Ex-10.1 - Credit & Guaranty Agreement
EX-10.1 2 b61000niexv10w1.txt EX-10.1 - CREDIT & GUARANTY AGREEMENT EXHIBIT 10.1 EXECUTION COPY CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT DATED AS OF APRIL 11, 2006 AMONG NAVISITE, INC., CERTAIN SUBSIDIARIES OF NAVISITE, INC., AS GUARANTORS, VARIOUS LENDERS, AND SILVER POINT FINANCE, LLC AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND COLLATERAL AGENT $73,000,000 SENIOR SECURED CREDIT FACILITIES TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE ---- SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION................................. 1 1.1 Definitions...................................................... 1 1.2 Accounting Terms................................................. 28 1.3 Interpretation, etc.............................................. 28 SECTION 2. LOANS.......................................................... 28 2.1 Term Loan........................................................ 28 2.2 Revolving Loans.................................................. 29 2.3 [Reserved]....................................................... 30 2.4 Pro Rata Shares; Availability of Funds........................... 30 2.5 Use of Proceeds.................................................. 31 2.6 Evidence of Debt; Register; Lenders' Books and Records; Notes.... 31 2.7 Interest on Loans................................................ 32 2.8 Conversion/Continuation.......................................... 33 2.9 Default Interest................................................. 34 2.10 Fees............................................................. 34 2.11 Scheduled Payments/Commitment Reductions......................... 35 2.12 Voluntary Prepayments/Commitment Reductions...................... 36 2.13 Mandatory Prepayments/Commitment Reductions...................... 37 2.14 Application of Prepayments/Reductions............................ 39 2.15 General Provisions Regarding Payments............................ 40 2.16 Ratable Sharing.................................................. 42 2.17 Making or Maintaining LIBOR Rate Loans........................... 42 2.18 Increased Costs; Capital Adequacy................................ 44 2.19 Taxes; Withholding, etc.......................................... 45 2.20 Obligation to Mitigate........................................... 48 2.21 Defaulting Lenders............................................... 48 2.22 Removal or Replacement of a Lender............................... 49 SECTION 3. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT........................................... 50 3.1 Closing Date..................................................... 50 3.2 Conditions to Each Credit Extension.............................. 55 SECTION 4. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES................................. 56 4.1 Organization; Requisite Power and Authority; Qualification....... 56 4.2 Capital Stock and Ownership...................................... 56 4.3 Due Authorization................................................ 57 4.4 No Conflict...................................................... 57 4.5 Governmental Consents............................................ 57 4.6 Binding Obligation............................................... 57 4.7 Historical Financial Statements.................................. 57
i 4.8 Projections...................................................... 58 4.9 No Material Adverse Change....................................... 58 4.10 No Restricted Junior Payments.................................... 58 4.11 Adverse Proceedings, etc......................................... 58 4.12 Payment of Taxes................................................. 58 4.13 Properties....................................................... 59 4.14 Environmental Matters............................................ 59 4.15 No Defaults...................................................... 60 4.16 Material Contracts............................................... 60 4.17 Governmental Regulation.......................................... 60 4.18 Margin Stock..................................................... 60 4.19 Employee Matters................................................. 60 4.20 Employee Benefit Plans........................................... 61 4.21 Certain Fees..................................................... 62 4.22 Silicon Valley Bank Facility..................................... 62 4.23 [Reserved........................................................ 62 4.24 Compliance with Statutes, etc.................................... 62 4.25 Disclosure....................................................... 62 4.26 Patriot Act...................................................... 63 SECTION 5. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS.......................................... 63 5.1 Financial Statements and Other Reports........................... 63 5.2 Existence........................................................ 68 5.3 Payment of Taxes and Claims...................................... 68 5.4 Maintenance of Properties; Payments of Leaseholds................ 68 5.5 Insurance........................................................ 68 5.6 Inspections...................................................... 69 5.7 Lenders Meetings................................................. 69 5.8 Compliance with Laws............................................. 69 5.9 Environmental.................................................... 69 5.10 Subsidiaries..................................................... 72 5.11 Real Estate Assets............................................... 73 5.12 Interest Rate Protection......................................... 74 5.13 Further Assurances............................................... 74 5.14 Cash Management Systems.......................................... 74 5.15 Post Closing Matters............................................. 74 5.16 Books............................................................ 74 5.17 Atlantic Existing Credit Facility................................ 75 5.18 Atlantic Term Loan Facility...................................... 75 SECTION 6. NEGATIVE COVENANTS............................................. 75 6.1 Indebtedness..................................................... 75 6.2 Liens............................................................ 77 6.3 Equitable Lien................................................... 79 6.4 No Further Negative Pledges...................................... 79 6.5 Restricted Junior Payments....................................... 79 6.6 Restrictions on Subsidiary Distributions......................... 79
ii 6.7 Investments...................................................... 80 6.8 Financial Covenants.............................................. 80 6.9 Fundamental Changes; Disposition of Assets; Acquisitions......... 83 6.10 Disposal of Subsidiary Interests................................. 84 6.11 Sales and Lease Backs............................................ 84 6.12 Transactions with Shareholders and Affiliates.................... 84 6.13 Conduct of Business.............................................. 85 6.14 Permitted Activities of Company.................................. 85 6.15 Severance and Benefit Plans...................................... 85 6.16 Amendments or Waivers of with respect to Subordinated Indebtedness..................................................... 85 6.17 Fiscal Year...................................................... 85 6.18 Deposit Accounts................................................. 85 6.19 Amendments to Organizational Agreements and Material Contracts... 85 6.20 Prepayments of Certain Indebtedness.............................. 85 SECTION 7. GUARANTY....................................................... 86 7.1 Guaranty of the Obligations...................................... 86 7.2 Contribution by Guarantors....................................... 86 7.3 Payment by Guarantors............................................ 87 7.4 Liability of Guarantors Absolute................................. 87 7.5 Waivers by Guarantors............................................ 89 7.6 Guarantors' Rights of Subrogation, Contribution, etc............. 90 7.7 Subordination of Other Obligations............................... 91 7.8 Continuing Guaranty.............................................. 91 7.9 Authority of Guarantors or Company............................... 91 7.10 Financial Condition of Company................................... 91 7.11 Bankruptcy, etc.................................................. 91 7.12 Discharge of Guaranty Upon Sale of Guarantor..................... 92 7.13 Taxes............................................................ 92 SECTION 8. EVENTS OF DEFAULT.............................................. 92 8.1 Events of Default................................................ 92 SECTION 9. AGENTS......................................................... 96 9.1 Appointment of Agents............................................ 96 9.2 Powers and Duties................................................ 96 9.3 General Immunity................................................. 96 9.4 Agents Entitled to Act as Lender................................. 97 9.5 Lenders' Representations, Warranties and Acknowledgment.......... 98 9.6 Right to Indemnity............................................... 98 9.7 Successor Administrative Agent................................... 99 9.8 Collateral Documents and Guaranty................................ 99 SECTION 10. MISCELLANEOUS................................................. 100 10.1 Notices.......................................................... 100
iii 10.2 Expenses......................................................... 101 10.3 Indemnity........................................................ 101 10.4 Set Off.......................................................... 102 10.5 Amendments and Waivers........................................... 102 10.6 Successors and Assigns; Participations........................... 104 10.7 Independence of Covenants........................................ 107 10.8 Survival of Representations, Warranties and Agreements........... 108 10.9 No Waiver; Remedies Cumulative................................... 108 10.10 Marshalling; Payments Set Aside.................................. 108 10.11 Severability..................................................... 108 10.12 Obligations Several; Independent Nature of Lenders' Rights....... 108 10.13 Headings......................................................... 109 10.14 APPLICABLE LAW................................................... 109 10.15 CONSENT TO JURISDICTION.......................................... 109 10.16 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL............................................. 109 10.17 Confidentiality.................................................. 110 10.18 Usury Savings Clause............................................. 111 10.19 Counterparts..................................................... 111 10.20 Effectiveness.................................................... 111 10.21 Original Issue Discount.......................................... 111 10.22 Patriot Act...................................................... 112
iv APPENDICES: A-1 Term Loan Commitments A-2 Revolving Commitments B Notice Addresses SCHEDULES: 1.1 Impaired Leases 4.1 Jurisdictions of Organization and Qualification 4.2 Capital Stock and Ownership 4.11 Adverse Proceedings 4.13(b) Real Estate Assets 4.22 SVB Receivables 4.16 Material Contracts 5.11 Closing Date Leasehold Properties 5.15 Certain Post Closing Matters 6.1 Certain Indebtedness 6.2 Certain Liens 6.7 Certain Investments 6.12 Certain Affiliate Transactions EXHIBITS: A-1 Funding Notice A-2 Conversion/Continuation Notice B-1 Term Loan Note B-2 Revolving Loan Note C Compliance Certificate D-1 Opinion of BRL Law Group LLC D-2 Opinion of Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference LLP D-2 Opinion of Heller Ehrman LLP E Assignment Agreement F Certificate Regarding Non Bank Status G Closing Date Certificate H Counterpart Agreement I Pledge and Security Agreement J Subordination Agreement K Landlord Waiver and Consent Agreement L Warrant Agreement M Severance Plan N Stock Incentive Plan
v CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT This CREDIT AND GUARANTY AGREEMENT, dated as of April 11, 2006, is entered into by and among NAVISITE, INC., a Delaware corporation ("COMPANY"), and CERTAIN SUBSIDIARIES OF COMPANY, as Guarantors ("GUARANTORS"), the Lenders party hereto from time to time, SILVER POINT FINANCE, LLC ("SILVER POINT"), as Administrative Agent (together with its permitted successors, in such capacity, "ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT") and Collateral Agent (together with its permitted successors, in such capacity, "COLLATERAL AGENT"). RECITALS: WHEREAS, capitalized terms used in these Recitals shall have the respective meanings set forth for such terms in Section 1.1 hereof; WHEREAS, Lenders have agreed to extend certain credit facilities to Company, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $73,000,000, consisting of $70,000,000 aggregate principal amount of a Term Loan and up to $3,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Revolving Commitments, the proceeds of which will be used to refinance certain indebtedness of Company and Guarantors, for working capital and other general corporate purposes, and to pay certain fees and expenses associated with the Transactions; WHEREAS, Guarantors have agreed to guaranty the Obligations of Company hereunder; and WHEREAS, each Credit Party has agreed to secure all of its Obligations by granting to Collateral Agent, for the benefit of Secured Parties, a First Priority Lien on substantially all of its assets, including a pledge of all of the Capital Stock of each of its Domestic Subsidiaries and 65% of all the Capital Stock of each of its Foreign Subsidiaries, NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the agreements, provisions and covenants herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows: SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION 1.1 DEFINITIONS. The following terms used herein, including in the preamble, recitals, exhibits and schedules hereto, shall have the following meanings: "ACT" as defined in Section 4.26. "ADDITIONAL LOANS" as defined in Section 5.17. "ADJUSTED LIBOR RATE" means, for any Interest Rate Determination Date with respect to an Interest Period for a LIBOR Rate Loan, the greater of (A) three and a half percent (3.50%) per annum and (B) the rate per annum obtained by dividing (and rounding upward to the next whole multiple of 1/16 of 1%) (i) (a) the rate per annum (rounded to the nearest 1/100 of 1%) equal to the rate determined by Administrative Agent to be the offered rate which appears on the page of the Telerate Screen which displays an average British Bankers Association Interest Settlement Rate (such page currently being page number 3740 or 3750, as applicable) for deposits (for delivery on the first day of such period) with a term equivalent to such period in Dollars, determined as of approximately 11:00 a.m. (London, England time) on such Interest Rate Determination Date, or (b) in the event the rate referenced in the preceding clause (a) does not appear on such page or service or if such page or service shall cease to be available, the rate per annum (rounded to the nearest 1/100 of 1%) equal to the rate determined by Administrative Agent to be the offered rate on such other page or other service which displays an average British Bankers Association Interest Settlement Rate for deposits (for delivery on the first day of such period) with a term equivalent to such period in Dollars, determined as of approximately 11:00 a.m. (London, England time) on such Interest Rate Determination Date, or (c) in the event the rates referenced in the preceding clauses (a) and (b) are not available, the rate per annum (rounded to the nearest 1/100 of 1%) equal to the rate determined by Administrative Agent in accordance with its customary procedures and utilizing such electronic or quotation as it considers appropriate, by (ii) an amount equal to (a) one minus (b) the Applicable Reserve Requirement. "ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT" as defined in the preamble hereto. "ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT'S ACCOUNT" means an account at a bank designated by Administrative Agent from time to time as the account into which Credit Parties shall make all payments to Administrative Agent for the benefit of Agent and Lenders under this Agreement and the other Credit Documents. "ADVERSE PROCEEDING" means any action, suit, proceeding (whether administrative, judicial or otherwise), governmental investigation or arbitration (whether or not purportedly on behalf of Company or any of its Subsidiaries) at law or in equity, or before or by any Governmental Authority, domestic or foreign (including any Environmental Claims) or other regulatory body or any arbitrator, whether pending or, to the best knowledge of Company or any of its Subsidiaries, threatened against or affecting Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any property of Company or any of its Subsidiaries. "AFFECTED LENDER" as defined in Section 2.17(b). "AFFECTED LOANS" as defined in Section 2.17(b). "AFFILIATE" means, as applied to any Person, any other Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with, that Person. For the purposes of this definition, "control" (including, with correlative meanings, the terms "controlling," "controlled by" and "under common control with"), as applied to any Person, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power (i) to vote 5% or more of the Securities having ordinary voting power for the election of directors of such 2 Person, or (ii) to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of that Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities or by contract or otherwise. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in no event shall any Agent or Lender be considered an "Affiliate" of any Credit Party. "AGENT" means each of Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent. "AGGREGATE AMOUNTS DUE" as defined in Section 2.16. "AGGREGATE PAYMENTS" as defined in Section 7.2. "AGREEMENT" means this Credit and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of April 11, 2006, as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time. "APPLICABLE MARGIN" means (i) with respect to Loans that are LIBOR Rate Loans, a percentage equal to 8.00% per annum and (ii) with respect to Loans that are Base Rate Loans, a percentage equal to 7.00% per annum. "APPLICABLE RESERVE REQUIREMENT" means, at any time, for any LIBOR Rate Loan, the maximum rate, expressed as a decimal, at which reserves (including, without limitation, any basic marginal, special, supplemental, emergency or other reserves) are required to be maintained with respect thereto against "Eurocurrency liabilities" (as such term is defined in Regulation D) under regulations issued from time to time by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or other applicable banking regulator. Without limiting the effect of the foregoing, the Applicable Reserve Requirement shall reflect any other reserves required to be maintained by such member banks with respect to (i) any category of liabilities which includes deposits by reference to which the applicable Adjusted LIBOR Rate or any other interest rate of a Loan is to be determined, or (ii) any category of extensions of credit or other assets which include LIBOR Rate Loans. A LIBOR Rate Loan shall be deemed to constitute Eurocurrency liabilities and as such shall be deemed subject to reserve requirements without benefits of credit for proration, exceptions or offsets that may be available from time to time to the applicable Lender. The rate of interest on LIBOR Rate Loans shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in the Applicable Reserve Requirement. "ASSET SALE" means a sale, lease or sub lease (as lessor or sublessor), sale and leaseback, assignment, conveyance, transfer or other disposition to, or any exchange of property with, any Person (other than Company or any Guarantor), in one transaction or a series of transactions, of all or any part of Company's or any of its Subsidiaries' businesses, assets or properties of any kind, whether real, personal, or mixed and whether tangible or intangible, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, including, without limitation, the Capital Stock of any of Company's Subsidiaries, other than inventory sold or leased in the ordinary course of business. "ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT" means an Assignment and Assumption Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit E, with such amendments or modifications as may be approved by Administrative Agent. 3 "ATLANTIC" means Atlantic Investors, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. "ATLANTIC COLLATERAL RELEASE" means a release, in form and substance satisfactory to Administrative Agent, pursuant to which Atlantic releases all collateral security granted to it by any Credit Party to secure any obligation such Credit Party may have to Atlantic. "ATLANTIC DEBT DOCUMENTS" means the collective reference to the Atlantic Existing Credit Facility, the Atlantic Term Loan Agreement and all documents, instruments and agreements executed or delivered in connection therewith, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, but only to the extent permitted under the terms hereof. "ATLANTIC EXISTING CREDIT FACILITY" means the $3,691,099.53 Amended and Restated Loan Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, between Company and Atlantic. "ATLANTIC FUND GUARANTY" means a guaranty of Atlantic's obligations under the Atlantic Term Loan Agreement made by Atlantic Related Entity in favor of Company and Administrative Agent, in form and substance satisfactory to Administrative Agent. "ATLANTIC PLEDGE" means a pledge agreement made by Atlantic in favor of Collateral Agent pursuant to which Atlantic pledges all shares of Company owned by it to secure any Supplemental Obligations from time to time outstanding, in form and substance satisfactory to Agents. "ATLANTIC RELATED ENTITY" means Unicorn Worldwide Holdings Limited, a British Virgin Islands corporation. "ATLANTIC SIDE LETTER" means that certain letter agreement between Atlantic and Administrative Agent, dated the date hereof, relating to compensation to be provided in connection with the Supplemental Obligations. "ATLANTIC TERM LOAN AGREEMENT" means a subordinated, delayed draw term loan facility in the original principal amount of $5,000,000 (as such amount may be reduced pursuant to the terms thereof and of the Subordination Agreement) provided by Atlantic to Company, in form and substance satisfactory to Administrative Agent. "AUTHORIZED OFFICER" means, as applied to any Person, any individual holding the position of chairman of the board (if an officer), chief executive officer, president or one of its vice presidents (or the equivalent thereof), and such Person's chief financial officer or treasurer. "AVERAGE NET BOOKINGS" means, at any time of determination, the arithmetic average of the New Bookings for each of the prior six months. As used herein, "NET BOOKINGS" means, with respect to the Company's Hosting and Outsourcing business unit, for any month (i) new minimum monthly recurring revenue booked during such month that pursuant to signed and accepted sales orders, minus (ii) minimum monthly recurring revenue under orders cancelled during such month and booked during a prior period and 4 not then recognized as revenue, minus (iii) any reduction in monthly recurring revenue in connection with the loss of a customer during such month or a reduction in a customers minimum committed monthly revenue made during such month. "BANKRUPTCY CODE" means Title 11 of the United States Code entitled "Bankruptcy," as now and hereafter in effect, or any successor statute. "BASE RATE" means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greater of (i) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, and (ii) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 3%. Any change in the Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate shall be effective on the effective day of such change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate, respectively. "BASE RATE LOAN" means a Loan bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Base Rate. "BENEFICIARY" means each Agent and each Lender. "BLOCKED ACCOUNT" has the meaning provided in the Pledge and Security Agreement. "BUSINESS DAY" means (i) any day excluding Saturday, Sunday and any day which is a legal holiday under the laws of the State of New York or is a day on which banking institutions located in such state are authorized or required by law or other governmental action to close, and (ii) with respect to all notices, determinations, fundings and payments in connection with the Adjusted LIBOR Rate or any LIBOR Rate Loans, the term "BUSINESS DAY" shall mean any day which is a Business Day described in clause (i) and which is also a day for trading by and between banks in Dollar deposits in the London interbank market. "CAPITAL LEASE" means, as applied to any Person, any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) any property (whether real, personal or mixed) by that Person as lessee (or the equivalent) that, in conformity with GAAP, is or should be accounted for as a capital lease on the balance sheet of that Person. "CAPITAL STOCK" means any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of a corporation, any and all equivalent ownership interests in a Person (other than a corporation), including, without limitation, partnership interests and membership interests, and any and all warrants, rights or options to purchase or other arrangements or rights to acquire any of the foregoing. "CASH" means money, currency or a credit balance in any demand or Deposit Account. "CASH EQUIVALENTS" means, as at any date of determination, (i) marketable securities (a) issued or directly and unconditionally guaranteed as to interest and principal by the United States Government or (b) issued by any agency of the United States the obligations of which are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, in each 5 case maturing within one year after such date; (ii) marketable direct obligations issued by any state of the United States of America or any political subdivision of any such state or any public instrumentality thereof, in each case maturing within one year after such date and having, at the time of the acquisition thereof, a rating of at least A-1 from S&P or at least P-1 from Moody's; (iii) commercial paper maturing no more than one year from the date of creation thereof and having, at the time of the acquisition thereof, a rating of at least A-1 from S&P or at least P-1 from Moody's; (iv) certificates of deposit or bankers' acceptances maturing within one year after such date and issued or accepted by any Lender or by any commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof or the District of Columbia that (a) is at least "adequately capitalized" (as defined in the regulations of its primary Federal banking regulator), and (b) has Tier 1 capital (as defined in such regulations) of not less than $100,000,000; and (v) shares of any money market mutual fund that (a) has at least 95% of its assets invested continuously in the types of investments referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) above, (b) has net assets of not less than $500,000,000, and (c) has the highest rating obtainable from either S&P or Moody's. "CERTIFICATE REGARDING NON BANK STATUS" means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit F. "CHANGE OF CONTROL" means, at any time, (i) unless Company's Leverage Ratio as at the end of the most recent Fiscal Quarter ending after the Closing Date is less than 3.0 to 1.0, Atlantic shall cease to beneficially own and control at least 30% on a fully diluted basis of the economic and voting interests in the Capital Stock of Company; (ii) any Person or "group" (within the meaning of Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act) other than Atlantic or an affiliate of Atlantic shall beneficially own and control 50% or more of the then-outstanding voting interests in the Capital Stock of Company; (iii) Company shall cease to, directly or indirectly, beneficially own and control 100% on a fully diluted basis of the economic and voting interest in the Capital Stock of any Guarantor; (iv) the majority of the seats (other than vacant seats) on the board of directors (or similar governing body) of Company cease to be occupied by Persons who either (a) were members of the board of directors of Company on the Closing Date, or (b) were nominated for election by the board of directors of Company, a majority of whom were directors on the Closing Date or whose election or nomination for election was previously approved by a majority of such directors; or (v) Atlantic shall grant, or suffer to exist, any Lien on any shares of Company owned by it to the extent that a foreclosure thereon would result in a Change of Control under clauses (i) through (ii), above.. "CLASS" means (i) with respect to Lenders, each of the following classes of Lenders: (a) Lenders having Term Loan Exposure and (b) Lenders having Revolving Exposure, and (ii) with respect to Loans, each of the following classes of Loans: (a) the Term Loan and (b) Revolving Loans. "CLOSING DATE" means the date on which the Term Loan is made. "CLOSING DATE CERTIFICATE" means a Closing Date Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit G-1. 