower or its properties in the courts of any jurisdiction.

 

(c) The Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement in any court referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section. Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court.

 

(d) Each party to this Agreement irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner provided for notices in Section 9.01. Nothing in this Agreement will affect the right of any party to this Agreement to serve process in any other manner permitted by law.

 

SECTION 9.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY AND THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B)

 

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ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.

 

SECTION 9.11. Headings. Article and Section headings and the Table of Contents used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not part of this Agreement and shall not affect the construction of, or be taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.

 

SECTION 9.12. Confidentiality. (a) Subject as provided in paragraph (b) below, each of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed (i) to its and its Affiliates’ directors, officers, employees and agents, including accountants, legal counsel and other advisors (it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and agree to keep such Information confidential), (ii) to the extent requested by any regulatory authority, (iii) to the extent required by applicable laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process or in any pending legal or administrative proceeding (in which case the applicable party agrees to inform the Borrower promptly thereof in advance, if permitted by applicable law), (iv) to any other party to this Agreement, (v) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or any suit, action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or the enforcement of rights hereunder, (vi) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section, to (x) any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement or (y) any actual or prospective counterparty (or its advisors) to any swap or derivative transaction relating to the Borrower and its obligations, (vii) with the consent of the Borrower or (viii) to the extent such Information (x) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section 9.12 or (y) becomes available to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than the Borrower or any of its Affiliates. For the purposes of this paragraph, “Information” means all information received from the Borrower or any of its Affiliates relating to the Borrower or its business in connection with the facilities for the Loans in connection with the performance by the Administrative Agent, Issuing Bank and the Lenders, other than any such information that is available to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis prior to disclosure by the Borrower or any of its Affiliates; provided that, in the case of information received from the Borrower after the Effective Date, such information is clearly identified at the time of delivery as confidential. Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this paragraph shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information.

 

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9.12(a) or anything to the contrary set forth herein, each party to this Agreement (and each of their respective employees, representatives or other agents) may disclose to any and all persons, without limitations of any kind, the tax treatment and tax structure of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby.

 

(c) EACH LENDER ACKNOWLEDGES THAT INFORMATION AS DEFINED IN SECTION 9.12(a) FURNISHED TO IT PURSUANT TO THIS AGREEMENT MAY INCLUDE MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION CONCERNING THE

 

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BORROWER AND ITS RELATED PARTIES OR THEIR RESPECTIVE SECURITIES, THAT IT HAS DEVELOPED COMPLIANCE PROCEDURES REGARDING THE USE OF MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION AND THAT IT WILL HANDLE SUCH MATERIAL NON-PUBLIC INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THOSE PROCEDURES AND APPLICABLE LAW, INCLUDING FEDERAL AND STATE SECURITIES LAWS.

 

SECTION 9.13. Interest Rate Limitation. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if at any time the interest rate applicable to any Loan, together with all fees, charges and other amounts which are treated as interest on such Loan under applicable law (collectively the “Charges”), shall exceed the maximum lawful rate (the “Maximum Rate”) which may be contracted for, charged, taken, received or reserved by the Lender holding such Loan in accordance with applicable law, the rate of interest payable in respect of such Loan hereunder, together with all Charges payable in respect thereof, shall be limited to the Maximum Rate and, to the extent lawful, the interest and Charges that would have been payable in respect of such Loan but were not payable as a result of the operation of this Section shall be cumulated and the interest and Charges payable to such Lender in respect of other Loans or periods shall be increased (but not above the Maximum Rate therefor) until such cumulated amount, together with interest thereon at the Federal Funds Effective Rate to the date of repayment, shall have been received by such Lender.

 

SECTION 9.14. Release of Guarantors.

 

(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in any other Loan Document, upon request of the Borrower in connection with any disposition permitted by the Loan Documents, the Administrative Agent shall (without notice to, or vote or consent of, any Lender) take such actions as shall be required to release any guarantee obligations under any Loan Document of any Subsidiary Guarantor being disposed of in such disposition, to the extent necessary to permit consummation of such disposition in accordance with the Loan Documents.

 

(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or any other Loan Document, when the principal and interest with respect to all Loans and all other monetary payment Obligations which are then due and payable have been paid in full, all Commitments have terminated or expired and no Letter of Credit shall be outstanding, upon request of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall (without notice to, or vote or consent of, any Lender) take such actions as shall be required to release all guarantee obligations under any Loan Document of any Guarantor. Any such release of guarantee obligations shall be deemed subject to the provision that such guarantee obligations shall be reinstated if within 180 days after such release (or such longer period under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect during which any payment in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations guaranteed thereby can be annulled, avoided, set aside, rescinded, invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential or otherwise required to be refunded or repaid) any portion of any payment in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations guaranteed thereby shall be rescinded or must otherwise be restored or returned upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation or reorganization of the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor, or upon or as a result of the appointment of a receiver, intervenor or conservator of, or trustee or similar officer for, the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor or any substantial part of its property, or otherwise, all as though such payment had not been made; provided, however, that any such reinstated guarantee shall be released immediately upon the Guaranteed Obligations being indefeasibly paid in full.