6 "COLLATERAL" means, collectively, all of the real, personal and mixed property (including Capital Stock) in which Liens are purported to be granted pursuant to the Collateral Documents as security for the Obligations. "COLLATERAL AGENT" as defined in the preamble hereto. "COLLATERAL DOCUMENTS" means the Pledge and Security Agreement, the Landlord Personal Property Collateral Access Agreements, if any, and all other instruments, documents and agreements delivered by any Credit Party pursuant to this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents in order to grant to Collateral Agent, for the benefit of Secured Parties, a Lien on any real, personal or mixed property of that Credit Party as security for the Obligations (including, without limitation, any Mortgage required to be executed and delivered by any Credit Party after the Closing Date under the terms of this Agreement). "COLLATERAL QUESTIONNAIRE" means a certificate in form satisfactory to Collateral Agent that provides information with respect to the personal or mixed property of each Credit Party. "COMMITMENT" means any Revolving Commitment or Term Loan Commitment. "COMPANY" as defined in the preamble hereto. "COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE" means a Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C. "CONSOLIDATED ADJUSTED EBITDA" means, for any period, an amount determined for Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis equal to (i) the sum, without duplication, of the amounts for such period of (x) Consolidated Net Income, plus (y) to the extent deducted in determining Consolidated Net Income (a) Consolidated Interest Expense, plus (b) provisions for Taxes based on income, plus (c) total depreciation expense, plus (d) total amortization expense, plus (e) other non-Cash items reducing Consolidated Net Income (excluding any such non-Cash item to the extent that it represents an accrual or reserve for potential Cash items in any future period or amortization of a prepaid Cash item that was paid in a prior period), plus (f) non-cash impairment charges taken in respect of leases other than in respect of those leases identified on Schedule 1.1, plus (g) non-cash stock-based compensation expense incurred in connection with any options issued by Company in any Fiscal Year in connection with Company's stock incentive plan, plus (h) severance expense, plus (i) amortization of financing fees incurred in connection with the Transactions, plus (j) expenses accrued in connection with the preparation of a public offering by the Company that was withdrawn prior to the Closing Date to the extent such expenses were paid prior to the Closing Date minus (ii) to the extent added in determining Consolidated Net Income the sum, without duplication of the amounts for such period of (a) other non-Cash items increasing Consolidated Net Income for such period, plus (b) interest income, plus (c) other income (including, in any event, income recognized in connection with the subleasing of 7 impaired leases), plus (d) cash obligations paid in connection with impaired leases other than those cash obligations identified on Schedule 1.1. "CONSOLIDATED CAPITAL EXPENDITURES" means, for any period, the aggregate of all expenditures of Company and its Subsidiaries during such period determined on a consolidated basis that, in accordance with GAAP, are or should be included in "purchase of property and equipment or which should otherwise be capitalized" or similar items reflected in the consolidated statement of cash flows of Company and its Subsidiaries, provided, that with respect to any Capital Lease, Consolidated Capital Expenditures shall only include the current rental payments due during such period under such Capital Lease. "CONSOLIDATED CASH INTEREST EXPENSE" means, for any period, Consolidated Interest Expense for such period, excluding any amount not payable in Cash. "CONSOLIDATED CURRENT LIABILITIES" means, as at any date of determination, the total liabilities of Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis that may properly be classified as current liabilities in conformity with GAAP, excluding the current portion of long term debt. "CONSOLIDATED EXCESS CASH FLOW" means, for any period, an amount (if positive) determined for Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis equal to: (i) the sum, without duplication, of the amounts for such period of (a) Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA, plus (b) interest income received in cash, minus (ii) the sum, without duplication, of the amounts for such period of (a) voluntary and scheduled repayments of Consolidated Total Debt (excluding repayments of Revolving Loans except to the extent the Revolving Commitments are permanently reduced in connection with such repayments), plus (b) Consolidated Capital Expenditures (net of any proceeds of (x) Net Asset Sale Proceeds to the extent reinvested in accordance with Section 2.13(a), (y) Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds to the extent reinvested in accordance with Section 2.13(b), and (z) any proceeds of related financings with respect to such expenditures), plus (c) Consolidated Cash Interest Expense, plus (d) provisions for cash Taxes based on income of Company and its Subsidiaries and payable in cash with respect to such period, plus (e) any cash obligations paid in connection with impaired leases during such period. "CONSOLIDATED FIXED CHARGES" means, for any period, the sum, without duplication, of the amounts determined for Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis equal to (i) Consolidated Cash Interest Expense, (ii) scheduled payments of principal on Consolidated Total Debt, (iii) Consolidated Capital Expenditures, (iv) cash obligations identified on Schedule 1.1 paid in connection with impaired leases and (v) the portion of Taxes based on income actually paid in cash and provisions for cash income Taxes. "CONSOLIDATED INTEREST EXPENSE" means, for any period, total interest expense (including that portion attributable to Capital Leases in accordance with GAAP and capitalized interest) of Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis with respect to all outstanding Consolidated Total Debt, including all commissions, discounts and 8 other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit, but excluding, however, any amounts referred to in Section 2.10(c) payable on or before the Closing Date. "CONSOLIDATED NET INCOME" means, for any period, (i) the net income (or loss) of Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for such period taken as a single accounting period determined in conformity with GAAP, minus (ii) the sum of (a) the income (or loss) of any Person (other than a Subsidiary of Company) in which any other Person (other than Company or any of its Subsidiaries) has a joint interest, except to the extent of the amount of dividends or other distributions actually paid to Company or any of its Subsidiaries by such Person during such period, plus (b) the income (or loss) of any Person accrued prior to the date it becomes a Subsidiary of Company or is merged into or consolidated with Company or any of its Subsidiaries or that Person's assets are acquired by Company or any of its Subsidiaries, plus (c) the income of any Subsidiary of Company to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by that Subsidiary of that income is not at the time permitted by operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or governmental regulation applicable to that Subsidiary, plus (d) any after Tax gains or losses attributable to Asset Sales or returned surplus assets of any Pension Plan plus (or minus)(e) (to the extent not included in clauses (a) through (d) above) any net extraordinary losses (or any net extraordinary gains). "CONSOLIDATED TOTAL DEBT" means, as at any date of determination, the aggregate stated balance sheet amount of all Indebtedness of Company and its Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, but excluding any Indebtedness under the Atlantic Debt Documents and any Indebtedness of the type described in clause (vi) of the definition thereof. "CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION" means, as applied to any Person, any provision of any Security issued by that Person or of any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, contract, undertaking, agreement or other instrument to which that Person is a party or by which it or any of its properties is bound or to which it or any of its properties is subject. "CONTRIBUTING GUARANTORS" as defined in Section 7.2. "CONVERSION/CONTINUATION DATE" means the effective date of a continuation or conversion, as the case may be, as set forth in the applicable Conversion/Continuation Notice. "CONVERSION/CONTINUATION NOTICE" means a Conversion/Continuation Notice substantially in the form of Exhibit A-2. "COUNTERPART AGREEMENT" means a Counterpart Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit H delivered by a Credit Party pursuant to Section 5.10. "CREDIT DATE" means the date of a Credit Extension. "CREDIT DOCUMENT" means any of this Agreement, the Notes, if any, the Collateral Documents, the Fee Letter, the Subordination Agreement, the Escrow 9 Agreement, the Intercompany Note, the Atlantic Pledge, the Atlantic Side Letter and all other certificates, documents, instruments or agreements executed and delivered by a Credit Party for the benefit of any Agent or any Lender in connection herewith. "CREDIT EXTENSION" means the making, conversion or continuance of a Loan. "CREDIT PARTY" means each Person (other than any Agent or any Lender or any representative thereof) from time to time party to a Credit Document; provided that Atlantic shall not be a Credit Party for purposes of any Credit Document unless it is a party to such Credit Document. "CURRENCY AGREEMENT" means any foreign exchange contract, currency swap agreement, futures contract, option contract, synthetic or other similar agreement or arrangement, each of which is for the purpose of hedging the foreign currency risk associated with Company's and its Subsidiaries' operations and not for speculative purposes. "DEFAULT" means a condition or event that, after notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute an Event of Default. "DEFAULT EXCESS" means, with respect to any Defaulting Lender, the excess, if any, of such Defaulting Lender's Pro Rata Share of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Loans of all Lenders (calculated as if all Defaulting Lenders (other than such Defaulting Lender) had funded all of their respective Defaulted Loans) over the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Loans of such Defaulting Lender. "DEFAULT PERIOD" means, with respect to any Defaulting Lender, the period commencing on the date of the applicable Funding Default and ending on the earliest of the following dates: (i) the date on which all Commitments are cancelled or terminated and/or the Obligations are declared or become immediately due and payable, (ii) the date on which (a) the Default Excess with respect to such Defaulting Lender shall have been reduced to zero (whether by the funding by such Defaulting Lender of any Defaulted Loans of such Defaulting Lender or by the non pro rata application of any voluntary or mandatory prepayments of the Loans in accordance with the terms of Section 2.12 or Section 2.13 or by a combination thereof), and (b) such Defaulting Lender shall have delivered to Company and Administrative Agent a written reaffirmation of its intention to honor its obligations hereunder with respect to its Commitments, and (iii) the date on which Company, Administrative Agent and Requisite Lenders waive all Funding Defaults of such Defaulting Lender in writing. "DEFAULT RATE" means any interest payable pursuant to Section 2.9. "DEFAULTED LOAN" as defined in Section 2.21. "DEFAULTING LENDER" as defined in Section 2.21. 10 "DEPOSIT ACCOUNT" means a demand, time, savings, passbook or like account with a bank, savings and loan association, credit union or like organization, other than an account evidenced by a negotiable certificate of deposit. "DOLLARS" and the sign "$" mean the lawful money of the United States of America. "DOMESTIC SUBSIDIARY" means any Subsidiary organized under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia. "ELIGIBLE ASSIGNEE" means (i) in the case of the Revolving Loans or Revolving Commitments, (a) any Lender with Revolving Exposure or any Affiliate (other than a natural person) of a Lender with Revolving Exposure, (b) a commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States, or any state thereof, and having total assets in excess of $100,000,000, (c) a commercial bank organized under the laws of any other country which is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development or a political subdivision of any such country and which has total assets in excess of $100,000,000, provided that such bank is acting through a branch or agency located in the United States, and (d) a finance company, insurance company, or other financial institution or fund that is engaged in making, purchasing, or otherwise investing in commercial loans in the ordinary course of its business and having (together with its Affiliates) total assets in excess of $100,000,000, (ii) in the case of the Term Loan, (a) any Lender, any Affiliate of any Lender and any Related Fund (any two or more Related Funds being treated as a single Eligible Assignee for all purposes hereof), and (b) any commercial bank, insurance company, investment or mutual fund or other entity that is an "accredited investor" (as defined in Regulation D under the Securities Act) and which extends credit or buys loans as one of its businesses, and (iii) any other Person (other than a natural Person) approved by Company (so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing) and Administrative Agent; provided, neither (A) Company nor any Affiliate of Company nor (B) Atlantic nor any Affiliate of Atlantic shall, in any event, be an Eligible Assignee. "EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN" means any "employee benefit plan" as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA which is or was sponsored, maintained or contributed to by, or required to be contributed by, Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates. "ENVIRONMENTAL CLAIM" means any investigation, notice, notice of violation, claim, action, suit, proceeding, demand, abatement order or other order or directive (conditional or otherwise), by any Governmental Authority or any other Person, arising (i) pursuant to or in connection with any actual or alleged violation of any Environmental Law; (ii) in connection with any Hazardous Material or any actual or alleged Hazardous Materials Activity; or (iii) in connection with any actual or alleged damage, injury, threat or harm to health, safety, natural resources or the environment. "ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS" means any and all current or future foreign or domestic, federal or state (or any subdivision of either of them), statutes, ordinances, orders, rules, 11 regulations, judgments, Governmental Authorizations, or any other requirements of Governmental Authorities relating to (i) environmental matters, including those relating to any Hazardous Materials Activity; (ii) the generation, use, storage, transportation or disposal of Hazardous Materials; or (iii) occupational safety and health, industrial hygiene, land use or the protection of human, plant or animal health or welfare, in any manner applicable to Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any Facility. "ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time, and any successor thereto. "ERISA AFFILIATE" means, as applied to any Person, (i) any corporation which is a member of a controlled group of corporations within the meaning of Section 414(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of which that Person is a member; (ii) any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) which is a member of a group of trades or businesses under common control within the meaning of Section 414(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of which that Person is a member; and (iii) any member of an affiliated service group within the meaning of Section 414(m) or (o) of the Internal Revenue Code of which that Person, any corporation described in clause (i) above or any trade or business described in clause (ii) above is a member. Any former ERISA Affiliate of Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall continue to be considered an ERISA Affiliate of Company or any such Subsidiary within the meaning of this definition with respect to the period such entity was an ERISA Affiliate of Company or such Subsidiary and with respect to liabilities arising after such period for which Company or such Subsidiary could be liable under the Internal Revenue Code or ERISA. "ERISA EVENT" means (i) a "reportable event" within the meaning of Section 4043 of ERISA and the regulations issued thereunder with respect to any Pension Plan (excluding those for which the provision for 30 day notice to the PBGC has been waived by regulation); (ii) the failure to meet the minimum funding standard of Section 412 of the Internal Revenue Code with respect to any Pension Plan (whether or not waived in accordance with Section 412(d) of the Internal Revenue Code) or the failure to make by its due date a required installment under Section 412(m) of the Internal Revenue Code with respect to any Pension Plan or the failure to make any required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan; (iii) the provision of a notice of intent to terminate a Pension Plan in a distress termination described in Section 4041(c) of ERISA; (iv) the withdrawal by Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates from any Pension Plan with two or more contributing sponsors or the termination of any such Pension Plan resulting in liability to Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates pursuant to Section 4063 or 4064 of ERISA; (v) the institution by the PBGC of proceedings to terminate any Pension Plan, or the occurrence of any event or condition which might constitute grounds under ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan; (vi) the imposition of liability on Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates pursuant to Section 4062(e) or 4069 of ERISA or by reason of the application of Section 4212(c) of ERISA; (vii) the withdrawal of Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates in a complete or partial withdrawal (within the meaning of Sections 4203 and 4205 of ERISA) from any 12 Multiemployer Plan if there is any liability or potential liability therefor, or the receipt by Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates of notice from any Multiemployer Plan that it is in reorganization or insolvency pursuant to Section 4241 or 4245 of ERISA, or that it intends to terminate or has terminated under Section 4041A or 4042 of ERISA; (viii) the occurrence of an act or omission which could give rise to the imposition on Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates of fines, penalties, Taxes or related charges under Chapter 43 of the Internal Revenue Code or under Section 409, Section 502(c), (i) or (l), or Section 4071 of ERISA in respect of any Employee Benefit Plan; (ix) the assertion of a material claim (other than routine claims for benefits) against any Employee Benefit Plan or the assets thereof, or against Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates in connection with any Employee Benefit Plan; (x) receipt from the Internal Revenue Service of notice of the failure of any Pension Plan (or any other Employee Benefit Plan intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code) to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the failure of any trust forming part of any Pension Plan to qualify for exemption from taxation under Section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code; or (xi) the imposition of a Lien pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) or 412(n) of the Internal Revenue Code or pursuant to ERISA with respect to any Pension Plan. "ESCROW AGREEMENT" means an escrow agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to Administrative Agent, among Company, Administrative Agent and the escrow agent party thereto, pursuant to which $6,400,000 in proceeds of the Term Loan will be deposited for application, inter alia, to the Indebtedness and other obligations outstanding under those two unsecured promissory notes, dated June 13, 2002 issued by ClearBlue Technologies Management, Inc. to Applied Theory Corporation in an aggregate principal amount of $6,000,000, on the terms and subject to the conditions contained therein. "EVENT OF DEFAULT" means each of the conditions or events set forth in Section 8.1. "EXCHANGE ACT" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended from time to time, and any successor statute. "EXISTING INDEBTEDNESS" means (i) Indebtedness and other obligations outstanding under those certain convertible promissory notes, dated as of June 10, 2004, issued by Company to Waythere, Inc. (f/k/a Surebridge, Inc.), as amended prior to the Closing Date, and (ii) Indebtedness and other obligations outstanding under that certain Accounts Receivable Financing Agreement, dated as of May 27, 2003, as amended, by and between Silicon Valley Bank, Company and certain of its Subsidiaries. "EXTRAORDINARY RECEIPTS" means any Cash received by Company or any of its Subsidiaries not in the ordinary course of business, including, without limitation, any foreign, United States, state or local Tax refunds, pension plan reversions, judgments, proceeds of settlements or other consideration of any kind in connection with any cause of action, condemnation awards (and payments in lieu thereof), indemnity payments and 13 any purchase price adjustment received in connection with any purchase agreement and proceeds of insurance (excluding, however, any Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds, which are subject to Section 2.13(b)); except for any Cash received by Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business with respect to customer contract settlements. "FACILITY" means any real property (including all buildings, fixtures or other improvements located thereon) now, hereafter or heretofore owned, leased, operated or used by Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective predecessors or Affiliates. "FAIR SHARE CONTRIBUTION AMOUNT" as defined in Section 7.2. "FAIR SHARE" as defined in Section 7.2. "FEDERAL FUNDS EFFECTIVE RATE" means for any day, the rate per annum (expressed, as a decimal, rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next higher 1/100 of 1%) equal to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers on such day, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Business Day next succeeding such day; provided, (i) if such day is not a Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be such rate on such transactions on the next preceding Business Day as so published on the next succeeding Business Day, and (ii) if no such rate is so published on such next succeeding Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be the average (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the quotations for such day for such transactions received by Administrative Agent from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it. "FEE LETTER" means the letter agreement dated March 17, 2006 between Company and Administrative Agent. "FINANCIAL OFFICER CERTIFICATION" means, with respect to the financial statements for which such certification is required, the certification of the chief financial officer of Company that such financial statements fairly present, in all material respects, the financial condition of Company and its Subsidiaries as at the dates indicated and the results of their operations and their cash flows for the periods indicated, in each case in conformity with GAAP applied on a consistent basis, subject, in the case of interim financial statements, to changes resulting from normal audit and year end adjustments. "FINANCIAL PLAN" as defined in Section 5.1(i). "FIRST PRIORITY" means, with respect to any Lien purported to be created in any Collateral pursuant to any Collateral Document, that such Lien is the only Lien to which such Collateral is subject, other than any Permitted Lien. "FISCAL QUARTER" means a fiscal quarter of any Fiscal Year. 14 "FISCAL YEAR" means the fiscal year of Company and its Subsidiaries ending on July 31 of each calendar year. "FIXED CHARGE COVERAGE RATIO" means the ratio as of the last day of (i) the first Fiscal Quarter ending after the Closing Date of (a) Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA for such Fiscal Quarter, to (b) Consolidated Fixed Charges for such Fiscal Quarter, (ii) the second Fiscal Quarter ending after the Closing Date of (a) Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA for the two Fiscal Quarters period ending on such date, to (b) Consolidated Fixed Charges for such two Fiscal Quarters, (iii) the third Fiscal Quarter period ending after the Closing Date of (a) Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA for the three Fiscal Quarter period ending on such date, to (b) Consolidated Fixed Charges for such three Fiscal Quarter period, and (iv) any other Fiscal Quarter of (a) Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA for the four-Fiscal Quarter period then ending, to (b) Consolidated Fixed Charges for such four-Fiscal Quarter period. "FOREIGN SUBSIDIARY" means any Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Subsidiary. "FUNDING DEFAULT" as defined in Section 2.21. "FUNDING GUARANTORS" as defined in Section 7.2. "FUNDING NOTICE" means a notice substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1. "GAAP" means, subject to the limitations on the application thereof set forth in Section 1.2, United States generally accepted accounting principles in effect as of the date of determination thereof. "GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY" means any federal, state, municipal, national or other government, governmental department, commission, board, bureau, court, agency or instrumentality or political subdivision thereof or any entity or officer exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to any government or any court, in each case whether associated with a state of the United States, the United States, or a foreign entity or government. "GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORIZATION" means any permit, license, authorization, plan, directive, consent order or consent decree of or from any Governmental Authority. "GRANTOR" as defined in the Pledge and Security Agreement. "GUARANTEED OBLIGATIONS" as defined in Section 7.1. "GUARANTOR" means each Domestic Subsidiary of Company. "GUARANTY" means the guaranty of each Guarantor set forth in Section 7. "HAZARDOUS MATERIALS" means any chemical, material or substance, exposure to which is prohibited, limited or regulated by any Environmental Law or Governmental Authority or which may or could pose a hazard to the health and safety of the owners, 15 occupants or any Persons in the vicinity of any Facility or to the indoor or outdoor environment. "HAZARDOUS MATERIALS ACTIVITY" means any past, current, proposed or threatened activity, event or occurrence involving any Hazardous Materials, including the use, manufacture, possession, storage, holding, presence, existence, location, Release, threatened Release, discharge, placement, generation, transportation, processing, construction, treatment, abatement, removal, remediation, disposal, disposition or handling of any Hazardous Materials, and any corrective action or response action with respect to any of the foregoing. "HIGHEST LAWFUL RATE" means the maximum lawful interest rate, if any, that at any time or from time to time may be contracted for, charged, or received under the laws applicable to any Lender which are presently in effect or, to the extent allowed by law, under such applicable laws which may hereafter be in effect and which allow a higher maximum nonusurious interest rate than applicable laws now allow. "HISTORICAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS" means as of the Closing Date, (i) the audited financial statements of Company and its Subsidiaries, for the immediately preceding two (2) Fiscal Years, consisting of balance sheets and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholders' equity and cash flows for such Fiscal Years, and (ii) for the interim period from August 1, 2005, to the Closing Date, internally prepared, unaudited financial statements of Company and its Subsidiaries, consisting of a balance sheet and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholders' equity and cash flows for each quarterly period completed prior to forty-six (46) days before the Closing Date and for each monthly period completed prior to thirty-one (31) days prior to the Closing Date, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), certified by the chief financial officer of Company that they fairly present, in all material respects, the financial condition of Company and its Subsidiaries as at the dates indicated and the results of their operations and their cash flows for the periods indicated, subject, if applicable, to changes resulting from audit and normal year end adjustments. "INCREASED COST LENDERS" as defined in Section 2.22. "INDEBTEDNESS," as applied to any Person, means, without duplication, (i) all indebtedness for borrowed money and advances and all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments or upon which interest is customarily paid; (ii) that portion of obligations with respect to Capital Leases that is properly classified as a liability on a balance sheet in conformity with GAAP; (iii) notes payable and drafts accepted representing extensions of credit whether or not representing obligations for borrowed money; (iv) any obligation owed for all or any part of the deferred purchase price of property or services, which purchase price is (a) due more than six months from the date of incurrence of the obligation in respect thereof or (b) evidenced by a note or similar written instrument; (v) all indebtedness secured by any Lien on any property or asset owned or held by that Person regardless of whether the indebtedness secured thereby shall have been assumed by that Person or is nonrecourse to the credit of that Person; (vi) the face amount of any letter of credit issued, bankers' 16 acceptances facilities and similar credit transactions for the account of that Person or as to which that Person is otherwise liable for reimbursement of drawings or drafts; (vii) all reimbursement, payment or other obligations of such Person under any conditional sale or title retention agreement with respect to property used or acquired by such Person; (viii) the direct or indirect guaranty, endorsement (otherwise than for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business), co-making, discounting with recourse or sale with recourse by such Person of the obligation of another; (ix) any obligation of such Person the primary purpose or intent of which is to provide assurance to an obligee that the obligation of the obligor thereof will be paid or discharged, or any agreement relating thereto will be complied with, or the holders thereof will be protected (in whole or in part) against loss in respect thereof; (x) any liability of such Person for an obligation of another through any agreement (contingent or otherwise) (a) to purchase, repurchase or otherwise acquire such obligation or any security therefor, or to provide funds for the payment or discharge of such obligation (whether in the form of loans, advances, stock purchases, capital contributions or otherwise) or (b) to maintain the solvency or any balance sheet item, level of income or financial condition of another if, in the case of any agreement described under subclauses (a) or (b) of this clause (x), the primary purpose or intent thereof is as described in clause (ix) above; (xi) all obligations of such Person in respect of any exchange traded or over the counter derivative transaction, including, without limitation, any Interest Rate Agreement and Currency Agreement, whether entered into for hedging or speculative purposes; provided, in no event shall obligations under any Interest Rate Agreement and Currency Agreement be deemed "Indebtedness" for any purpose under Section 6.8; and (xii) all obligations referred to in clauses (i) through (xi) of this definition of another Person secured by (or for which the existing holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right to be secured by) a Lien upon property owned by such Person. For the avoidance of doubt, the Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any partnership or joint venture in which such Person is a general partner or joint venturer, unless such Indebtedness is expressly non-recourse to such Person. "INDEMNIFIED LIABILITIES" means, collectively, any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages (including natural resource damages), penalties, claims (including Environmental Claims), costs (including the costs of any investigation, study, sampling, testing, abatement, cleanup, removal, remediation or other response action necessary to remove, remediate, clean up or abate any Hazardous Materials Activity), expenses and disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever (including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for Indemnitees in connection with any investigative, administrative or judicial proceeding commenced or threatened by any Person, whether or not any such Indemnitee shall be designated as a party or a potential party thereto, and any fees or expenses incurred by Indemnitees in enforcing this indemnity), whether direct, indirect or consequential and whether based on any federal, state or foreign laws, statutes, rules or regulations (including securities and commercial laws, statutes, rules or regulations and Environmental Laws), on common law or equitable cause or on contract or otherwise, that may be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against any such Indemnitee, in any manner relating to or arising out of (i) this Agreement or the other Credit Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby (including the Lenders' agreement to make Credit Extensions or the use or intended use of the proceeds 17 thereof, or any enforcement of any of the Credit Documents (including any sale of, collection from, or other realization upon any of the Collateral or the enforcement of the Guaranty)); (ii) the statements contained in the commitment letter or proposal letter delivered by any Lender to Company with respect to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement; or (iii) any Environmental Claim against or any Hazardous Materials Activity relating to or arising from, directly or indirectly, any past or present activity, operation, land ownership, or practice of Company or any of its Subsidiaries. "INDEMNITEE" as defined in Section 10.3. "INDEMNITEE AGENT PARTY" as defined in Section 9.6. "INSTALLMENT" as defined in Section 2.11. "INTERCOMPANY NOTE" as defined in Section 3.1(n) "INTEREST PAYMENT DATE" means with respect to (i) any Base Rate Loan, (a) the last day of each month, commencing on the first such date to occur after the Closing Date, and (b) the final maturity date of such Loan; and (ii) any LIBOR Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan. "INTEREST PERIOD" means, in connection with a LIBOR Rate Loan, an interest period of one, two or three months, as selected by Company in the applicable Funding Notice or Conversion/Continuation Notice, (i) initially, commencing on the Credit Date or Conversion/Continuation Date thereof, as the case may be; and (ii) thereafter, commencing on the day on which the immediately preceding Interest Period expires; provided, (a) if an Interest Period would otherwise expire on a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Period shall expire on the next succeeding Business Day unless no further Business Day occurs in such month, in which case such Interest Period shall expire on the immediately preceding Business Day; (b) any Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall, subject to clauses (c) and (d), of this definition, end on the last Business Day of a calendar month; (c) no Interest Period with respect to any portion of the Term Loan shall extend beyond the Term Loan Maturity Date; and (d) no Interest Period with respect to any portion of the Revolving Loans shall extend beyond the Revolving Commitment Termination Date. "INTEREST RATE AGREEMENT" means any interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap agreement, interest rate collar agreement, interest rate hedging agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement, each of which is (i) for the purpose of hedging the interest rate exposure associated with Company's and its Subsidiaries' operations, (ii) approved by Administrative Agent, and (iii) not for speculative purposes. "INTEREST RATE DETERMINATION DATE" means, with respect to any Interest Period, the date that is two (2) Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period. 18 "INTERNAL REVENUE CODE" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended to the date hereof and from time to time hereafter, and any successor statute. "INVESTMENT" means (i) any direct or indirect purchase or other acquisition by Company or any of its Subsidiaries of, or of a beneficial interest in, any of the Securities of any other Person (other than a Guarantor); (ii) any direct or indirect redemption, retirement, purchase or other acquisition for value, by any Subsidiary of Company from any Person (other than Company or any Guarantor), of any Capital Stock of such Person; and (iii) any direct or indirect loan, advance (other than advances to employees for moving, entertainment and travel expenses, drawing accounts and similar expenditures in the ordinary course of business) or capital contributions by Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any other Person (other than Company or any Guarantor), including all indebtedness and accounts receivable from that other Person that are not current assets or did not arise from sales to that other Person in the ordinary course of business. The amount of any Investment shall be the original cost of such Investment plus the cost of all additions thereto, without any adjustments for increases or decreases in value, or write ups, write downs or write offs with respect to such Investment. "JOINT VENTURE" means a joint venture, partnership or other similar arrangement, whether in corporate, partnership or other legal form; provided, in no event shall any corporate Subsidiary of any Person be considered to be a Joint Venture to which such Person is a party. "LANDLORD PERSONAL PROPERTY COLLATERAL ACCESS AGREEMENT" means a Landlord Waiver and Consent Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit K with such amendments or modifications as may be approved by Collateral Agent. "LEASEHOLD PROPERTY" means any leasehold interest of any Credit Party as lessee under any lease of real property, other than any such leasehold interest designated from time to time by Collateral Agent in its sole discretion as not being required to be included in the Collateral. "LENDER" means each financial institution listed on the signature pages hereto as a Lender, and any other Person that becomes a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment Agreement. "LEVERAGE RATIO" means the ratio as of the last day of any Fiscal Quarter of (i) Consolidated Total Debt as of such day, to (ii) Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA for the four Fiscal Quarter period ending on such date. "LIBOR RATE LOAN" means a Loan bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBOR Rate. "LIEN" means (i) any lien, mortgage, pledge, assignment, security interest, charge or encumbrance of any kind (including any agreement to give any of the foregoing, any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, and any lease in the nature thereof) and any option, trust or other preferential arrangement having the practical effect of any of 19 the foregoing, and (ii) in the case of Securities, any purchase option, call or similar right of a third party with respect to such Securities. "LOAN" means a Term Loan or a Revolving Loan. "MARGIN STOCK" as defined in Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as in effect from time to time. "MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT" means a material adverse effect on and/or material adverse developments with respect to (i) the business operations, properties, assets, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole; (ii) a significant portion of the industry or business segment in which Company or any of its Subsidiaries operates or relies upon; (iii) the ability of any Credit Party to fully and timely perform its Obligations; (iv) the legality, validity, binding effect, or enforceability against a Credit Party of a Credit Document to which it is a party; or (v) the rights, remedies and benefits available to, or conferred upon, any Agent and any Lender or any Secured Party under any Credit Document. "MATERIAL CONTRACT" means, collectively, (i) any contract or other arrangement to which Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party (other than the Credit Documents) for which breach, nonperformance, cancellation or failure to renew could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and (ii) any agreement or instrument evidencing or governing Indebtedness in excess of $1,000,000. "MATERIAL REAL ESTATE ASSET" means (i) (a) any fee owned Real Estate Asset having a fair market value in excess of $250,000 as of the date of the acquisition thereof, and (b) all Leasehold Properties other than those with respect to which the aggregate payments under the term of the lease are less than $60,000 per annum, or (ii) any Real Estate Asset that the Requisite Lenders have determined is material to the business, operations, properties, assets, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of Company or any Subsidiary thereof, including Company. "MOODY'S" means Moody's Investor Services, Inc. "MORTGAGE" means a fee or leasehold mortgage, deed of trust or similar instrument in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent, as the same may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time. "MULTIEMPLOYER PLAN" means any Employee Benefit Plan which is a "multiemployer plan" as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA. "NAIC" means The National Association of Insurance Commissioners and any successor thereto. "NARRATIVE REPORT" means, with respect to the financial statements for which such narrative report is required, a narrative report describing the operations of Company and its Subsidiaries in the form prepared for presentation to senior management thereof for the Fiscal Quarter or Fiscal Year and for the period from the beginning of the then 20 current Fiscal Year to the end of such period to which such financial statements relate with comparison to and variances from the immediately preceding period and budget. "NET ASSET SALE PROCEEDS" means, with respect to any Asset Sale, an amount equal to: (i) Cash payments received by Company or any of its Subsidiaries from such Asset Sale, minus (ii) any bona fide direct costs incurred in connection with such Asset Sale, including (a) legal, accounting, tax, investment banking or other professional service fees (other than any such fees payable to an Affiliate of a Credit Party), (b) income or gains Taxes payable by the seller as a result of any gain recognized in connection with such Asset Sale during the Tax period the sale occurs, (c) payment of the outstanding principal amount of, premium or penalty, if any, and interest on any Indebtedness (other than the Loans) that is secured by a Lien on the stock or assets in question and that is required to be repaid under the terms thereof as a result of such Asset Sale, and (d) a reasonable reserve for any indemnification payments (fixed or contingent) attributable to seller's indemnities and representations and warranties to purchaser in respect of such Asset Sale undertaken by Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with such Asset Sale; provided that upon release of any such reserve, the amount released shall be considered Net Asset Sale Proceeds; provided, that proceeds received by Company or any of its Subsidiaries from the sublease of any asset shall only be included in the determination of Net Asset Sale Proceeds to the extent that the same exceeds all amounts required to be paid by Company or such Subsidiary in connection with its primary lease of such asset. "NET INSURANCE/CONDEMNATION PROCEEDS" means an amount equal to: (i) any Cash payments or proceeds received by Company or any of its Subsidiaries (a) under any casualty, business interruption or "key man" insurance policies in respect of any covered loss thereunder, or (b) as a result of the taking of any assets of Company or any of its Subsidiaries by any Person pursuant to the power of eminent domain, condemnation or otherwise, or pursuant to a sale of any such assets to a purchaser with such power under threat of such a taking, minus (ii) (a) any actual and reasonable costs incurred by Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the adjustment or settlement of any claims of Company or such Subsidiary in respect thereof, and (b) any bona fide direct costs incurred in connection with any sale of such assets as referred to in clause (i)(b) of this definition, including income Taxes payable as a result of any gain recognized in connection therewith. "NET WORKING CAPITAL" means, as at any date of determination, an amount determined on a consolidated basis for Company and its Subsidiaries equal to (i) the sum, without duplication of the amounts as such date of determination of (a) the net amount at such date of all "Accounts" (as such term is defined in the Pledge and Security Agreement) outstanding other than Accounts not paid within ninety (90) days following their respective due dates or original invoice dates, plus (b) the book value of all "Inventory" (as such term is defined in the Pledge and Security Agreement), minus (ii) Consolidated Current Liabilities. "NON-US LENDER" as defined in Section 2.19(c). 21 "NOTE" means a Term Loan Note or a Revolving Loan Note. "NOTICE" means a Funding Notice or a Conversion/Continuation Notice. "OBLIGATIONS" means all liabilities and obligations of every nature of each Credit Party and its Subsidiaries from time to time owed to the Agents (including former Agents), the Lenders or any of them under any Credit Document, whether for principal, interest (including interest which, but for the filing of a petition in bankruptcy with respect to such Credit Party, would have accrued on any Obligation, whether or not a claim is allowed against such Credit Party for such interest in the related bankruptcy proceeding), fees, expenses, indemnification or otherwise and whether primary, secondary, direct, indirect, contingent, fixed or otherwise (including obligations of performance) and shall include, in any event, any Supplemental Obligations. "OBLIGEE GUARANTOR" as defined in Section 7.7. "ORGANIZATIONAL DOCUMENTS" means (i) with respect to any corporation, its certificate or articles of incorporation or organization, as amended, and its by laws, as amended, (ii) with respect to any limited partnership, its certificate of limited partnership, as amended, and its partnership agreement, as amended, (iii) with respect to any general partnership, its partnership agreement, as amended, and (iv) with respect to any limited liability company, its articles of organization, as amended, and its operating agreement, as amended. In the event any term or condition of this Agreement or any other Credit Document requires any Organizational Document to be certified by a secretary of state or similar governmental official, the reference to any such "Organizational Document" shall only be to a document of a type customarily certified by such governmental official. "OTHER TAXES" means any and all present or future stamp, registration, recording, filing, transfer documentary, 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 or in connection with, any Credit Document. "PBGC" means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any successor thereto. "PENSION PLAN" means any Employee Benefit Plan, other than a Multiemployer Plan, which is subject to Section 412 of the Internal Revenue Code or Section 302 of ERISA. "PERMITTED LIENS" means each of the Liens permitted pursuant to Section 6.2. "PERSON" means and includes natural persons, corporations, limited partnerships, general partnerships, limited liability companies, limited liability partnerships, joint stock companies, Joint Ventures, associations, companies, trusts, banks, trust companies, land trusts, business trusts or other organizations, whether or not legal entities, and Governmental Authorities. 22 "PLEDGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT" means the Pledge and Security Agreement to be executed by Company and each Guarantor substantially in the form of Exhibit I, as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time. "PREPAYMENT DATE" as defined in Section 2.14(c). "PREPAYMENT PREMIUM" as defined in Section 2.12(c). "PRIME RATE" means the rate of interest quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Money Rates Section as the Prime Rate (currently defined as the base rate on corporate loans posted by at least 75% of the nation's thirty (30) largest banks), as in effect from time to time. The Prime Rate is a reference rate and does not necessarily represent the lowest or best rate actually charged to any customer. Agent or any other Lender may make commercial loans or other loans at rates of interest at, above or below the Prime Rate. "PRINCIPAL OFFICE" means, for Administrative Agent, the "Principal Office" as set forth on Appendix B, or such other office as Administrative Agent may from time to time designate in writing to Company and each Lender. "PROJECTIONS" as defined in Section 4.8. "PRO RATA SHARE" means (i) with respect to all payments, computations and other matters relating to the Term Loan of any Lender, the percentage obtained by dividing (a) the Term Loan Exposure of that Lender, by (b) the aggregate Term Loan Exposure of all Lenders and (ii) with respect to all payments, computations and other matters relating to the Revolving Commitment or Revolving Loans of any Lender, the percentage obtained by dividing (a) the Revolving Exposure of that Lender, by (b) the aggregate Revolving Exposure of all Lenders. For all other purposes with respect to each Lender, "Pro Rata Share" means the percentage obtained by dividing (A) an amount equal to the sum of the Term Loan Exposure and the Revolving Exposure of that Lender, by (B) an amount equal to the sum of the aggregate Term Loan Exposure and the aggregate Revolving Exposure of all Lenders. "REAL ESTATE ASSET" means, at any time of determination, any interest (fee, leasehold or otherwise) then owned by any Credit Party in any real property. "REFINANCING" means the repayment in full by Company of the Existing Indebtedness on the Closing Date with a portion of the Term Loan. "REGISTER" as defined in Section 2.6(b). "REGULATION D" means Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as in effect from time to time. "RELATED FUND" means, with respect to any Lender that is an investment fund, any other investment fund that invests in commercial loans and that is managed or 23 advised by the same investment advisor as such Lender or by an Affiliate of such investment advisor. "RELEASE" means any release, spill, emission, leaking, pumping, pouring, injection, escaping, deposit, disposal, discharge, dispersal, dumping, leaching or migration of any Hazardous Material into the indoor or outdoor environment (including the abandonment or disposal of any barrels, containers or other closed receptacles containing any Hazardous Material), including the movement of any Hazardous Material through the air, soil, surface water or groundwater. "REPLACEMENT LENDER" as defined in Section 2.22. "REQUISITE CLASS LENDERS" means, at any time of determination, but subject to the provisions of Section 2.21, (i) for the Class of Lenders having Term Loan Exposure, Lenders holding more than 50% of the aggregate Term Loan Exposure of all Lenders and (ii) for the Class of Lenders having Revolving Exposure, Lenders holding more than 50% of the aggregate Revolving Exposure of all Lenders. "REQUISITE LENDERS" means one or more Lenders having or holding Term Loan Exposure and/or Revolving Exposure and representing more than 50% of the sum of (i) the aggregate Term Loan Exposure of all Lenders and (ii) the aggregate Revolving Exposure of all Lenders. "RESTRICTED JUNIOR PAYMENT" means (i) any dividend or other distribution, direct or indirect, on account of any shares of any class of stock of Company or any Subsidiary now or hereafter outstanding, except a dividend payable solely in shares of that class of stock to the holders of that class; (ii) any redemption, retirement, sinking fund or similar payment, purchase or other acquisition for value, direct or indirect, of any shares of any class of stock of Company now or hereafter outstanding; (iii) any payment made to retire, or to obtain the surrender of, any outstanding warrants, options or other rights to acquire shares of any class of stock of Company now or hereafter outstanding; (iv) management or similar fees payable to Atlantic or any of its Affiliates; and (v) any payment or prepayment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, or redemption, purchase, retirement, defeasance (including in substance or legal defeasance), sinking fund or similar payment with respect to, any Subordinated Indebtedness. "REVOLVING COMMITMENT" means the commitment of a Lender to make or otherwise fund any Revolving Loan and "REVOLVING COMMITMENTS" means such commitments of all Lenders in the aggregate. The amount of each Lender's Revolving Commitment, if any, is set forth on Appendix A-2 or in the applicable Assignment Agreement, subject to any adjustment or reduction pursuant to the terms and conditions hereof. The aggregate amount of the Revolving Commitments as of the Closing Date is $3,000,000. "REVOLVING COMMITMENT PERIOD" means the period from the first Business Day following the Closing Date to but excluding the Revolving Commitment Termination Date. 24 "REVOLVING COMMITMENT TERMINATION DATE" means the earliest to occur of (i) the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date; (ii) the date the Revolving Commitments are permanently reduced to zero pursuant to Section 2.12(b) or 2.13; and (iii) the date of the termination of the Revolving Commitments pursuant to Section 8.1. "REVOLVING EXPOSURE" means, with respect to any Lender as of any date of determination, (i) prior to the termination of the Revolving Commitments, that Lender's Revolving Commitment; and (ii) after the termination of the Revolving Commitments, the sum of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Revolving Loans of that Lender. "REVOLVING LOAN" means a Loan made by a Lender to Company pursuant to Section 2.2(a). "REVOLVING LOAN NOTE" means a promissory note in the form of Exhibit B-2, as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time. "S&P" means Standard & Poor's Ratings Group, a division of The McGraw Hill Corporation. "SECURED PARTIES" has the meaning assigned to that term in the Pledge and Security Agreement. "SECURITIES" means any stock, shares, partnership interests, voting trust certificates, certificates of interest or participation in any profit sharing agreement or arrangement, options, warrants, bonds, debentures, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness, secured or unsecured, convertible, subordinated or otherwise, or in general any instruments commonly known as "securities" or any certificates of interest, shares or participations in temporary or interim certificates for the purchase or acquisition of, or any right to subscribe to, purchase or acquire, any of the foregoing. "SECURITIES ACT" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time, and any successor statute. "SILVER POINT" as defined in the preamble hereto. "SUBJECT TRANSACTION" as defined in Section 6.8(f). "SUBORDINATED INDEBTEDNESS" means Indebtedness or other obligations incurred or existing under the Atlantic Debt Documents. "SUBORDINATION AGREEMENT" means that certain Subordination Agreement between Atlantic and the Agents, substantially in the form of Exhibit J hereto, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time. "SUBSIDIARY" means, with respect to any Person, any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of stock or other ownership interests 25 entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of the Person or Persons (whether directors, managers, trustees or other Persons performing similar functions) having the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by that Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof; provided, in determining the percentage of ownership interests of any Person controlled by another Person, no ownership interest in the nature of a "qualifying share" of the former Person shall be deemed to be outstanding. "SUPPLEMENTAL LOAN" means any loan made by any Lender or any Affiliate of any Lender, in its sole discretion, to Company at any time that Atlantic is in default of its obligations under the Atlantic Term Loan Agreement in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $5,000,000 at any time outstanding. "SUPPLEMENTAL OBLIGATIONS" means all liabilities and obligations of every nature of each Credit Party and its Subsidiaries from time to time owed to the Agents (including former Agents), the Lenders or any of them under the Atlantic Side Letter or any Supplemental Loan, whether for principal, interest (including interest which, but for the filing of a petition in bankruptcy with respect to such Credit Party, would have accrued on any Obligation, whether or not a claim is allowed against such Credit Party for such interest in the related bankruptcy proceeding), fees, expenses, indemnification or otherwise and whether primary, secondary, direct, indirect, contingent, fixed or otherwise (including obligations of performance). "TAX" means any present or future tax, levy, impost, duty, assessment, charge, fee, deduction or withholding of any nature and whatever called, by whomsoever, on whomsoever and wherever imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed; provided, "Tax on the overall net income" of a Person shall be construed as a reference to a tax imposed by the jurisdiction in which that Person is organized or in which that Person's applicable principal office (and/or, in the case of a Lender, its lending office) is located or in which that Person (and/or, in the case of a Lender, its lending office) is deemed to be doing business (other than a jurisdiction in which such Person is treated as doing business as a result of its entering into any Credit Document or its participation in the transactions governed thereby) on all or part of the net income, profits or gains (whether worldwide, or only insofar as such income, profits or gains are considered to arise in or to relate to a particular jurisdiction, or otherwise) of that Person (and/or, in the case of a Lender, its applicable lending office). "TAX RELATED PERSON" means any Person (including, without limitation, a beneficial owner of an interest in a pass-through entity) whose income is realized through or determined by reference to the Agent, a Lender or Participant or any Tax Related Person of any of the foregoing. "TERM LOAN" means a Term Loan made by a Lender to Company pursuant to Section 2.1(a). 