 

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SECTION 9.15. USA PATRIOT Act. Each Lender hereby notifies the Borrower that pursuant to the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the “Act”), it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Borrower, which information includes the name and address of the Borrower and other information that will allow such Lender to identify the Borrower in accordance with the Act.

 

[SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.

 

MEDCO HEALTH SOLUTIONS, INC.,

as Borrower

By:

 

/S/ JOANN REED

   
   

Name:

  JoAnn Reed
   

Title:

 

Senior Vice President and

Chief Financial Officer


JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,

individually as a Lender and the Issuing Bank

and as Administrative Agent

By:

 

/S/ TOMAS T. HOU

   
 
   

Name:

  Tomas T. Hou
   

Title:

  Vice President


BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,

as a Lender

By:

 

/S/ JOSEPH L. CORAH

   
   

Name:

  Joseph L. Corah
   

Title:

  Senior Vice President


THE BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI LTD.

NEW YORK BRANCH

By:

 

/S/ SPENCER HUGHES

   
   

Name:

  Spencer Hughes
   

Title:

  Authorized Signatory


CITICORP NORTH AMERICA, INC.,

as a Lender

By:

 

/S/ CHRISTOPHER L. SNIDER

   
   

Name:

  Christopher L. Snider
   

Title:

  Vice President
       

GRB Consumer and Healthcare

388 Greenwich Street, 23rd FL

New York, NY 10013

212 ###-###-####


WACHOVIA BANK, N.A.,

as a Lender

By:

 

/S/ RICHARD L. NELSON

   
   

Name:

  Richard L. Nelson
   

Title:

  Vice President


MIZUHO CORPORATE BANK, LTD.,

as a Lender

By:

 

/S/ RAYMOND VENTURA

   
   

Name:

  Raymond Ventura
   

Title:

  Senior Vice President


SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION

as a Lender

By:

  /s/ DAVID A. BUCK
   
   

Name:

  David A. Buck
   

Title:

  Senior Vice President


ING CAPITAL LLC,

as a Lender

By:

 

/S/ MICHAEL P. GARVIN, JR.

   
   

Name:

  Michael P. Garvin, Jr.
   

Title:

  Director


SUNTRUST BANK

as a Lender

By:

 

/S/ MARK D. MATTSON

   
   

Name:

  Mark D. Mattson
   

Title:

  Managing Director


CALYON NEW YORK BRANCH,

as a Lender

By:

 

/S/ CHARLES HEIDSIECK

   
   

Name:

  Charles Heidsieck
   

Title:

  Managing Director

By:

 

/S/ TOM RANDOLPH

   
   

Name:

  Tom Randolph
   

Title:

  Director


COMMERZBANK AG, NEW YORK AND

GRAND CAYMAN BRANCHES

as a Lender

By:

 

/S/ ROBERT S. TAYLOR

   
   

Name:

  Robert S. Taylor
   

Title:

  Senior Vice President

By:

 

/S/ ANDREW P. LUSK

   
   

Name:

  Andrew P. Lusk
   

Title:

  Vice President


KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as a Lender

By:

 

/S/ J.T. TAYLOR

   
   

Name:

  J.T. Taylor
   

Title:

  Senior Vice President


FIRST TENNESSEE BANK, N.A.

as a Lender

By:

 

/S/ BOB NIEMAN

   
   

Name:

  Bob Nieman
   

Title:

  Senior Vice President


GOLDMAN SACHS CREDIT PARTNERS L.P.

as a Lender

By:

 

/S/ THOMAS CONNOLLY

   
   

Name:

  Thomas Connolly
   

Title:

  Authorized Signatory


LEHMAN COMMERCIAL PAPER INC.,

as a Lender

By:

 

/S/ JANINE M. SHUGAN

   
   

Name:

  Janine M. Shugan
   

Title:

  Authorized Signatory


PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as a Lender

By:

 

/S/ MICHAEL NARDO

   
   

Name:

  Michael Nardo
   

Title:

  Senior Vice President


REGIONS BANK,

as a Lender

By:

 

/S/ CONEY BURGESS

   
   

Name:

  Coney Burgess
   

Title:

  Vice President


THE BANK OF NEW YORK,

as a Lender

By:

 

/S/ THOMAS J. MCCORMACK

   
   

Name:

  Thomas J. McCormack
   

Title:

  Vice President


THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA,

as a Lender

By:

 

/S/ CAROLYN A. CALLOWAY

   
   

Name:

  Carolyn A. Calloway
   

Title:

  Managing Director


US BANK, N.A.,

as a Lender

By:

 

/S/ THOMAS A. HECKMAN

   
   

Name:

  Thomas A. Heckman
   

Title:

  AVP