26 "TERM LOAN COMMITMENT" means the commitment of a Lender to make or otherwise fund a Term Loan and "TERM LOAN COMMITMENTS" means such commitments of all Lenders in the aggregate. The amount of each Lender's Term Loan Commitment, if any, is set forth on Appendix A-1 or in the applicable Assignment Agreement, subject to any adjustment or reduction pursuant to the terms and conditions hereof. The aggregate amount of the Term Loan Commitments as of the Closing Date is $70,000,000. "TERM LOAN EXPOSURE" means, with respect to any Lender, as of any date of determination, the outstanding principal amount of the Term Loan of such Lender; provided, at any time prior to the making of the Term Loan, the Term Loan Exposure of any Lender shall be equal to such Lender's Term Loan Commitment. "TERM LOAN MATURITY DATE" means the earlier of (i) the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date, and (ii) the date that the Term Loan shall become due and payable in full hereunder, whether by acceleration or otherwise. "TERM LOAN NOTE" means a promissory note in the form of Exhibit B-1, as it may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time. "TERMINATED LENDER" as defined in Section 2.22. "TOTAL UTILIZATION OF REVOLVING COMMITMENTS" means, as at any date of determination, the sum of the aggregate principal amount of all outstanding Revolving Loans. "TRANSACTIONS" means the transactions contemplated by the Credit Documents. "TRANSACTION COSTS" means the fees, costs and expenses payable by Company or any of Company's Subsidiaries on or before the Closing Date in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Credit Documents, to the extent approved in writing by Administrative Agent. "TYPE OF LOAN" means with respect to either the Term Loan or Revolving Loans, a Base Rate Loan or a LIBOR Rate Loan. "UCC" means the Uniform Commercial Code (or any similar or equivalent legislation) as in effect in any applicable jurisdiction. "UNADJUSTED LIBOR RATE COMPONENT" means that component of the interest costs to Company in respect of a LIBOR Rate Loan that is based upon the rate obtained pursuant to clause (i) of the definition of Adjusted LIBOR Rate. "WAIVABLE PREPAYMENT" as defined in Section 2.14(c). "WARRANT" as defined in Section 3.1(z). "WARRANT AGREEMENT" means a Warrant Purchase Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit L. 27 "WARRANT SHARES" as defined in Section 3.1(z). 1.2 ACCOUNTING TERMS. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in conformity with GAAP. Financial statements and other information required to be delivered by Company to Lenders pursuant to Section 5.1(a), 5.1(b) and 5.1(c) shall be prepared in accordance with GAAP as in effect at the time of such preparation (and delivered together with the reconciliation statements provided for in Section 5.1(e), if applicable). Subject to the foregoing, calculations in connection with the definitions, covenants and other provisions hereof shall utilize accounting principles and policies in conformity with those used to prepare the Historical Financial Statements. 1.3 INTERPRETATION, ETC. Any of the terms defined herein may, unless the context otherwise requires, be used in the singular or the plural, depending on the reference. References herein to any Section, Appendix, Schedule or Exhibit shall be to a Section, an Appendix, a Schedule or an Exhibit, as the case may be, hereof unless otherwise specifically provided. References to any agreement shall be to such agreement as amended, restated, modified or supplemented from time to time and shall include references to appendices, annexes, schedules, and exhibits thereto. The use herein of the word "include" or "including," when following any general statement, term or matter, shall not be construed to limit such statement, term or matter to the specific items or matters set forth immediately following such word or to similar items or matters, whether or not no limiting language (such as "without limitation" or "but not limited to" or words of similar import) is used with reference thereto, but rather shall be deemed to refer to all other items or matters that fall within the broadest possible scope of such general statement, term or matter. SECTION 2. LOANS 2.1 TERM LOAN. (a) Loan Commitments. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Lender severally agrees to make, on the Closing Date, a Term Loan to Company in an amount equal to such Lender's Term Loan Commitment. Company may make only one borrowing under the Term Loan Commitment which shall be on the Closing Date. Any amount borrowed under this Section 2.1(a) and subsequently repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. Subject to Sections 2.11 and 2.12, all amounts owed hereunder with respect to the Term Loan shall be paid in full no later than the Term Loan Maturity Date. Each Lender's Term Loan Commitment shall terminate immediately and without further action on the Closing Date after giving effect to the funding of such Lender's Term Loan Commitment, if any, on such date. (b) Borrowing Mechanics for the Term Loan. (i) Company shall deliver to Administrative Agent a fully executed Funding Notice no later than three (3) Business Days prior to the 28 Closing Date. Promptly upon receipt by Administrative Agent of such Funding Notice, Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the proposed borrowing. (ii) Each Lender shall make its Term Loan available to Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the Closing Date, by wire transfer of same day funds in Dollars, to the Administrative Agent's Account. Upon satisfaction or waiver of the conditions precedent specified herein, Administrative Agent shall make the proceeds of the Term Loan available to Company on the Closing Date by causing (x) $6,400,000 of the proceeds of the Term Loan to be paid to the escrow account established under the Escrow Agreement (to the extent received by Administrative Agent from Lenders) and (y) an amount of same day funds in Dollars equal to the proceeds of all such Loans received by Administrative Agent from Lenders (less the amount transferred to the escrow account described in clause (x), above) to be credited to the account of Company (account number 3300395109) at Silicon Valley Bank or to such other account as may be designated in writing to Administrative Agent by Company. 2.2 REVOLVING LOANS. (a) Revolving Commitments. During the Revolving Commitment Period, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Lender severally agrees to make Revolving Loans to Company in an aggregate amount up to but not exceeding such Lender's Revolving Commitment; provided, that after giving effect to the making of any Revolving Loans in no event shall the Total Utilization of Revolving Commitments exceed the Revolving Commitments then in effect. Amounts borrowed pursuant to this Section 2.2(a) may be repaid and reborrowed during the Revolving Commitment Period. Each Lender's Revolving Commitment shall expire on the Revolving Commitment Termination Date and all Revolving Loans and all other amounts owed hereunder with respect to the Revolving Loans and the Revolving Commitments shall be paid in full no later than such date. (b) Borrowing Mechanics for Revolving Loans. (i) Revolving Loans that are Base Rate Loans shall be in an aggregate minimum amount of $1,000,000 and integral multiples of $500,000 in excess of that amount and Revolving Loans that are LIBOR Rate Loans shall be in an aggregate minimum amount of $1,000,000 and integral multiples of $1,000,000 in excess of that amount. (ii) Whenever Company desires that Lenders make Revolving Loans, Company shall deliver to Administrative Agent a fully executed and delivered Funding Notice no later than 10:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least three (3) Business Days in advance of the proposed Credit Date in the case of a LIBOR Rate Loan, and at least one (1) Business Day in advance of the proposed Credit Date in the case of a Revolving Loan that is a Base Rate Loan. Except as otherwise provided herein, a Funding Notice for a Revolving Loan that is a 29 LIBOR Rate Loan shall be irrevocable on and after the related Interest Rate Determination Date, and Company shall be bound to make a borrowing in accordance therewith. (iii) Notice of receipt of each Funding Notice in respect of Revolving Loans, together with the amount of each Lender's Pro Rata Share thereof, if any, together with the applicable interest rate, shall be provided by Administrative Agent to each applicable Lender by telefacsimile with reasonable promptness, but (provided Administrative Agent shall have received such notice by 10:00 a.m. (New York City time)) not later than 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the same day as Administrative Agent's receipt of such Notice from Company. (iv) Each Lender shall make the amount of its Revolving Loan available to Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the applicable Credit Date by wire transfer of same day funds in Dollars, to the Administrative Agent's Account. Except as provided herein, upon satisfaction or waiver of the conditions precedent specified herein, Administrative Agent shall make the proceeds of such Revolving Loans available to Company on the applicable Credit Date by causing an amount of same day funds in Dollars equal to the proceeds of all such Revolving Loans received by Administrative Agent from Lenders to be credited to the account of Company (account number 3300395109) at Silicon Valley Bank or such other account as may be designated in writing to Administrative Agent by Company. 2.3 [RESERVED] 2.4 PRO RATA SHARES; AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS. (a) Pro Rata Shares. All Loans shall be made, and all participations purchased, by Lenders simultaneously and proportionately to their respective Pro Rata Shares, it being understood that no Lender shall be responsible for any default by any other Lender in such other Lender's obligation to make a Loan requested hereunder or purchase a participation required hereby nor shall any Term Loan Commitment or any Revolving Commitment of any Lender be increased or decreased as a result of a default by any other Lender in such other Lender's obligation to make a Loan requested hereunder or purchase a participation required hereby. (b) Availability of Funds. Unless Administrative Agent shall have been notified by any Lender prior to the applicable Credit Date that such Lender does not intend to make available to Administrative Agent the amount of such Lender's Loan requested on such Credit Date, Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such amount available to Administrative Agent on such Credit Date and Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, but shall not be obligated to, make available to Company a corresponding amount on such Credit Date. If such corresponding amount is not in fact made available to Administrative Agent by such Lender, Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover such corresponding amount on 30 demand from such Lender together with interest thereon, for each day from such Credit Date until the date such amount is paid to Administrative Agent, at the customary rate set by Administrative Agent for the correction of errors among banks for three (3) Business Days and thereafter at the Base Rate. If such Lender does not pay such corresponding amount forthwith upon Administrative Agent's demand therefor, Administrative Agent shall promptly notify Company and Company shall immediately pay such corresponding amount to Administrative Agent together with interest thereon, for each day from such Credit Date until the date such amount is paid to Administrative Agent, at the rate payable hereunder for Base Rate Loans for such Class of Loans. Nothing in this Section 2.4(b) shall be deemed to relieve any Lender from its obligation to fulfill its Term Loan Commitments and Revolving Commitments hereunder or to prejudice any rights that Company may have against any Lender as a result of any default by such Lender hereunder. 2.5 USE OF PROCEEDS. The proceeds of the Term Loan made on the Closing Date shall be applied by Company to consummate the Refinancing and to pay fees and expenses associated with the Transactions (and to pay any related transaction expenses). The proceeds of the Revolving Loans made after the Closing Date shall be applied by Company for working capital and general corporate purposes of Company and its Subsidiaries. No portion of the proceeds of any Credit Extension shall be used in any manner that causes or might cause such Credit Extension or the application of such proceeds to violate Regulation T, Regulation U or Regulation X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or any other regulation thereof or to violate the Exchange Act. 2.6 EVIDENCE OF DEBT; REGISTER; LENDERS' BOOKS AND RECORDS; NOTES. (a) Lenders' Evidence of Debt. Each Lender shall maintain on its internal records an account or accounts evidencing the Obligations of Company to such Lender, including the amounts of the Loans made by it and each repayment and prepayment in respect thereof. Any such recordation shall be conclusive and binding on Company, absent manifest error; provided, that the failure to make any such recordation, or any error in such recordation, shall not affect any Lender's Revolving Commitments or Company's Obligations in respect of any applicable Loans; and provided further, in the event of any inconsistency between the Register and any Lender's records, the recordations in the Register shall govern. (b) Register. Administrative Agent shall maintain at its Principal Office a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of Lenders and the Revolving Commitments and Loans of each Lender from time to time (the "REGISTER"). The Register shall be available for inspection by Company or any Lender at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. Administrative Agent shall record in the Register the Revolving Commitments and the Loans, and each repayment or prepayment in respect of the principal amount of the Loans, and any such recordation shall be conclusive and binding on Company and each Lender, absent manifest error; provided, failure to make any such recordation, or any error in such recordation, shall not affect any Lender's Revolving Commitments or Company's 31 Obligations in respect of any Loan. Company hereby designates the entity serving as Administrative Agent to serve as Company's agent solely for purposes of maintaining the Register as provided in this Section 2.6, and Company hereby agrees that, to the extent such entity serves in such capacity, the entity serving as Administrative Agent and its officers, directors, employees, agents and affiliates shall constitute "Indemnitees." (c) Notes. If so requested by any Lender by written notice to Company (with a copy to Administrative Agent) at least two (2) Business Days prior to the Closing Date, or at any time thereafter, Company shall execute and deliver to such Lender (and/or, if applicable and if so specified in such notice, to any Person who is an assignee of such Lender pursuant to Section 10.6) on the Closing Date (or, if such notice is delivered after the Closing Date, promptly after Company's receipt of such notice) a Note or Notes to evidence such Lender's Term Loan or Revolving Loan, as the case may be. 2.7 INTEREST ON LOANS. (a) Except as otherwise set forth herein, each Class of Loan shall bear interest on the unpaid principal amount thereof from the date made through repayment (whether by acceleration or otherwise) thereof as follows: (i) if a Base Rate Loan, at the Base Rate plus the Applicable Margin; or (ii) if a LIBOR Rate Loan, at the Adjusted LIBOR Rate plus the Applicable Margin. (b) The basis for determining the rate of interest with respect to any Loan, and the Interest Period with respect to any LIBOR Rate Loan, shall be selected by Company and notified to Administrative Agent and Lenders pursuant to the applicable Funding Notice or Conversion/Continuation Notice, as the case may be. If on any day a Loan is outstanding with respect to which a Funding Notice or Conversion/Continuation Notice has not been delivered to Administrative Agent in accordance with the terms hereof specifying the applicable basis for determining the rate of interest, then for that day such Loan shall be a Base Rate Loan. (c) In connection with LIBOR Rate Loans, there shall be no more than five (5) Interest Periods outstanding at any time. In the event Company fails to specify between a Base Rate Loan or a LIBOR Rate Loan in the applicable Funding Notice or Conversion/Continuation Notice, such Loan (if outstanding as a LIBOR Rate Loan) will be automatically converted into a Base Rate Loan on the last day of the then current Interest Period for such Loan (or if outstanding as a Base Rate Loan will remain as, or (if not then outstanding) will be made as, a Base Rate Loan). In the event Company fails to specify an Interest Period for any LIBOR Rate Loan in the applicable Funding Notice or Conversion/Continuation Notice, Company shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month. As soon as practicable after 10:00 a.m. (New York City time) on each Interest Rate Determination Date, Administrative Agent shall 32 determine (which determination shall, absent manifest error, be final, conclusive and binding upon all parties) the interest rate that shall apply to the LIBOR Rate Loans for which an interest rate is then being determined for the applicable Interest Period and shall promptly give notice thereof (in writing or by telephone confirmed in writing) to Company and each Lender. (d) Interest payable pursuant to Section 2.7(a) shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year for LIBOR Rate Loans and Base Rate Loans if the interest rate on such Base Rate Loans is calculated in reference to the Federal Funds Rates (or 365 days in the case of Base Rate Loans, the interest rate payable on which is then based on the Prime Rate), in each case for the actual number of days elapsed in the period during which it accrues. In computing interest on any Loan, the date of the making of such Loan or the first day of an Interest Period applicable to such Loan or, with respect to a Base Rate Loan being converted from a LIBOR Rate Loan, the date of conversion of such LIBOR Rate Loan to such Base Rate Loan, as the case may be, shall be included, and the date of payment of such Loan or the expiration date of an Interest Period applicable to such Loan or, with respect to a Base Rate Loan being converted to a LIBOR Rate Loan, the date of conversion of such Base Rate Loan to such LIBOR Rate Loan, as the case may be, shall be excluded; provided, if a Loan is repaid on the same day on which it is made, one day's interest shall be paid on that Loan. (e) Except as otherwise set forth herein, interest on each Loan shall be payable in arrears on and to (i) each Interest Payment Date applicable to that Loan; (ii) upon any prepayment of that Loan, whether voluntary or mandatory, to the extent accrued on the amount being prepaid; and (iii) at maturity, including final maturity. Notwithstanding any of the foregoing to the contrary, accrued interest payable on the Term Loan which (i) exceeds the Adjusted LIBOR Rate plus 5.00% per annum prior to the first anniversary of the Closing Date or (ii) exceeds the Adjusted LIBOR Rate plus 7.00% per annum after the first anniversary of the Closing Date shall to the extent of such excess, with respect to the Term Loan, be capitalized and added to the outstanding principal amount of the Term Loan as of the last day of each Fiscal Quarter. Amounts representing accrued interest which are added to the outstanding principal of Term Loan accruing such interest and shall thereafter bear interest in accordance with Section 2.7(a) and otherwise be treated as a Term Loan for purposes of this Agreement. 2.8 CONVERSION/CONTINUATION. (a) Subject to Section 2.17 and so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and then be continuing, Company shall have the option: (i) to convert at any time all or any part of any Term Loan or Revolving Loan equal to $1,000,000 and integral multiples of $500,000 in excess of that amount from one Type of Loan to another Type of Loan; provided, a LIBOR Rate Loan may only be converted on the expiration of the Interest Period applicable to such LIBOR Rate Loan unless Company shall pay all amounts due under Section 2.17 in connection with any such conversion; or 33 (ii) upon the expiration of any Interest Period applicable to any LIBOR Rate Loan, to continue all or any portion of such Loan equal to $1,000,000 and integral multiples of $500,000 in excess of that amount as a LIBOR Rate Loan. (b) Company shall deliver a Conversion/Continuation Notice to Administrative Agent no later than 10:00 a.m. (New York City time) at least one (1) Business Day in advance of the proposed conversion date (in the case of a conversion to a Base Rate Loan) and at least three (3) Business Days in advance of the proposed conversion/continuation date (in the case of a conversion to, or a continuation of, a LIBOR Rate Loan). Except as otherwise provided herein, a Conversion/Continuation Notice for conversion to, or continuation of, any LIBOR Rate Loans (or telephonic notice in lieu thereof) shall be irrevocable on and after the related Interest Rate Determination Date, and Company shall be bound to effect a conversion or continuation in accordance therewith. 2.9 DEFAULT INTEREST. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, the principal amount of all Loans outstanding and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, any interest payments on the Loans or any fees or other amounts owed hereunder, shall thereafter bear interest (including post petition interest in any proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code or other applicable bankruptcy laws) payable on demand at a rate that is 2% per annum in excess of the interest rate otherwise payable hereunder with respect to the applicable Loans (or, in the case of any such fees and other amounts, at a rate which is 2% per annum in excess of the interest rate otherwise payable hereunder for Base Rate Loans); provided, in the case of LIBOR Rate Loans, upon the expiration of the Interest Period in effect at the time any such increase in interest rate is effective such LIBOR Rate Loans shall thereupon become Base Rate Loans and shall thereafter bear interest payable upon demand at a rate which is 2% per annum in excess of the interest rate otherwise payable hereunder for Base Rate Loans. Payment or acceptance of the increased rates of interest provided for in this Section 2.9 is not a permitted alternative to timely payment and shall not constitute a waiver of any Event of Default or otherwise prejudice or limit any rights or remedies of Administrative Agent or any Lender. 2.10 FEES. (a) Company agrees to pay to Lenders having Revolving Exposure commitment fees equal to (1) the average of the daily difference between (a) the Revolving Commitments, and (b) the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Revolving Loans, times (2) one percent (1.00 %) per annum. All fees referred to in this Section 2.10(a) shall be paid to Administrative Agent's Account, and upon receipt, Administrative Agent shall promptly distribute to each Lender its Pro Rata Share thereof. (b) All fees referred to in Section 2.10(a) shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed and shall be payable quarterly in arrears on March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 of each year 34 during the Revolving Commitment Period, commencing on the first such date to occur after the Closing Date, and on the Revolving Commitment Termination Date. (c) In addition to any of the foregoing fees, Company agrees to pay to Agents such other fees in the amounts and at the times separately agreed upon, including, but not limited to, fees set forth in the Fee Letter. 2.11 SCHEDULED PAYMENTS/COMMITMENT REDUCTIONS. The principal amounts of the Term Loan shall be repaid in consecutive quarterly installments (each, an "INSTALLMENT") in the aggregate amounts set forth below on the last day of each calendar quarter, commencing April 30, 2007: TERM LOAN AMORTIZATION DATE: INSTALLMENTS - ------------------ ------------ April 30, 2007 $ 500,000 July 31, 2007 $1,200,000 October 31, 2007 $1,200,000 January 31, 2008 $1,400,000 April 30, 2008 $1,600,000 July 31, 2008 $1,700,000 October 31, 2008 $2,300,000 January 31, 2009 $2,300,000 April 30, 2009 $2,300,000 July 31, 2009 $2,300,000 October 31, 2009 $2,900,000 January 31, 2010 $3,000,000 April 30, 2010 $3,000,000 July 31, 2010 $3,000,000 October 31, 2010 $3,100,000 January 31, 2011 $3,200,000
Notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) such Installments shall be reduced in connection with any voluntary or mandatory prepayments of the Term Loan, as the case may be, in accordance with Sections 2.12 and 2.13, as applicable; and (y) the Term Loan, together with all other amounts owed hereunder with respect thereto, shall, in any event, be paid in full no later than the Term Loan Maturity Date. 35 2.12 VOLUNTARY PREPAYMENTS/COMMITMENT REDUCTIONS. (a) Voluntary Prepayments. (i) Any time and from time to time: (1) with respect to Base Rate Loans, Company may prepay any such Loans on any Business Day in whole or in part, in an aggregate minimum amount of $1,000,000 and integral multiples of $500,000 in excess of that amount; and (2) with respect to LIBOR Rate Loans, Company may prepay any such Loans on any Business Day in whole or in part (together with any amounts due pursuant to Section 2.17(c)) in an aggregate minimum amount of $1,000,000 and integral multiples of $500,000 in excess of that amount. (ii) All such prepayments shall be made: (1) upon not less than one (1) Business Day's prior written notice in the case of Base Rate Loans; and (2) upon not less than three (3) Business Days' prior written notice in the case of LIBOR Rate Loans, in each case given to Administrative Agent by 12:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the date required. Upon the giving of any such notice, the principal amount of the Loans specified in such notice shall become due and payable on the prepayment date specified therein. Any such voluntary prepayment shall be applied as specified in Section 2.14(a) with respect to Revolving Loans and Section 2.14(b) with respect to the Term Loan. (b) Voluntary Commitment Reductions. (i) At any time after the Term Loan has been repaid in full, Company may, from time to time and upon not less than three (3) Business Days' prior written notice, terminate in whole or permanently reduce in part the Revolving Commitments in an amount up to the amount by which the Revolving Commitments exceed the Total Utilization of Revolving Commitments at the time of such proposed termination or reduction; provided, any such partial reduction of the Revolving Commitments shall be in an aggregate minimum amount of $500,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess of that amount. (ii) Company's notice to Administrative Agent shall designate the date (which shall be a Business Day) of such termination or reduction and the amount of any partial reduction, and such termination or reduction of the Revolving Commitments shall be effective on the date specified in Company's notice and shall reduce the Revolving Commitment of each Lender proportionately to its Pro Rata Share thereof. 36 (c) Call Protection. If Company prepays, for any reason, all or any part of the principal balance of any Term Loan, Company shall pay to Administrative Agent, for the benefit of all Lenders entitled to a portion of such prepayment a prepayment premium (the "PREPAYMENT PREMIUM") on the amount so prepaid as follows: PREPAYMENT PREMIUM AS A PERCENTAGE DATE OF PREPAYMENT OF THE AMOUNT SO PREPAID - ----------------------------------- ---------------------------------- On or prior to first anniversary of 8% the Closing Date After the first anniversary of the 4% Closing Date but on or prior to the second anniversary After the second anniversary of the 3% Closing Date but on or prior to the third anniversary After the third anniversary of the 2% Closing Date but on or prior to the fourth anniversary After the fourth anniversary of the 1% Closing Date
provided, however, that (1) the Prepayment Premium shall be reduced by one-half (1/2) for the first $5,000,000 of mandatory prepayments required under Section 2.13(c) and (2) the Prepayment Premium shall be zero for (i) mandatory prepayments required under Sections 2.13(b), (e), (f), and (h) and (ii) all payments made during the three months prior to the Term Loan Maturity Date. 2.13 MANDATORY PREPAYMENTS/COMMITMENT REDUCTIONS. (a) Asset Sales. No later than the first Business Day following the date of receipt by Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any Net Asset Sale Proceeds, Company shall prepay the Loans and/or the Revolving Commitments shall be permanently reduced as set forth in Section 2.14(b) in an aggregate amount equal to 100% of such Net Asset Sale Proceeds; provided, (i) so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, and (ii) to the extent that aggregate Net Asset Sale Proceeds from the Closing Date through the applicable date of determination do not exceed $250,000, Company shall have the option, directly or through one or more of its Subsidiaries, to invest Net Asset Sale Proceeds within one hundred eighty (180) days of receipt thereof in long term productive assets of the general type used in the 37 business of Company and its Subsidiaries; provided further, pending any such investment all such Net Asset Sale Proceeds shall be applied to prepay Revolving Loans to the extent outstanding (without a reduction in Revolving Commitments). (b) Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds. No later than the first Business Day following the date of receipt by Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or Administrative Agent as loss payee, of any Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds, Company shall prepay the Loans and/or the Revolving Commitments shall be permanently reduced as set forth in Section 2.14(b) in an aggregate amount equal to 100% of such Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds; provided, (i) so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, and (ii) to the extent that aggregate Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds from the Closing Date through the applicable date of determination do not exceed $250,000, Company shall have the option, directly or through one or more of its Subsidiaries to invest such Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds within one hundred eighty (180) days of receipt thereof in long term productive assets of the general type used in the business of Company and its Subsidiaries, which investment may include the repair, restoration or replacement of the applicable assets thereof; provided further, pending any such investment all such Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds, as the case may be, shall be applied to prepay Revolving Loans to the extent outstanding (without a reduction in Revolving Commitments). (c) Issuance of Equity Securities. On the date of receipt by Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any Cash proceeds from a capital contribution to Company or the issuance of any Capital Stock of Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than Capital Stock issued (i) pursuant to any employee stock or stock option compensation plan, or (ii) for purposes approved in writing by Administrative Agent), Company shall prepay the Loans and/or the Revolving Commitments shall be permanently reduced as set forth in Section 2.14(b) in an aggregate amount equal to 50% of such proceeds in excess of $10,000,000, net of underwriting discounts and commissions and other reasonable costs and expenses associated therewith, including reasonable legal fees and expenses. (d) Issuance of Debt. On the date of receipt by Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any Cash proceeds from the incurrence of any Indebtedness of Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than with respect to any Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to Section 6.1), Company shall prepay the Loans and/or the Revolving Commitments shall be permanently reduced as set forth in Section 2.14(b) in an aggregate amount equal to 100% of such proceeds, net of underwriting discounts and commissions and other reasonable costs and expenses associated therewith, including reasonable legal fees and expenses. (e) Consolidated Excess Cash Flow. In the event that there shall be Consolidated Excess Cash Flow for any Fiscal Year (commencing with Fiscal Year ending on July 31, 2006), Company shall, no later than ninety (90) days after the end of such Fiscal Year, prepay the Loans and/or the Revolving Commitments shall be permanently reduced as set forth in Section 2.14(b) in an aggregate amount equal to 50% 38 of such Consolidated Excess Cash Flow. Any amounts prepaid pursuant to this Section 2.13(e) with respect to any Fiscal Year in excess of 50% of Consolidated Excess Cash Flow shall be treated as voluntary prepayments made pursuant to Section 2.12(a). (f) Extraordinary Receipts. No later than the first Business Day following the date of receipt by Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any Extraordinary Receipts, Company shall prepay the Loans and/or the Revolving Commitments shall be permanently reduced as set forth in Section 2.14(b) in an aggregate amount equal to such Extraordinary Receipts. (g) Revolving Loans. Company shall from time to time prepay the Revolving Loans to the extent necessary so that the Total Utilization of Revolving Commitments shall not at any time exceed the Revolving Commitments then in effect. (h) Prepayment Certificate. Concurrently with any prepayment of the Loans and/or reduction of the Revolving Commitments pursuant to Sections 2.13(a) through 2.13(f), Company shall deliver to Administrative Agent a certificate of an Authorized Officer demonstrating the calculation of the amount of the applicable net proceeds or Consolidated Excess Cash Flow, as the case may be. In the event that Company shall subsequently determine that the actual amount received exceeded the amount set forth in such certificate, Company shall promptly make an additional prepayment of the Loans and/or the Revolving Commitments shall be permanently reduced in an amount equal to such excess, and Company shall concurrently therewith deliver to Administrative Agent a certificate of an Authorized Officer demonstrating the derivation of such excess. 2.14 APPLICATION OF PREPAYMENTS/REDUCTIONS. (a) Application of Voluntary Prepayments of Revolving Loans. Any prepayment of any Revolving Loan pursuant to Section 2.12 shall be applied to repay outstanding Revolving Loans to the full extent thereof. No voluntary prepayment of Revolving Loans pursuant to Section 2.12 shall permanently reduce the Revolving Commitments. (b) Application of Prepayments by Type of Loans. Any voluntary prepayments of the Term Loan pursuant to Section 2.12 and any mandatory prepayment of any Loan pursuant to Section 2.13 shall be applied as follows: first, to the payment of all expenses and fees to the full extent thereof; second, to the payment of any accrued interest at the Default Rate, if any; third, to the payment of the Prepayment Premium, if any, on any Loan; 39 fourth, to the payment of any accrued interest (other than Default Rate interest); fifth, except in connection with any Waivable Prepayment in Section 2.14(c), to prepay the Term Loan, which prepayments shall be applied on a pro rata basis to reduce the remaining scheduled Installments of principal of the Term Loan; and sixth, to prepay the Revolving Loans to the full extent thereof and to further permanently reduce the Revolving Commitments by the amount of such prepayment. (c) Waivable of Certain Prepayments. Anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, in the event Company is required to make any mandatory prepayment (a "WAIVABLE PREPAYMENT") of the Term Loan, not less than three (3) Business Days prior to the date (the "PREPAYMENT DATE") on which Company is required to make such Waivable Prepayment, Company shall notify Administrative Agent of the amount of such prepayment, and Administrative Agent will promptly thereafter notify each Lender holding an outstanding Term Loan of the amount of such Lender's Pro Rata Share of such Waivable Prepayment and such Lender's option to refuse such amount. Each such Lender may exercise such option by giving written notice to Company and Administrative Agent of its election to do so on or before the first Business Day prior to the Prepayment Date (it being understood that any Lender which does not notify Company and Administrative Agent of its election to exercise such option on or before the first Business Day prior to the Prepayment Date shall be deemed to have elected, as of such date, not to exercise such option). On the Prepayment Date, Company shall pay to Administrative Agent the amount of the Waivable Prepayment, which amount shall be applied (i) in an amount equal to that portion of the Waivable Prepayment payable to those Lenders that have elected not to exercise such option, to prepay the Term Loan of such Lenders (which prepayment shall be applied to the scheduled Installments of principal of the Term Loan in accordance with Section 2.14(b)), and (ii) to the extent of any excess, to Company for working capital and general corporate purposes. (d) Application of Prepayments of Loans to Base Rate Loans and LIBOR Rate Loans. Considering each Class of Loans being prepaid separately, any prepayment thereof shall be applied first to Base Rate Loans, if any, to the full extent thereof before application to LIBOR Rate Loans, in each case in a manner which minimizes the amount of any payments required to be made by Company pursuant to Section 2.17(c). 2.15 GENERAL PROVISIONS REGARDING PAYMENTS. (a) All payments by Company of principal, interest, fees and other Obligations shall be made in Dollars in same day funds, without defense, recoupment, setoff or counterclaim, free of any restriction or condition, and paid to Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the date due at 40 Administrative Agent's Account for the account of Lenders; funds received by Administrative Agent after that time on such due date shall be deemed to have been paid by Company on the next succeeding Business Day. (b) All payments in respect of the principal amount of any Loan (other than voluntary prepayments of Revolving Loans) shall be accompanied by payment of accrued interest on the principal amount being repaid or prepaid. (c) Administrative Agent shall promptly distribute to each Lender at such address as such Lender shall indicate in writing, such Lender's applicable Pro Rata Share of all payments and prepayments of principal and interest due hereunder, together with all other amounts due thereto, including, without limitation, all fees payable with respect thereto, to the extent received by Administrative Agent. (d) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions hereof, if any Conversion/ Continuation Notice is withdrawn as to any Affected Lender or if any Affected Lender makes Base Rate Loans in lieu of its Pro Rata Share of any LIBOR Rate Loans, Administrative Agent shall give effect thereto in apportioning payments received thereafter. (e) Subject to the provisos set forth in the definition of "Interest Period," whenever any payment to be made hereunder shall be stated to be due on a day that is not a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day and such extension of time shall be included in the computation of the payment of interest hereunder or of the commitment fees hereunder. (f) Administrative Agent shall deem any payment by or on behalf of Company hereunder that is not made in same day funds prior to 12:00 p.m. (New York City time) to be a non-conforming payment. Any such payment shall not be deemed to have been received by Administrative Agent until the later of (i) the time such funds become available funds, and (ii) the applicable next Business Day. Administrative Agent shall give prompt telephonic notice to Company and each applicable Lender (confirmed in writing) if any payment is non-conforming. Any non-conforming payment may constitute or become a Default or Event of Default in accordance with the terms of Section 8.1(a). Interest shall continue to accrue on any principal as to which a non-conforming payment is made until such funds become available funds (but in no event less than the period from the date of such payment to the next succeeding applicable Business Day) at the Default Rate determined pursuant to Section 2.9 from the date such amount was due and payable until the date such amount is paid in full. (g) If an Event of Default shall have occurred and not otherwise been waived, and the maturity of the Obligations shall have been accelerated pursuant to Section 8.1, all payments or proceeds received by Agents hereunder in respect of any of the Obligations, shall be applied in accordance with the application arrangements described in Section 7.2 of the Pledge and Security Agreement. 41 2.16 RATABLE SHARING. Lenders hereby agree among themselves that, except as otherwise provided in the Collateral Documents with respect to amounts realized from the exercise of rights with respect to Liens on the Collateral, if any of them shall, whether by voluntary payment (other than a voluntary prepayment of Loans made and applied in accordance with the terms hereof), through the exercise of any right of set off or banker's lien, by counterclaim or cross action or by the enforcement of any right under the Credit Documents or otherwise, or as adequate protection of a deposit treated as cash collateral under the Bankruptcy Code, receive payment or reduction of a proportion of the aggregate amount of principal, interest, fees and other amounts then due and owing to such Lender hereunder or under the other Credit Documents (collectively, the "AGGREGATE AMOUNTS DUE" to such Lender) which is greater than the proportion received by any other Lender in respect of the Aggregate Amounts Due to such other Lender, then the Lender receiving such proportionately greater payment shall (a) notify Administrative Agent and each other Lender of the receipt of such payment and (b) apply a portion of such payment to purchase participations (which it shall be deemed to have purchased from each seller of a participation simultaneously upon the receipt by such seller of its portion of such payment) in the Aggregate Amounts Due to the other Lenders so that all such recoveries of Aggregate Amounts Due shall be shared by all Lenders in proportion to the Aggregate Amounts Due to them; provided, if all or part of such proportionately greater payment received by such purchasing Lender is thereafter recovered from such Lender upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of Company or otherwise, those purchases shall be rescinded and the purchase prices paid for such participations shall be returned to such purchasing Lender ratably to the extent of such recovery, but without interest. Company expressly consents to the foregoing arrangement and agrees that any holder of a participation so purchased may exercise any and all rights of banker's lien, set off or counterclaim with respect to any and all monies owing by Company to that holder with respect thereto as fully as if that holder were owed the amount of the participation held by that holder. 2.17 MAKING OR MAINTAINING LIBOR RATE LOANS. (a) Inability to Determine Applicable Interest Rate. In the event that Administrative Agent shall have determined (which determination shall be final and conclusive and binding upon all parties hereto), on any Interest Rate Determination Date with respect to any LIBOR Rate Loans, that by reason of circumstances affecting the London interbank market adequate and fair means do not exist for ascertaining the interest rate applicable to such LIBOR Rate Loans on the basis provided for in the definition of Adjusted LIBOR Rate, Administrative Agent shall on such date give notice (by telefacsimile or by telephone confirmed in writing) to Company and each Lender of such determination, whereupon (i) no Loans may be made as, or converted to, LIBOR Rate Loans until such time as Administrative Agent notifies Company and Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, and (ii) any Funding Notice or Conversion/Continuation Notice given by Company with respect to the Loans in respect of which such determination was made shall be deemed to be rescinded by Company. 42 (b) Illegality or Impracticability of LIBOR Rate Loans. In the event that on any date any Lender shall have determined (which determination shall be final and conclusive and binding upon all parties hereto but shall be made only after consultation with Company and Administrative Agent) that the making, maintaining or continuation of its LIBOR Rate Loans (i) has become unlawful as a result of compliance by such Lender in good faith with any law, treaty, governmental rule, regulation, guideline or order (or would conflict with any such treaty, governmental rule, regulation, guideline or order not having the force of law even though the failure to comply therewith would not be unlawful), or (ii) has become impracticable, as a result of contingencies occurring after the date hereof which materially and adversely affect the London interbank market or the position of such Lender in that market, then, and in any such event, such Lender shall be an "AFFECTED LENDER" and it shall on that day give notice (by telefacsimile or by telephone confirmed in writing) to Company and Administrative Agent of such determination (which notice Administrative Agent shall promptly transmit to each other Lender). Thereafter (1) the obligation of the Affected Lender to make Loans as, or to convert Loans to, LIBOR Rate Loans shall be suspended until such notice shall be withdrawn by the Affected Lender, (2) to the extent such determination by the Affected Lender relates to a LIBOR Rate Loan then being requested by Company pursuant to a Funding Notice or a Conversion/Continuation Notice, the Affected Lender shall make such Loan as (or continue such Loan as or convert such Loan to, as the case may be) a Base Rate Loan, (3) the Affected Lender's obligation to maintain its outstanding LIBOR Rate Loans (the "AFFECTED LOANS") shall be terminated at the earlier to occur of the expiration of the Interest Period then in effect with respect to the Affected Loans or when required by law, and (4) the Affected Loans shall automatically convert into Base Rate Loans on the date of such termination. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent a determination by an Affected Lender as described above relates to a LIBOR Rate Loan then being requested by Company pursuant to a Funding Notice or a Conversion/Continuation Notice, Company shall have the option, subject to the provisions of Section 2.17(c), to rescind such Funding Notice or Conversion/Continuation Notice as to all Lenders by giving notice (by telefacsimile or by telephone confirmed in writing) to Administrative Agent of such rescission on the date on which the Affected Lender gives notice of its determination as described above (which notice of rescission Administrative Agent shall promptly transmit to each other Lender). Except as provided in the immediately preceding sentence, nothing in this Section 2.17(b) shall affect the obligation of any Lender other than an Affected Lender to make or maintain Loans as, or to convert Loans to, LIBOR Rate Loans in accordance with the terms hereof. (c) Compensation for Breakage or Non-Commencement of Interest Periods. Company shall compensate each Lender, upon written request by such Lender (which request shall set forth the basis for requesting such amounts), for all reasonable losses, expenses and liabilities (including any interest paid or calculated to be due and payable by such Lender to Lenders of funds borrowed by it to make or carry its LIBOR Rate Loans and any loss, expense or liability sustained by such Lender in connection with the liquidation or re employment of such funds but excluding loss of anticipated profits) which such Lender may sustain: (i) if for any reason (other than a default by such Lender) a borrowing of any LIBOR Rate Loan does not occur on a date 43 specified therefor in a Funding Notice or a telephonic request for borrowing, or a conversion to or continuation of any LIBOR Rate Loan does not occur on a date specified therefor in a Conversion/Continuation Notice or a telephonic request for conversion or continuation; (ii) if any prepayment or other principal payment of, or any conversion of, any of its LIBOR Rate Loans occurs on any day other than the last day of an Interest Period applicable to that Loan (whether voluntary, mandatory, automatic, by reason of acceleration, or otherwise); or (iii) if any prepayment of any of its LIBOR Rate Loans is not made on any date specified in a notice of prepayment given by Company. (d) Booking of LIBOR Rate Loans. Any Lender may make, carry or transfer LIBOR Rate Loans at, to, or for the account of any of its branch offices or the office of an Affiliate of such Lender. (e) Assumptions Concerning Funding of LIBOR Rate Loans. Calculation of all amounts payable to a Lender under this Section 2.17 and under Section 2.18 shall be made as though such Lender had actually funded each of its relevant LIBOR Rate Loans through the purchase of a LIBOR deposit bearing interest at the rate obtained pursuant to clause (i) of the definition of Adjusted LIBOR Rate in an amount equal to the amount of such LIBOR Rate Loan and having a maturity comparable to the relevant Interest Period and through the transfer of such LIBOR deposit from an offshore office of such Lender to a domestic office of such Lender in the United States of America; provided, however, each Lender may fund each of its LIBOR Rate Loans in any manner it sees fit and the foregoing assumptions shall be utilized only for the purposes of calculating amounts payable under this Section 2.17 and under Section 2.18. 2.18 INCREASED COSTS; CAPITAL ADEQUACY. (a) Compensation For Increased Costs and Taxes. Subject to the provisions of Section 2.19 (which shall be controlling with respect to the matters covered thereby), in the event that any Lender shall determine (which determination shall, absent manifest error, be final and conclusive and binding upon all parties hereto) that any law, treaty or governmental rule, regulation or order, or any change therein or in the interpretation, administration or application thereof (including the introduction of any new law, treaty or governmental rule, regulation or order), or any determination of a court or governmental authority, in each case that becomes effective after the date hereof, or compliance by such Lender with any guideline, request or directive issued or made after the date hereof by any central bank or other governmental or quasi governmental authority (whether or not having the force of law): (i) subjects such Lender (or its applicable lending office) to any additional Tax (other than any Tax on the overall net income of such Lender) with respect to this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents or any of its obligations hereunder or thereunder or any payments to such Lender (or its applicable lending office) of principal, interest, fees or any other amount payable hereunder; (ii) imposes, modifies or holds applicable any reserve (including any marginal, emergency, supplemental, special or other reserve), special deposit, compulsory loan, FDIC insurance or similar requirement against assets held by, or deposits or other liabilities in or for the account of, or advances or loans by, or other credit extended by, or any other acquisition of funds by, any office of such Lender (other 44 than any such reserve or other requirements with respect to LIBOR Rate Loans that are reflected in the definition of Adjusted LIBOR Rate); or (iii) imposes any other condition (other than with respect to a Tax matter) on or affecting such Lender (or its applicable lending office) or its obligations hereunder or the London interbank market; and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to such Lender of agreeing to make, making or maintaining Loans hereunder or to reduce any amount received or receivable by such Lender (or its applicable lending office) with respect thereto; then, in any such case, Company shall promptly pay to such Lender, upon receipt of the statement referred to in the next sentence, such additional amount or amounts (in the form of an increased rate of, or a different method of calculating, interest or otherwise as such Lender in its sole discretion shall determine) as may be necessary to compensate such Lender for any such increased cost or reduction in amounts received or receivable hereunder. Such Lender shall deliver to Company (with a copy to Administrative Agent) a written statement, setting forth in reasonable detail the basis for calculating the additional amounts owed to such Lender under this Section 2.18(a), which statement shall be conclusive and binding upon all parties hereto absent manifest error. (b) Capital Adequacy Adjustment. In the event that any Lender shall have determined that the adoption, effectiveness, phase in or applicability after the Closing Date of any law, rule or regulation (or any provision thereof) regarding capital adequacy, or any change therein or in the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority, central bank or comparable agency charged with the interpretation or administration thereof, or compliance by any Lender (or its applicable lending office) with any guideline, request or directive regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having the force of law) of any such Governmental Authority, central bank or comparable agency, has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on the capital of such Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender as a consequence of, or with reference to, such Lender's Loans or Revolving Commitments, or participations therein or other obligations hereunder with respect to the Loans to a level below that which such Lender or such controlling corporation could have achieved but for such adoption, effectiveness, phase in, applicability, change or compliance (taking into consideration the policies of such Lender or such controlling corporation with regard to capital adequacy), then from time to time, within five (5) Business Days after receipt by Company from such Lender of the statement referred to in the next sentence, Company shall pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such controlling corporation on an after-tax basis for such reduction. Such Lender shall deliver to Company (with a copy to Administrative Agent) a written statement, setting forth in reasonable detail the basis for calculating the additional amounts owed to Lender under this Section 2.18(b), which statement shall be conclusive and binding upon all parties hereto absent manifest error. 2.19 TAXES; WITHHOLDING, ETC. (a) Payments to Be Free and Clear. All sums payable by any Credit Party hereunder and under the other Credit Documents shall (except to the extent required by law) be paid free and clear of, and without any deduction or withholding on account of, any Tax imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by or within the 45 United States of America or any political subdivision in or of the United States of America or any other jurisdiction from or to which a payment is made by or on behalf of any Credit Party or by any federation or organization of which the United States of America or any such jurisdiction is a member at the time of payment. (b) Withholding of Taxes. If any Credit Party or any other Person is required by law to make any deduction or withholding on account of any Tax from any sum paid or payable under any of the Credit Documents: (i) Company shall notify Administrative Agent of any such requirement or any change in any such requirement as soon as Company becomes aware of it; (ii) Company shall pay any such Tax before the date on which penalties attach thereto, such payment to be made (if the liability to pay is imposed on any Credit Party) for its own account or (if that liability is imposed on Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be) on behalf of and in the name of Administrative Agent or such Lender; (iii) the sum payable by such Credit Party in respect of which the relevant deduction, withholding or payment, is required shall be increased to the extent necessary to ensure that, after the making of that deduction, withholding payment of all Taxes, Administrative Agent or such Lender (including for these purposes as Issuing Bank, as the case may be, and each of their Tax Related Persons receives on the due date and contains a net sum equal to what it would have received and retained had no such deduction, withholding or payment been required or made; and (iv) within thirty (30) days after making any such deduction or withholding, and within thirty (30) days after the due date of payment of any Tax which it is required by clause (ii) above to pay, Company shall deliver to Administrative Agent evidence satisfactory to the other affected parties of such deduction, withholding and payment and of the remittance thereof to the relevant taxing or other authority; provided, no such additional amount shall be required to be paid to any Lender under clause (iii) above except to the extent that any change after the date hereof (in the case of each Lender listed on the signature pages hereof on the Closing Date) or after the effective date of the Assignment Agreement pursuant to which such Lender became a Lender (in the case of each other Lender) in any such requirement for a deduction, withholding or payment as is mentioned therein shall result in an increase in the rate of such deduction, withholding or payment from that in effect at the date hereof or at the date of such Assignment Agreement in respect of payments to such Lender. (c) Other Taxes. In addition, the Credit Parties shall pay all Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authorities in accordance with applicable law. The Credit Parties shall deliver to Administrative Agent official receipts or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent in respect of any Taxes or Other Taxes payable hereunder promptly after payment of such Taxes or Other Taxes. (d) The Credit Parties shall indemnify each Agent and each Lender (including for these purposes an Issuing Bank), within ten days after written demand therefor, for the full amount of any Taxes paid or incurred by such Agent or such Lender or their respective Tax Related Persons, as the case may be, relating to, arising out of, or in connection with any Credit Document or any payment or transaction contemplated hereby or thereby, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally 46 imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority; provided, however, that the Credit Parties shall not be required to indemnify the Agents, Lenders and Participants for any Taxes that would be excluded from a gross-up under Section 2.19(b) or to the extent such Taxes are covered by Sections 2.19(b) or (c). Such indemnification shall be made on an after-Tax basis, such that after all required deductions and payments of all Taxes (including income Taxes and deductions applicable to amounts payable under this Section 2.19(d)) and payment of all reasonable expenses, the Agents, the Lenders and each of their respective Tax Related Persons receives and retains an amount equal to the sum it would have received and retained had it not paid or incurred or been subject to such Taxes. A certificate from the relevant Lender or Agent, setting forth in reasonable detail the basis and calculation of such Taxes shall be conclusive, absent manifest error. (e) Evidence of Exemption From U.S. Withholding Tax. Each Lender that is not a United States Person (as such term is defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Internal Revenue Code) for U.S. federal income Tax purposes (a "NON-US LENDER") shall deliver to Administrative Agent for transmission to Company, on or prior to the Closing Date (in the case of each Lender listed on the signature pages hereof on the Closing Date) or on or prior to the date of the Assignment Agreement pursuant to which it becomes a Lender (in the case of each other Lender), and at such other times as may be necessary in the determination of Company or Administrative Agent (each in the reasonable exercise of its discretion), (i) two original copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN, W-8IMX or W-8ECI (or any successor forms), properly completed and duly executed by such Lender, and such other documentation required under the Internal Revenue Code and reasonably requested by Company 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 any of the Credit Documents or is subject to deduction or withholding at a reduced rate, or (ii) if such Lender is not a "bank" or other Person described in Section 881(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and cannot deliver Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI pursuant to clause (i) above, a Certificate Regarding Non Bank Status together with two original copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN (or any successor form), properly completed and duly executed by such Lender, and such other documentation required under the Internal Revenue Code and reasonably requested by Company 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 any of the Credit Documents. Each Lender required to deliver any forms, certificates or other evidence with respect to United States federal income Tax withholding matters pursuant to this Section 2.19(c) hereby agrees, from time to time after the initial delivery by such Lender of such forms, certificates or other evidence, 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 Administrative Agent for transmission to Company two new original copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN, W-8IMX or W-8ECI, or a Certificate Regarding Non Bank Status and two original copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN (or any successor form), as the case may be, properly completed and duly executed by such Lender, and such other documentation required under the Internal Revenue Code and reasonably requested by Company to confirm or establish that 47 such Lender is not subject to deduction or withholding of United States federal income Tax with respect to payments to such Lender under the Credit Documents or is subject to deduction or withholding at a reduced rate, or notify Administrative Agent and Company of its inability to deliver any such forms, certificates or other evidence. Company shall not be required to pay any additional amount to any Non-US Lender under Section 2.19(b)(iii) if such Lender shall have failed to deliver the forms, certificates or other evidence referred to in the second sentence of this Section 2.19(c); that it is legally entitled to deliver, provided, if such Lender shall have satisfied the requirements of the first sentence of this Section 2.19(c) on the Closing Date or on the date of the Assignment Agreement pursuant to which it became a Lender, as applicable, nothing in this last sentence of Section 2.19(c) shall relieve Company of its obligation to pay any additional amounts pursuant this Section 2.19 in the event that, as a result of any change in any applicable law, treaty or governmental rule, regulation or order, or any change in the interpretation, administration or application thereof, such Lender is no longer properly entitled to deliver forms, certificates or other evidence at a subsequent date establishing the fact that such Lender is not subject to withholding as described herein. Nothing in this Section 2.19 shall be construed to require a Lender, Agent or Participant to provide any forms or documentation that it is not legally entitled to provide. 2.20 OBLIGATION TO MITIGATE. Each Lender agrees that, as promptly as practicable after the officer of such Lender responsible for administering its Loans becomes aware of the occurrence of an event or the existence of a condition that would cause such Lender to become an Affected Lender or that would entitle such Lender to receive payments under Section 2.17, 2.18 or 2.19, it will, to the extent not inconsistent with the internal policies of such Lender and any applicable legal or regulatory restrictions, use reasonable efforts to (a) make, issue, fund or maintain its Credit Extensions, including any Affected Loans, through another office of such Lender, or (b) take such other measures as such Lender may deem reasonable, if as a result thereof the circumstances which would cause such Lender to be an Affected Lender would cease to exist or the additional amounts which would otherwise be required to be paid to such Lender pursuant to Section 2.17, 2.18 or 2.19 would be materially reduced and if, as determined by such Lender in its sole discretion, the making, issuing, funding or maintaining of such Revolving Commitments or Loans through such other office or in accordance with such other measures, as the case may be, would not otherwise adversely affect such Revolving Commitments or Loans or the interests of such Lender; provided, such Lender will not be obligated to utilize such other office pursuant to this Section 2.20 unless Company agrees to pay all expenses incurred by such Lender as a result of utilizing such other office as described above. A certificate as to the amount of any such expenses payable by Company pursuant to this Section 2.20 (setting forth in reasonable detail the basis for requesting such amount) submitted by such Lender to Company (with a copy to Administrative Agent) shall be conclusive absent manifest error. 2.21 DEFAULTING LENDERS. Anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, in the event that any Lender, other than at the direction or request of any regulatory agency or authority, defaults (a "DEFAULTING LENDER") in its obligation to fund (a "FUNDING DEFAULT") any Revolving Loan (in each case, a "DEFAULTED LOAN"), then (a) during any Default Period with respect to such Defaulting Lender, such Defaulting 48 Lender shall be deemed not to be a "Lender" for purposes of voting on any matters (including the granting of any consents or waivers) with respect to any of the Credit Documents; (b) to the extent permitted by applicable law, until such time as the Default Excess with respect to such Defaulting Lender shall have been reduced to zero, (i) any voluntary prepayment of the Revolving Loans shall, if Administrative Agent so directs at the time of making such voluntary prepayment, be applied to the Revolving Loans of other Lenders as if such Defaulting Lender had no Revolving Loans outstanding and the Revolving Exposure of such Defaulting Lender were zero, and (ii) any mandatory prepayment of the Revolving Loans shall, if Administrative Agent so directs at the time of making such mandatory prepayment, be applied to the Revolving Loans of other Lenders (but not to the Revolving Loans of such Defaulting Lender) as if such Defaulting Lender had funded all Defaulted Loans of such Defaulting Lender, it being understood and agreed that Company shall be entitled to retain any portion of any mandatory prepayment of the Revolving Loans that is not paid to such Defaulting Lender solely as a result of the operation of the provisions of this clause (b); (c) such Defaulting Lender's Revolving Commitment and outstanding Revolving Loans shall be excluded for purposes of calculating the Revolving Commitment fee payable to Lenders in respect of any day during any Default Period with respect to such Defaulting Lender, and such Defaulting Lender shall not be entitled to receive any Revolving Commitment fee pursuant to Section 2.10 with respect to such Defaulting Lender's Revolving Commitment in respect of any Default Period with respect to such Defaulting Lender; and (d) the Total Utilization of Revolving Commitments as at any date of determination shall be calculated as if such Defaulting Lender had funded all Defaulted Loans of such Defaulting Lender. No Revolving Commitment of any Lender shall be increased or otherwise affected, and, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Section 2.21, performance by Company of its obligations hereunder and the other Credit Documents shall not be excused or otherwise modified as a result of any Funding Default or the operation of this Section 2.21. The rights and remedies against a Defaulting Lender under this Section 2.21 are in addition to other rights and remedies which Company may have against such Defaulting Lender with respect to any Funding Default and which Administrative Agent or any Lender may have against such Defaulting Lender with respect to any Funding Default. 2.22 REMOVAL OR REPLACEMENT OF A LENDER. Anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, in the event that: (a) (i) any Lender (an "INCREASED COST LENDER") shall give notice to Company that such Lender is an Affected Lender or that such Lender is entitled to receive payments under Section 2.18, 2.19 or 2.20, (ii) the circumstances which have caused such Lender to be an Affected Lender or which entitle such Lender to receive such payments shall remain in effect, and (iii) such Lender shall fail to withdraw such notice within five (5) Business Days after Company's request for such withdrawal; or (b) (i) any Lender shall become a Defaulting Lender, (ii) the Default Period for such Defaulting Lender shall remain in effect, and (iii) such Defaulting Lender shall fail to cure the default as a result of which it has become a Defaulting Lender within five (5) Business Days after Company's request that it cure such default; or (c) in connection with any proposed amendment, modification, termination, waiver or consent with respect to any of the provisions hereof as contemplated by Section 10.5(b), the consent of Administrative Agent and Requisite Lenders shall have been obtained but the consent of one or more of such other Lenders (each a "NON-CONSENTING LENDER") whose 49 consent is required shall not have been obtained; then, with respect to each such Increased Cost Lender, Defaulting Lender or Non-Consenting Lender (the "TERMINATED LENDER"), Administrative Agent may (which, in the case of an Increased Cost Lender, only after receiving written request from Company to remove such Increased Cost Lender), by giving written notice to Company and any Terminated Lender of its election to do so, elect to cause such Terminated Lender (and such Terminated Lender hereby irrevocably agrees) to assign its outstanding Loans and its Revolving Commitments, if any, in full to one or more Eligible Assignees (each a "REPLACEMENT LENDER") in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.6 and Terminated Lender shall pay any fees payable thereunder in connection with such assignment; provided, (1) on the date of such assignment, the Replacement Lender shall pay to Terminated Lender an amount equal to the sum of (A) an amount equal to the principal of, and all accrued interest on, all outstanding Loans of the Terminated Lender, (B) an amount equal to all unreimbursed drawings that have been funded by such Terminated Lender, together with all then unpaid interest with respect thereto at such time and (C) an amount equal to all accrued, but theretofore unpaid fees owing to such Terminated Lender pursuant to Section 2.10; (2) on the date of such assignment, Company shall pay any amounts payable to such Terminated Lender pursuant to Section 2.18 or 2.19; and (3) in the event such Terminated Lender is a Non-Consenting Lender, each Replacement Lender shall consent, at the time of such assignment, to each matter in respect of which such Terminated Lender was a Non-Consenting Lender. Upon the prepayment of all amounts owing to any Terminated Lender and the termination of such Terminated Lender's Revolving Commitments, if any, such Terminated Lender shall no longer constitute a "Lender" for purposes hereof; provided, any rights of such Terminated Lender to indemnification hereunder shall survive as to such Terminated Lender. SECTION 3. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT 3.1 CLOSING DATE. The obligation of each Lender to make a Credit Extension on the Closing Date is subject to the satisfaction, or waiver in accordance with Section 10.5, of the following conditions on or before the Closing Date: (a) Credit Documents. Administrative Agent shall have received sufficient copies of each Credit Document originally executed and delivered by each applicable Credit Party for each Lender. (b) Organizational Documents; Incumbency. Administrative Agent shall have received (i) sufficient copies of each Organizational Document executed and delivered by each Credit Party, as applicable, and, to the extent applicable, certified as of a recent date by the appropriate governmental official, for each Lender, each dated the Closing Date or a recent date prior thereto; (ii) signature and incumbency certificates of the officers of such Person executing the Credit Documents to which it is a party; (iii) resolutions of the Board of Directors or similar governing body of each Credit Party approving and authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Credit Documents to which it is a party or by which it or its assets may be bound as of the Closing Date, certified as of the Closing Date by its secretary or an assistant secretary as being in full force and effect without modification or amendment; 50 (iv) a good standing certificate from the applicable Governmental Authority of each Credit Party's jurisdiction of incorporation, organization or formation and in each jurisdiction in which it is qualified as a foreign corporation or other entity to do business, each dated a recent date prior to the Closing Date; and (v) such other documents as Administrative Agent may reasonably request. (c) Organizational and Capital Structure. The organizational structure and capital structure of Company and its Subsidiaries shall be as set forth on Schedule 4.1. (d) Existing Indebtedness; etc. On the Closing Date, Company and its Subsidiaries shall have (i) repaid in full all Existing Indebtedness, (ii) terminated any commitments to lend or make other extensions of credit thereunder, (iii) delivered to Administrative Agent all documents or instruments necessary to release all Liens securing Existing Indebtedness or other obligations of Company and its Subsidiaries thereunder being repaid on the Closing Date, and (iv) made arrangements satisfactory to Administrative Agent with respect to the cancellation of any letters of credit outstanding thereunder. (e) Transaction Costs. On or prior to the Closing Date, Company shall have delivered to Administrative Agent Company's reasonable best estimate of the Transactions Costs (other than fees payable to any Agent). (f) Governmental Authorizations and Consents. Each Credit Party shall have obtained all Governmental Authorizations and all consents of other Persons, in each case that are necessary or advisable in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Credit Documents and each of the foregoing shall be in full force and effect and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent. All applicable waiting periods shall have expired without any action being taken or threatened by any competent authority which would restrain, prevent or otherwise impose adverse conditions on the transactions contemplated by the Credit Documents and no action, request for stay, petition for review or rehearing, reconsideration, or appeal with respect to any of the foregoing shall be pending, and the time for any applicable agency to take action to set aside its consent on its own motion shall have expired. (g) Atlantic Documents. Company shall have delivered to Administrative Agent copies of (i) the Atlantic Existing Credit Facility, (ii) the Atlantic Term Loan Agreement, (iii) the Atlantic Fund Guaranty, (iv) the Atlantic Collateral Release, (v) the Atlantic Side Letter and (vi) the Subordination Agreement, each of which shall have been duly executed and delivered by each of the parties thereto and in full force and effect: (h) Personal Property Collateral. In order to create in favor of Collateral Agent, for the benefit of Secured Parties, a valid, perfected First Priority security interest in the personal property Collateral, Collateral Agent shall have received: 51 (i) evidence satisfactory to Collateral Agent of the compliance by each Credit Party of their obligations under the Pledge and Security Agreement and the other Collateral Documents (including, without limitation, their obligations to authorize the filing of UCC financing statements and to execute and/or deliver originals of securities, instruments and chattel paper (together with any required instruments of transfer) and any agreements granting "control" deposit and/or securities accounts as provided therein); (ii) A completed Collateral Questionnaire dated the Closing Date and executed by an Authorized Officer of each Credit Party party to the Pledge and Security Agreement, together with all attachments contemplated thereby, including (A) the results of a recent search, by a Person satisfactory to Collateral Agent, of all effective UCC financing statements (or equivalent filings) made with respect to any personal or mixed property of any Credit Party in the jurisdictions specified in the Collateral Questionnaire, together with copies of all such filings disclosed by such search, and (B) UCC termination statements (or similar documents) duly executed by all applicable Persons for filing in all applicable jurisdictions as may be necessary to terminate any effective UCC financing statements (or equivalent filings) disclosed in such search (other than any such financing statements in respect of Permitted Liens); (iii) opinions of counsel (which counsel shall be reasonably satisfactory to Collateral Agent) with respect to the creation and perfection of the security interests in Collateral in favor of Collateral Agent in such Collateral and such other matters governed by the laws of each jurisdiction in which any filings are required to perfect the security interests in the Collateral in favor of Collateral Agent as Collateral Agent may reasonably request, in each case in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Collateral Agent; and (iv) evidence that each Credit Party shall have taken or caused to be taken any other action, executed and delivered or caused to be executed and delivered any other agreement, document and instrument (including without limitation, a Landlord Personal Property Collateral Access Agreement executed by the landlord of any Leasehold Property and by the applicable Credit Party) and made or caused to be made any other filing and recording (other than as set forth herein) reasonably required by Collateral Agent. (i) Escrow Agreement. The Escrow Agreement shall have been duly executed and delivered by each of the parties thereto, and shall be in full force and effect. (j) Financial Statements; Projections. Lenders shall have received from Company (i) the Historical Financial Statements, (ii) pro forma consolidated balance sheets of Company and its Subsidiaries as at the Closing Date, the related financings and the other transactions contemplated by the Credit Documents to occur on or prior to the Closing Date, which pro forma financial statements shall be in form and substance satisfactory to Administrative Agent, and (iii) the Projections. 52 (k) Evidence of Insurance. Collateral Agent shall have received a certificate from Company's insurance broker or other evidence satisfactory to it that all insurance required to be maintained pursuant to Section 5.5 is in full force and effect, together with endorsements naming the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of Secured Parties, as additional insured and loss payee thereunder to the extent required under Section 5.5. (l) Opinions of Counsel to Credit Parties. Lenders and their respective counsel shall have received originally executed copies of the favorable written opinions of (i) BRL Law Group LLC and Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference LLP, each counsel for Credit Parties, in the forms of Exhibit D-1 and Exhibit D-2, respectively, (ii) Heller Ehrman LLP, counsel for Atlantic, in the form of Exhibit D-3, and (iii) Harney Westwood and Riegels, counsel for Atlantic Related Entity, in form and substance satisfactory to Administrative Agent, and, in each case, as to such other matters as Administrative Agent may reasonably request, each dated as of the Closing Date and each otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent (and each Credit Party hereby instructs such counsel to deliver such opinions to Agents and Lenders). (m) Fees. Company shall have paid to Administrative Agent the fees payable on the Closing Date referred to in Section 2.10(c). (n) Intercompany Note. On or prior to the Closing Date, Company and each of its Domestic' Subsidiaries shall have received an intercompany note in form substance satisfactory to Administrative Agent executed and delivered by Company and each of its Domestic Subsidiaries (the "INTERCOMPANY NOTE"), and the original of the Intercompany Note, duly endorsed by each of the parties thereto, shall have been delivered to the Collateral Agent as under the terms of the Pledge and Security Agreement. (o) Closing Date Certificate. Company and its Subsidiaries shall have delivered to Administrative Agent an originally executed Closing Date Certificate, together with all attachments thereto. (p) Closing Date Loans. Lenders shall have made the Term Loan to Company on the Closing Date and no Credit Extension constituting a Revolving Loan shall have been made on the Closing Date. (q) No Litigation. Except as described on Schedule 4.11, there shall not exist any action, suit, investigation, litigation or proceeding or other legal or regulatory developments, pending or threatened in any court or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority that, in the reasonable opinion of Administrative Agent, singly or in the aggregate, materially impairs the Refinancing or any of the other transactions contemplated by the Credit Documents, or that could have a Material Adverse Effect. (r) Due Diligence. Other than changes occurring in the ordinary course of business, no information or materials are or should have been available to 53 Company and its Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date that are materially inconsistent with the material previously provided to Administrative Agent for its due diligence review of Company and its Subsidiaries. The results of Administrative Agent's and each Lender's business, legal, and collateral due diligence review are satisfactory to Administrative Agent and each Lender, each in its sole discretion. (s) Minimum EBITDA. The financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 3.1(j) shall demonstrate in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent that on the Closing Date and immediately after giving effect to any Credit Extensions to be made on the Closing Date, including the payment of all Transaction Costs required to be paid in Cash, Company shall have generated trailing twelve month Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA of at least $12,400,000. (t) Net Working Capital. The pro forma balance sheet delivered pursuant to Section 3.1(j) shall demonstrate in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent that on the Closing Date and immediately after giving effect to any Credit Extensions to be made on the Closing Date, including the payment of all Transaction Costs required to be paid in Cash, the Net Working Capital of Company and its Subsidiaries is equal to or greater than $(16,900,000). (u) Maximum Leverage Ratio. The pro forma balance sheet delivered pursuant to Section 3.1(j) shall demonstrate in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent that on the Closing Date and immediately after giving effect to any Credit Extensions to be made on the Closing Date, including the payment of all Transaction Costs required to be paid in Cash, the ratio of (i) total Indebtedness for Company and its Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date to (ii) pro forma Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA for the twelve-month period ending March 31, 2006 shall not be greater than 5.80:1.00. (v) Minimum Liquidity. Company shall have (and shall have demonstrated to Administrative Agent's satisfaction that it has), after giving effect to the making of the Term Loans, the repayment of all Existing Indebtedness, and the payment of, or provision for, all Transaction Costs, at least $800,000 of available, unencumbered cash on hand (which shall not include amounts subject to the Escrow Agreement). (w) No Material Adverse Change. Since July 31, 2005, no event, circumstance or change shall have occurred that has caused or evidences, either in any case or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. (x) Completion of Proceedings. All partnership, corporate and other proceedings taken or to be taken in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and all documents incidental thereto not previously found acceptable by Administrative Agent and its counsel shall be satisfactory in form and substance to Administrative Agent and such counsel, and Administrative Agent, and such counsel shall have received all such counterpart originals or certified copies of such documents as Administrative Agent may reasonably request. 54 (y) Service of Process. On the Closing Date, Administrative Agent shall have received evidence that each Credit Party has appointed an agent in New York City for the purpose of service of process in New York City and such agent shall agree in writing to give Administrative Agent notice of any resignation of such service agent or other termination of the agency relationship. (z) Warrants. Company shall have authorized the issuance to Silver Point of warrants for the purchase of an aggregate of 3,514,933 shares of common stock of Company (the "WARRANT SHARES"), subject to adjustment as set forth in the Warrants. Such Warrants shall be substantially in the form set forth as Exhibit A attached to the Warrant Agreement and are referred to individually as a "WARRANT" and collectively as the "WARRANTS," which terms shall also include any warrants delivered in exchange or replacement therefor. Each Lender, by delivering its signature page to this Agreement and funding a Loan on the Closing Date, shall be deemed to have acknowledged receipt of, and consented to and approved, each Credit Document and each other document required to be approved by any Agent, Requisite Lenders or Lenders, as applicable on the Closing Date. 3.2 CONDITIONS TO EACH CREDIT EXTENSION. (a) Conditions Precedent. The obligation of each Lender to make any Loan on any Credit Date, including the Closing Date, are subject to the satisfaction, or waiver in accordance with Section 10.5, of the following conditions precedent: (i) Administrative Agent shall have received a fully executed and delivered Funding Notice; (ii) after making the Credit Extensions requested on such Credit Date, the Total Utilization of Revolving Commitments shall not exceed the Revolving Commitments then in effect; (iii) as of such Credit Date, the representations and warranties contained herein and in the other Credit Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of that Credit Date to the same extent as though made on and as of that date, except to the extent such representations and warranties specifically relate to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall have been true and correct in all material respects on and as of such earlier date; and (iv) as of such Credit Date, no event shall have occurred and be continuing or would result from the consummation of the applicable Credit Extension that would constitute an Event of Default or a Default. Any Agent shall be entitled, but not obligated to, request and receive, prior to the making of any Credit Extension, additional information reasonably satisfactory to the requesting 55 party confirming the satisfaction of any of the foregoing if, in the good faith judgment of such Agent such request is warranted under the circumstances. Each Lender, by delivering its signature page to this Agreement and funding a Loan on the Closing Date, shall be deemed to have acknowledged receipt of, and consented to and approved, each Credit Document and each other document required to be approved by any Agent, Requisite Lenders or Lenders, as applicable on the Closing Date. (b) Notices. Any Notice shall be executed by an Authorized Officer in a writing delivered to Administrative Agent. In lieu of delivering a Notice, Company may give Administrative Agent telephonic notice by the required time of any proposed borrowing or conversion/continuation, provided each such notice shall be promptly confirmed in writing by delivery of the applicable Notice to Administrative Agent on or before the applicable date of borrowing or conversion/continuation. Neither Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall incur any liability to Company in acting upon any telephonic notice referred to above that Administrative Agent believes in good faith to have been given by a duly authorized officer or other person authorized on behalf of Company or for otherwise acting in good faith. SECTION 4. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES In order to induce Lenders to enter into this Agreement and to make each Credit Extension to be made thereby, each Credit Party represents and warrants to each Lender, on the Closing Date and on each Credit Date, that the following statements are true and correct (it being understood and agreed that the representations and warranties made on the Closing Date are deemed to be made concurrently with the consummation of the Refinancing): 4.1 ORGANIZATION; REQUISITE POWER AND AUTHORITY; QUALIFICATION. Each of Company and its Subsidiaries (a) is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization as identified in Schedule 4.1, (b) has all requisite power and authority to own and operate its properties, to carry on its business as now conducted and as proposed to be conducted, to enter into the Credit Documents to which it is a party and to carry out the transactions contemplated thereby, and (c) is qualified to do business and in good standing in every jurisdiction where its assets are located and wherever necessary to carry out its business and operations, except in jurisdictions where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing has not had, and could not be reasonably expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect. 4.2 CAPITAL STOCK AND OWNERSHIP. The Capital Stock of each of Company and its Subsidiaries has been duly authorized and validly issued and is fully paid and non assessable. Except as set forth on Schedule 4.2, as of the date hereof, there is no existing option, warrant, call, right, commitment or other agreement to which Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party requiring, and there is no membership interest or other Capital Stock of Company or any of its Subsidiaries outstanding which upon conversion or exchange would require, the issuance by Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any additional membership interests or other Capital Stock of Company or any of its 56 Subsidiaries or other Securities convertible into, exchangeable for or evidencing the right to subscribe for or purchase, a membership interest or other Capital Stock of Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Schedule 4.2 correctly sets forth the ownership interest of Company and each of its Subsidiaries in their respective Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date. 4.3 DUE AUTHORIZATION. The execution, delivery and performance of the Credit Documents have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of each Credit Party that is a party thereto. 4.4 NO CONFLICT. The execution, delivery and performance by Credit Parties of the Credit Documents to which they are parties and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Credit Documents do not and will not (a) violate any provision of any law or any governmental rule or regulation applicable to Company or any of its Subsidiaries, any of the Organizational Documents of Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or any order, judgment or decree of any court or other agency of government binding on Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (b) conflict with, result in a breach of or constitute (with due notice or lapse of time or both) a default under any Contractual Obligation of Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (c) result in or require the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of the properties or assets of Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than any Liens created under any of the Credit Documents in favor of Collateral Agent, on behalf of Secured Parties); or (d) require any approval of stockholders, members or partners or any approval or consent of any Person under any Contractual Obligation of Company or any of its Subsidiaries, except for such approvals or consents which will be obtained on or before the Closing Date and disclosed in writing to Lenders. 4.5 GOVERNMENTAL CONSENTS. The execution, delivery and performance by Credit Parties of the Credit Documents to which they are parties and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Credit Documents do not and will not require any registration with, consent or approval of, or notice to, or other action to, with or by, any Governmental Authority, except for filings and recordings with respect to the Collateral to be made, or otherwise delivered to Collateral Agent for filing and/or recordation, as of the Closing Date. 4.6 BINDING OBLIGATION. Each Credit Document has been duly executed and delivered by each Credit Party that is a party thereto and is the legally valid and binding obligation of such Credit Party, enforceable against such Credit Party in accordance with its respective terms, except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws relating to or limiting creditors' rights generally or by equitable principles relating to enforceability. 4.7 HISTORICAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. The Historical Financial Statements were prepared in conformity with GAAP and fairly present, in all material respects, the financial position, on a consolidated basis, of the Persons described in such financial statements as at the respective dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows, on a consolidated basis, of the entities described therein for each of the periods then 57 ended, subject, in the case of any such unaudited financial statements, to changes resulting from audit and normal year end adjustments. As of the Closing Date, neither Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any contingent liability or liability for Taxes, long term lease or unusual forward or long term commitment that is not reflected in the Historical Financial Statements or the notes thereto and which in any such case is material in relation to the business, operations, properties, assets, condition (financial or otherwise) or prospects of Company and any of its Subsidiaries taken as a whole. 4.8 PROJECTIONS. On and as of the Closing Date, the Projections of Company and its Subsidiaries provided by Company to Administrative Agent on or about March 1, 2006 for the period of Fiscal Year ending on July 31, 2006 through and including Fiscal Year ending on July 31, 2010, including monthly projections for each month during the Fiscal Year in which the Closing Date takes place, (the "PROJECTIONS") are based on good faith estimates and assumptions made by the management of Company; provided, the Projections are not to be viewed as facts and that actual results during the period or periods covered by the Projections may differ from such Projections in immaterial and material respects; provided further, as of the Closing Date, management of Company believed that the Projections were reasonable and attainable. 4.9 NO MATERIAL ADVERSE CHANGE. Since July 31, 2005, no event, circumstance or change has occurred that has caused or evidences, either in any case or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. 4.10 NO RESTRICTED JUNIOR PAYMENTS. Since July 31, 2005, neither Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has directly or indirectly declared, ordered, paid or made, or set apart any sum or property for, any Restricted Junior Payment or agreed to do so except as permitted pursuant to Section 6.5. 4.11 ADVERSE PROCEEDINGS, ETC. Except as described on Schedule 4.11, there are no Adverse Proceedings, individually or in the aggregate, that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither Company nor any of its Subsidiaries (a) is in violation of any applicable laws (including Environmental Laws) that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, or (b) is subject to or in default with respect to any final judgments, writs, injunctions, decrees, rules or regulations of any court or any federal, state, municipal or other governmental department, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, domestic or foreign, that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. 4.12 PAYMENT OF TAXES. Except as otherwise permitted under Section 5.3, all tax returns and reports of Company and its Subsidiaries required to be filed by any of them have been timely filed, and all Taxes shown on such tax returns to be due and payable and all assessments, fees and other governmental charges upon Company and its Subsidiaries and upon their respective properties, assets, income, businesses and franchises which are due and payable have been paid when due and payable. Company knows of no proposed tax assessment against Company or any of its Subsidiaries which is not being actively contested by Company or such Subsidiary in good faith and by 58 appropriate proceedings; provided, such reserves or other appropriate provisions, if any, as shall be required in conformity with GAAP shall have been made or provided therefor. 4.13 PROPERTIES. (a) Title. Each of Company and its Subsidiaries has (i) good, sufficient and legal title to (in the case of fee interests in real property), (ii) valid leasehold interests in (in the case of leasehold interests in real or personal property), and (iii) good title to (in the case of all other personal property), all of their respective properties and assets reflected in their respective Historical Financial Statements referred to in Section 4.5 and in the most recent financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 5.1, in each case except for assets disposed of since the date of such financial statements in the ordinary course of business or as otherwise permitted under Section 6.9. Except as permitted by this Agreement, all such properties and assets are free and clear of Liens. (b) Real Estate. As of the Closing Date, Schedule 4.13(b) contains a true, accurate and complete list of (i) all Real Estate Assets, and (ii) all leases, subleases or assignments of leases (together with all amendments, modifications, supplements, renewals or extensions of any thereof) affecting each Real Estate Asset of any Credit Party, regardless of whether such Credit Party is the landlord or tenant (whether directly or as an assignee or successor in interest) under such lease, sublease or assignment. Each agreement listed in clause (ii) of the immediately preceding sentence is in full force and effect and Company does not have knowledge of any default that has occurred and is continuing thereunder, and each such agreement constitutes the legally valid and binding obligation of each applicable Credit Party, enforceable against such Credit Party in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws relating to or limiting creditors' rights generally or by equitable principles. As of the Closing Date, no Credit Party has received any notice of non-payment of rent or other amounts owed from its landlord of its leased premises located at 395 Hudson Street, New York, New York. 4.14 ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS. Neither Company nor any of its Subsidiaries nor any of their respective Facilities or operations are subject to any outstanding written order, consent decree or settlement agreement with any Person relating to any Environmental Law, any Environmental Claim, or any Hazardous Materials Activity that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any letter or request for information under Section 104 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. Section 9604) or any comparable state law. There are and, to each of Company's and its Subsidiaries' knowledge, have been, no conditions, occurrences, or Hazardous Materials Activities which could reasonably be expected to form the basis of an Environmental Claim against Company or any of its Subsidiaries that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither Company nor any of its Subsidiaries nor, to any Credit Party's knowledge, any predecessor of Company or any of its Subsidiaries has filed any notice under any Environmental Law indicating past or present treatment of Hazardous Materials at any Facility, and none of Company's or any of its Subsidiaries' operations 59 involves the generation, transportation, treatment, storage or disposal of hazardous waste, as defined under 40 C.F.R. Parts 260 270 or any state equivalent. Compliance with all current or reasonably foreseeable future requirements pursuant to or under Environmental Laws could not be reasonably expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. No event or condition has occurred or is occurring with respect to Company or any of its Subsidiaries relating to any Environmental Law, any Release of Hazardous Materials, or any Hazardous Materials Activity which individually or in the aggregate has had, or could reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect. 4.15 NO DEFAULTS. Neither Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is in default in the performance, observance or fulfillment of any of the obligations, covenants or conditions contained in any of its Contractual Obligations, and no condition exists which, with the giving of notice or the lapse of time or both, could constitute such a default, except where the consequences, direct or indirect, of such default or defaults, if any, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. 4.16 MATERIAL CONTRACTS. Schedule 4.16 contains a true, correct and complete list of all the Material Contracts in effect on the Closing Date, which, together with any updates provided pursuant to Section 5.1(l), all such Material Contracts are in full force and effect and no defaults currently exist thereunder (other than as described in Schedule 4.16 or in such updates). 4.17 GOVERNMENTAL REGULATION. Neither Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is subject to regulation under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, the Federal Power Act or the Investment Company Act of 1940 or under any other federal or state statute or regulation which may limit its ability to incur Indebtedness or which may otherwise render all or any portion of the Obligations unenforceable. Neither Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is a "registered investment company" or a company "controlled" by a "registered investment company" or a "principal underwriter" of a "registered investment company" as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940. 4.18 MARGIN STOCK. Neither Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is engaged principally, or as one of its important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any Margin Stock. No part of the proceeds of the Loans made to such Credit Party 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 or for any purpose that violates, or is inconsistent with, the provisions of Regulation T, U or X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. 4.19 EMPLOYEE MATTERS. Company and each of its Subsidiaries has good labor-relations. Company, its Subsidiaries, and their respective employees, agents and representatives have not committed any material unfair labor practice as defined in the National Labor Relations Act. Neither Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has been or is engaged in any unfair labor practice that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. There has been and is (a) no unfair labor practice charge or complaint pending against Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or to the best knowledge 60 of Company and its Subsidiaries, threatened against any of them before the National Labor Relations Board or any other Governmental Authority and no grievance or arbitration proceeding arising out of or under any collective bargaining agreement or similar agreement that is so pending against Company or any of its Subsidiaries or to the best knowledge of Company and its Subsidiaries, threatened against any of them, (b) no labor dispute, strike, lockout, slowdown or work stoppage in existence or threatened against, involving or affecting Company or any of its Subsidiaries that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (c) no labor union, labor organization, trade union, works council, or group of employees of Company or any of its Subsidiaries has made a pending demand for recognition or certification, and there are no representation or certification proceedings or petitions seeking a representation proceeding presently pending or threatened to be brought or filed with the National Labor Relations Board or any other Governmental Authority, and (d) to the best knowledge of Company and its Subsidiaries, no union representation question existing with respect to any of the employees of Company or any of its Subsidiaries and, to the best knowledge of Company and its Subsidiaries, no labor union organizing activity with respect to any employees of Company or any of its Subsidiaries that is taking place, except (with respect to any matter specified in clause (a), (b), (c) or (d) above, either individually or in the aggregate) such as is not reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect. 4.20 EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS. Company, each of its Subsidiaries and each of their respective ERISA Affiliates are in compliance with all applicable provisions and requirements of ERISA and the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder with respect to each Employee Benefit Plan, and have performed all their obligations under each Employee Benefit Plan. Each Employee Benefit Plan which is intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code has received a favorable determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service indicating that such Employee Benefit Plan is so qualified and nothing has occurred subsequent to the issuance of such determination letter which would cause such Employee Benefit Plan to lose its qualified status. No liability to the PBGC (other than required premium payments) or the Internal Revenue Service has been or is expected to be incurred by Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their ERISA with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan. No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur. Except to the extent required under Section 4980B of the Internal Revenue Code or similar state laws, or otherwise funded entirely by the participants thereof, no Employee Benefit Plan provides health or welfare benefits (through the purchase of insurance or otherwise) for any retired or former employee of Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates. The present value of the aggregate benefit liabilities under each Pension Plan sponsored, maintained or contributed to by Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their ERISA Affiliates (determined as of the end of the most recent plan year on the basis of the actuarial assumptions specified for funding purposes in the most recent actuarial valuation for such Pension Plan), did not exceed the aggregate current value of the assets of such Pension Plan. As of the most recent valuation date for each Multiemployer Plan for which the actuarial report is available, the potential liability of Company, its Subsidiaries and their respective ERISA Affiliates for a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan (within the meaning of Section 4203 or Section 4205 of ERISA), 61 when aggregated with such potential liability for a complete or partial withdrawal from all Multiemployer Plans is zero. Company, each of its Subsidiaries and each of their ERISA Affiliates have complied with the requirements of Section 515 of ERISA with respect to each Multiemployer Plan and are not in material "default" (as defined in Section 4219(c)(5) of ERISA) with respect to payments to a Multiemployer Plan. 4.21 CERTAIN FEES. No broker's or finder's fee or commission will be payable with respect hereto or any of the transactions contemplated hereby. 4.22 SILICON VALLEY BANK FACILITY. Schedule 4.22 sets forth, as of the Closing Date, (i) the approximate respective values of accounts receivable pledged by the Credit Parties to Silicon Valley Bank under the account receivables financing facility described in clause (ii) of the definition of Existing Indebtedness (the "SVB FACILITY") and (ii) each such Credit Parties' attributable amount of indebtedness under such facility as of the Closing Date, based on such Credit Parties' accounts receivable so pledged (for each such Credit Party, its "SVB PAYOFF ALLOCATION AMOUNT"). On the Closing Date, Company has made, from the proceeds of the Term Loan, an intercompany loan evidenced by the Intercompany Note to each of its Subsidiaries party to SVB Facility to fund each such Subsidiary's SVB Payoff Allocation Amount, and each such Subsidiary has applied its SVB Payoff Allocation Amount to the repayment of the SVB Facility on the Closing Date. 4.23 [RESERVED.] 4.24 COMPLIANCE WITH STATUTES, ETC. Each of Company and its Subsidiaries is in compliance with all applicable statutes, regulations and orders of, and all applicable restrictions imposed by, all Governmental Authorities, in respect of the conduct of its business and the ownership of its property (including compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws with respect to any Real Estate Asset or governing its business and the requirements of any permits issued under such Environmental Laws with respect to any such Real Estate Asset or the operations of Company or any of its Subsidiaries), except such non-compliance that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. 4.25 DISCLOSURE. No representation or warranty of any Credit Party contained in any Credit Document or in any other documents, certificates or written statements furnished to Lenders by or on behalf of Company or any of its Subsidiaries for use in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact (known to Company or any Subsidiary, in the case of any document not furnished by either of them) necessary in order to make the statements contained herein or therein not misleading in light of the circumstances in which the same were made. Any projections and pro forma financial information contained in such materials are based upon good faith estimates and assumptions believed by Company or any Subsidiary to be reasonable at the time made, it being recognized by Lenders that such projections as to future events are not to be viewed as facts and that actual results during the period or periods covered by any such projections may differ from the projected results. There are no facts known (or which should upon the reasonable 62 exercise of diligence be known) to Company or any Subsidiary (other than matters of a general economic nature) that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect and that have not been disclosed herein or in such other documents, certificates and statements furnished to Lenders for use in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby. 4.26 PATRIOT ACT. To the extent applicable, each Credit Party is in compliance, in all material respects, with the (i) Trading with the Enemy Act, as amended, and each of the foreign assets control regulations of the Untied States Treasury Department (31 CFR, Subtitle B, Chapter V, as amended) and any other enabling legislation or executive order relating thereto, and (ii) Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA Patriot Act of 2001) (the "ACT"). No part of the proceeds of the Loans will be used, directly or indirectly, for any payments to any governmental official or employee, political party, official of a political party, candidate for political office, or anyone else acting in an official capacity, in order to obtain, retain or direct business or obtain any improper advantage, in violation of the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended. SECTION 5. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS Company and each Guarantor covenants and agrees that so long as any Commitment is in effect and until payment in full of all Obligations, it shall perform, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to perform, all covenants in this Section 5. 5.1 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND OTHER REPORTS. Unless otherwise provided below, Company will deliver to Administrative Agent and Lenders: (a) Monthly Reports. As soon as available, and in any event within thirty (30) days after the end of each month (including months which began prior to the Closing Date), the consolidated balance sheet of Company and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such month and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholders' equity and cash flows of Company and its Subsidiaries for such month and for the period from the beginning of the then current Fiscal Year to the end of such month, setting forth (for each month on and after April 2007) in each case in comparative form the corresponding figures for the corresponding periods of the previous Fiscal Year, together with a Financial Officer Certification and any other operating and management reports prepared by management for or during such period (with shall include, in any event, a report prepared on at least a monthly basis on typical operating metrics and internal weekly cash flow forecasts, each substantially in the form prepared by management prior to the Closing Date); (b) Quarterly Financial Statements. As soon as available, and in any event within forty-five (45) days after the end of each Fiscal Quarter of each Fiscal Year (including the fourth Fiscal Quarter), the consolidated and consolidating balance sheets of Company and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such Fiscal Quarter and the 63 related consolidated (and with respect to statements of income, consolidating) statements of income, stockholders' equity and cash flows of Company and its Subsidiaries for such Fiscal Quarter and for the period from the beginning of the then current Fiscal Year to the end of such Fiscal Quarter, setting forth in each case in comparative form the corresponding figures for the corresponding periods of the previous Fiscal Year and the corresponding figures from the Financial Plan for the current Fiscal Year, all in reasonable detail, together with a Financial Officer Certification and a Narrative Report with respect thereto; (c) Annual Financial Statements. As soon as available, and in any event within ninety (90) days after the end of each Fiscal Year, (i) the consolidated and consolidating balance sheets of Company and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such Fiscal Year and the related consolidated (and with respect to statements of income, consolidating) statements of income, stockholders' equity and cash flows of Company and its Subsidiaries for such Fiscal Year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the corresponding figures for the previous Fiscal Year and the corresponding figures from the Financial Plan for the Fiscal Year covered by such financial statements, in reasonable detail, together with a Financial Officer Certification and a Narrative Report with respect thereto; and (ii) with respect to such consolidated financial statements a report thereon of KPMG LLP or other independent certified public accountants of recognized national standing selected by Company, and reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent (which report shall be unqualified as to scope of audit (and shall not contain any explanatory provisions with respect thereto), and shall state that such consolidated financial statements fairly present, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of Company and its Subsidiaries as at the dates indicated and the results of their operations and their cash flows for the periods indicated in conformity with GAAP applied on a basis consistent with prior years (except as otherwise disclosed in such financial statements) and that the examination by such accountants in connection with such consolidated financial statements has been made in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards) together with a written statement by such independent certified public accountants stating (1) that their audit examination has included a review of the terms of the Credit Documents, (2) whether, in connection therewith, any condition or event that constitutes a Default or an Event of Default has come to their attention and, if such a condition or event has come to their attention, specifying the nature and period of existence thereof, and (3) that nothing has come to their attention that causes them to believe that the information contained in any Compliance Certificate is not correct or that the matters set forth in such Compliance Certificate are not stated in accordance with the terms hereof; (d) Compliance Certificate. Together with each delivery of financial statements of Company and its Subsidiaries pursuant to Sections 5.1(b) and 5.1(c), a duly executed and completed Compliance Certificate; (e) Statements of Reconciliation after Change in Accounting Principles. If, as a result of any change in accounting principles and policies from those used in the preparation of the Historical Financial Statements, the consolidated financial statements of Company and its Subsidiaries delivered pursuant to Section 5.1(b) or 5.1(c) 64 will differ in any material respect from the consolidated financial statements that would have been delivered pursuant to such subdivisions had no such change in accounting principles and policies been made, then, together with the first delivery of such financial statements after such change, one or more statements of reconciliation for all such prior financial statements in form and substance satisfactory to Administrative Agent; (f) Notice of Default. Promptly upon any officer of Company or any Subsidiary obtaining knowledge (i) of any condition or event that constitutes a Default or an Event of Default or that notice has been given to Company or any Subsidiary with respect thereto; (ii) that any Person has given any notice to Company or any of its Subsidiaries or taken any other action with respect to any event or condition set forth in Section 8.1(b); or (iii) of the occurrence of any event or change that has caused or evidences, either in any case or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, a certificate of its Authorized Officers specifying the nature and period of existence of such condition, event or change, or specifying the notice given and action taken by any such Person and the nature of such claimed Event of Default, Default, default, event or condition, and what action Company has taken, is taking and proposes to take with respect thereto; (g) Notice of Litigation. Promptly upon any officer of Company or any Subsidiary obtaining knowledge of (i) the institution of, or non frivolous threat of, any Adverse Proceeding not previously disclosed in writing by Company to Lenders, or (ii) any material development in any Adverse Proceeding that, in the case of either clause (i) or (ii) if adversely determined, could be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, or seeks to enjoin or otherwise prevent the consummation of, or to recover any damages or obtain relief as a result of, the transactions contemplated hereby, written notice thereof together with such other information as may be reasonably available to Company or its Subsidiaries to enable Lenders and their counsel to evaluate such matters; (h) ERISA. (i) Promptly upon becoming aware of the occurrence of or forthcoming occurrence of any ERISA Event, a written notice specifying the nature thereof, what action Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates has taken, is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto and, when known, any action taken or threatened by the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Labor or the PBGC with respect thereto; and (ii) with reasonable promptness, copies of (1) each Schedule B (Actuarial Information) to the annual report (Form 5500 Series) filed by Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates with the Internal Revenue Service with respect to each Pension Plan; (2) all notices received by Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates from a Multiemployer Plan sponsor concerning an ERISA Event; and (3) copies of such other documents or governmental reports or filings relating to any Employee Benefit Plan as Administrative Agent shall reasonably request; (i) Financial Plan. As soon as practicable and in any event no later than forty-five (45) days after the beginning of each Fiscal Year, a consolidated plan and financial forecast for such Fiscal Year and each Fiscal Year (or portion thereof) through the final maturity date of the Loans (a "FINANCIAL PLAN"), including (i) a 65 forecasted consolidated balance sheet and forecasted consolidated statements of income and cash flows of Company and its Subsidiaries for each such Fiscal Year, together with pro forma Compliance Certificates for each such Fiscal Year and an explanation of the assumptions on which such forecasts are based, (ii) forecasted consolidated statements of income and cash flows of Company and its Subsidiaries for each month of each such Fiscal Year, (iii) forecasts demonstrating projected compliance with the requirements of Section 6.8 through the final maturity date of the Loans, and (iv) forecasts demonstrating adequate liquidity through the final maturity date of the Loans, together, in each case, with an explanation of the assumptions on which such forecasts are based all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agents; (j) Insurance Report. As soon as practicable and in any event by the last day of each Fiscal Year, a report in form and substance satisfactory to Administrative Agent outlining all material insurance coverage maintained as of the date of such report by Company and its Subsidiaries and all material insurance coverage planned to be maintained by Company and its Subsidiaries in the immediately succeeding Fiscal Year; (k) Notice of Change in Board of Directors. With reasonable promptness, written notice of any change in the board of directors (or similar governing body) of Company; (l) Notice Regarding Material Contracts. Promptly, and in any event within ten (10) Business Days (i) after any Material Contract of Company or any of its Subsidiaries is terminated or amended in a manner that is materially adverse to Company or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, or (ii) any new Material Contract is entered into, a written statement describing such event, with copies of such material amendments or new contracts, delivered to Administrative Agent (to the extent such delivery is permitted by the terms of any such Material Contract, provided, no such prohibition on delivery shall be effective if it were bargained for by Company or its applicable Subsidiary with the intent of avoiding compliance with this Section 5.1(l)), and an explanation of any actions being taken with respect thereto; (m) Environmental Reports and Audits. As soon as practicable following receipt thereof, copies of all environmental audits and reports with respect to environmental matters at any Facility or which relate to any environmental liabilities of Company or its Subsidiaries which, in any such case, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; (n) Information Regarding Collateral. (a) Company will furnish to Collateral Agent prompt written notice of any change (i) in any Credit Party's corporate name, (ii) in any Credit Party's identity or corporate structure or (iii) in any Credit Party's Federal Taxpayer Identification Number. Company agrees not to effect or permit any change referred to in the preceding sentence unless all filings have been made under the UCC or otherwise that are required in order for Collateral Agent to continue at all times following such change to have a valid, legal and perfected security interest in all the Collateral and for the Collateral at all times following such change to have a valid, 66 legal and perfected security interest as contemplated in the Collateral Documents. Company also agrees promptly to notify Collateral Agent if any material portion of the Collateral is damaged or destroyed; (o) Annual Collateral Verification. Each year, at the time of delivery of annual financial statements with respect to the preceding Fiscal Year pursuant to Section 5.1(c), Company shall deliver to Collateral Agent an Officer's Certificate (i) either confirming that there has been no change in such information since the date of the Collateral Questionnaire delivered on the Closing Date or the date of the most recent certificate delivered pursuant to this Section and/or identifying such changes, or (ii) certifying that all UCC financing statements (including fixtures filings, as applicable) or other appropriate filings, recordings or registrations, have been filed of record in each governmental, municipal or other appropriate office in each jurisdiction identified in the Collateral Questionnaire or pursuant to clause (i) above to the extent necessary to protect and perfect the security interests under the Collateral Documents for a period of not less than 18 months after the date of such certificate (except as noted therein with respect to any continuation statements to be filed within such period); (p) Aging Reports. Together with each delivery of financial statements of Company and each other Credit Party pursuant to Sections 5.1(a), 5.1(b), and 5.1(c), (i) a summary of the accounts receivable aging report of each Credit Party as of the end of such period, and (ii) a summary of accounts payable aging report of each Credit Party as of the end of such period; (q) Tax Returns. As soon as practicable and in any event within fifteen (15) days following the filing thereof, copies of each federal income Tax return filed by or on behalf of any Credit Party; (r) Lease Reports. As soon as practicable and in any event within (i) ten (10) days following the end of each calendar month, a report specifying, for each parcel of real property leased by any Credit Party, whether all rent and other amounts then due under or in connection with such lease have been paid and, if any such amounts have not been paid, the amount in arrears and an explanation of the reasons therefor and (ii) two (2) Business Days of its receipt thereof, copies of any notice provided by any landlord, mortgagee or subtenant of any such leased property that alleges any breach or default under such lease, and sub-lease, or any document relating thereto; and (s) Other Information. (A) Promptly upon their becoming available, copies of (i) all financial statements, reports, notices and proxy statements sent or made available generally by Company to its security holders acting in such capacity or by any Subsidiary of Company to its security holders other than Company or another Subsidiary of Company, (ii) all regular and periodic reports and all registration statements and prospectuses, if any, filed by Company or any of its Subsidiaries with any securities exchange or with the Securities and Exchange Commission or any governmental or private regulatory authority, (iii) all press releases and other statements made available generally by Company or any of its Subsidiaries to the public concerning 67 material developments in the business of Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and (B) such other information and data with respect to Company or any of its Subsidiaries as from time to time may be reasonably requested by Administrative Agent. 5.2 EXISTENCE. Except as otherwise permitted under Section 6.9, each Credit Party will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, at all times preserve and keep in full force and effect its existence and all rights and franchises, licenses and permits material to its business; provided, no Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries shall be required to preserve any such existence, right or franchise, licenses and permits if such Person's board of directors (or similar governing body) shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of such Person, and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to such Person or to Lenders. 5.3 PAYMENT OF TAXES AND CLAIMS. Each Credit Party will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, pay all Taxes imposed upon it or any of its properties or assets or in respect of any of its income, businesses or franchises before any penalty or fine accrues thereon, and all claims (including claims for labor, services, materials and supplies) for sums that have become due and payable and that by law have or may become a Lien upon any of its properties or assets, prior to the time when any penalty or fine shall be incurred with respect thereto; provided, no such Tax or claim need be paid if it is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings promptly instituted and diligently conducted, so long as (a) adequate reserve or other appropriate provision, as shall be required in conformity with GAAP shall have been made therefor, and (b) in the case of a Tax or claim which has or may become a Lien against any of the Collateral, such contest proceedings conclusively operate to stay the sale of any portion of the Collateral to satisfy such Tax or claim. No Credit Party will, nor will it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, file or consent to the filing of any consolidated income tax return with any Person (other than Company or any of its Subsidiaries). 5.4 MAINTENANCE OF PROPERTIES; PAYMENTS OF LEASEHOLDS. Each Credit Party will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, maintain or cause to be maintained in good repair, working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, all material properties used or useful in the business of Company and its Subsidiaries and from time to time will make or cause to be made all appropriate repairs, renewals and replacements thereof. Each Credit Party will pay, on or before the same shall become due, all rent and other amounts due under or in connection with any lease of real property by such Credit Party (other than leases excluded from the provisions hereof in a writing signed by Company and Administrative Agent), provided, no such rent or other amount need be paid if it is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings promptly instituted and diligently conducted, so long as (a) adequate reserve or other appropriate provision, as shall be required in conformity with GAAP shall have been made therefor, and (b) Administrative Agent shall have consented in writing to such non-payment. 5.5 INSURANCE. Company will maintain or cause to be maintained, with financially sound and reputable insurers, (i) business interruption insurance reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent, and (ii) casualty insurance, such public liability insurance, third party property damage insurance with respect to liabilities, losses or damage in respect of 68 the assets, properties and businesses of Company and its Subsidiaries as may customarily be carried or maintained under similar circumstances by Persons of established reputation engaged in similar businesses, in each case in such amounts (giving effect to self insurance), with such deductibles, covering such risks and otherwise on such terms and conditions as shall be customary for such Persons. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Company will maintain or cause to be maintained replacement value casualty insurance on the Collateral under such policies of insurance, with such insurance companies, in such amounts, with such deductibles, and covering such risks as are at all times carried or maintained under similar circumstances by Persons of established reputation engaged in similar businesses. Each such policy of insurance shall (i) name Collateral Agent, on behalf of Lenders as an additional insured thereunder as its interests may appear, and (ii) in the case of each casualty insurance policy, contain a loss payable clause or endorsement, satisfactory in form and substance to Collateral Agent, that names Collateral Agent, on behalf of Secured Parties as the loss payee thereunder and provides for at least thirty (30) days' prior written notice to Collateral Agent of any modification or cancellation of such policy. 5.6 INSPECTIONS. Each Credit Party will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, permit any authorized representatives designated by any Lender to visit and inspect any of the properties of any Credit Party and any of its respective Subsidiaries, to inspect, copy and take extracts from its and their financial and accounting records, and to discuss its and their affairs, finances and accounts with its and their officers and independent public accountants, all upon reasonable notice and at such reasonable times during normal business hours and as often as may reasonably be requested. 5.7 LENDERS MEETINGS. Company and its Subsidiaries will, upon the request of Administrative Agent or Requisite Lenders, participate in a meeting of Administrative Agent and Lenders once during each Fiscal Year to be held at Company's corporate offices (or at such other location as may be agreed to by Company and Administrative Agent) at such time as may be agreed to by Company and Administrative Agent. 5.8 COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS. Each Credit Party will comply, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries and all other Persons, if any, on or occupying any Facilities to comply, with the requirements of all applicable laws, rules, regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority (including all Environmental Laws), noncompliance with which could reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. 5.9 ENVIRONMENTAL. (a) Environmental Disclosure. Company will deliver to Administrative Agent and Lenders: (i) as soon as practicable following receipt thereof, copies of all environmental audits, investigations, analyses and reports of any kind or character, whether prepared by personnel of Company or any of its Subsidiaries or by independent consultants, governmental authorities or any other Persons, 69 with respect to significant environmental matters at any Facility or with respect to any Environmental Claims; (ii) promptly upon the occurrence thereof, written notice describing in reasonable detail (1) any Release required to be reported to any federal, state or local governmental or regulatory agency under any applicable Environmental Laws, (2) any remedial action taken by Company or any other Person in response to (A) any Hazardous Materials Activities the existence of which has a reasonable possibility of resulting in one or more Environmental Claims having, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, or (B) any Environmental Claims that, individually or in the aggregate, have a reasonable possibility of resulting in a Material Adverse Effect, and (3) Company or any Subsidiary's discovery of any occurrence or condition on any real property adjoining or in the vicinity of any Facility that could cause such Facility or any part thereof to be subject to any material restrictions on the ownership, occupancy, transferability or use thereof under any Environmental Laws; (iii) as soon as practicable following the sending or receipt thereof by Company or any of its Subsidiaries, a copy of any and all written communications with respect to (1) any Environmental Claims that, individually or in the aggregate, have a reasonable possibility of giving rise to a Material Adverse Effect, (2) any Release required to be reported to any federal, state or local governmental or regulatory agency, and (3) any request for information from any governmental agency that suggests such agency is investigating whether Company or any of its Subsidiaries may be potentially responsible for any Hazardous Materials Activity; (iv) prompt written notice describing in reasonable detail (1) any proposed acquisition of stock, assets, or property by Company or any of its Subsidiaries that could reasonably be expected to (A) expose Company or any of its Subsidiaries to, or result in, Environmental Claims that could reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect or (B) affect the ability of Company or any of its Subsidiaries to maintain in full force and effect all material Governmental Authorizations required under any Environmental Laws for their respective operations and (2) any proposed action to be taken by Company or any of its Subsidiaries to modify current operations in a manner that could reasonably be expected to subject Company or any of its Subsidiaries to any additional material obligations or requirements under any Environmental Laws; and (v) with reasonable promptness, such other documents and information as from time to time may be reasonably requested by Administrative Agent in relation to any matters disclosed pursuant to this Section 5.9(a). (b) Hazardous Materials Activities, Etc. Each Credit Party shall promptly take, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries promptly to take, any and all actions necessary to (i) cure any violation of applicable Environmental Laws by such 70 Credit Party or its Subsidiaries that could reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, and (ii) make an appropriate response to any Environmental Claim against such Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries and discharge any obligations it may have to any Person thereunder where failure to do so could reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. (c) Right of Access and Inspection. With respect to any event described in Section 5.9(a), or if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, or if Administrative Agent reasonably believes that Company or any Subsidiary has breached any representation, warranty or covenant related to environmental matters (including those contained in Sections 4.11, 4.14, 5.8 or 5.9): (i) Administrative Agent and its representatives shall have the right, but not the obligation or duty, to enter the Facilities at reasonable times for the purposes of observing the Facilities. Such access shall include, at the reasonable request of Administrative Agent, access to relevant documents and employees of Company and its Subsidiaries and to their outside representatives, to the extent necessary to obtain necessary information related to the event at issue. If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Credit Parties shall conduct such tests and investigations on the Facilities or relevant portion thereof, as reasonably requested by Administrative Agent, including the preparation of such sampling or analysis as determined to be necessary under the circumstances by a qualified environmental engineer or consultant. If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, and if a Credit Party does not undertake such tests and investigations in a reasonably timely manner following the request of Administrative Agent, Administrative Agent may hire an independent engineer, at the Credit Parties' expense, to conduct such tests and investigations. Administrative Agent will make all reasonable efforts to conduct any such tests and investigations so as to avoid interfering with the operation of the Facility. (ii) Any observations, tests or investigations of the Facilities by or on behalf of Administrative Agent shall be solely for the purpose of protecting the Lenders security interests and rights under the Credit Documents. The exercise of Administrative Agent's rights under this Subsection (c) shall not constitute a waiver of any default of any Credit Party or impose any liability on Administrative Agent or any of the Lenders. In no event will any observation, test or investigation by or on behalf of Administrative Agent be a representation that Hazardous Materials are or are not present in, on or under any of the Facilities, or that there has been or will be compliance with any Environmental Law and Administrative Agent shall not be deemed to have made any representation or warranty to any party regarding the truth, accuracy or completeness of any report or findings with regard thereto. Neither any Credit Party nor any other party is entitled to rely on any observation, test or investigation by or on behalf of Administrative Agent. Administrative Agent and the Lenders owe no duty of care to protect any Credit Party or any other party against, or to inform any Credit Party or any other party of, any Hazardous 71 Materials or any other adverse condition affecting any of the Facilities. Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, disclose to the applicable Credit Party, or to any other party if so required by law, any report or findings made as a result of, or in connection with, its observations, tests or investigations. If a request is made of Administrative Agent to disclose any such report or finding to any third party, then Administrative Agent shall endeavor to give the applicable Credit Party prior notice of such disclosure and afford such Credit Party the opportunity to object or defend against such disclosure at its own and sole cost; provided, that the failure of Administrative Agent to give any such notice or afford such Credit Party the opportunity to object or defend against such disclosure shall not result in any liability to Administrative Agent. Each Credit Party acknowledges that it may be obligated to notify relevant Governmental Authorities regarding the results of any observation, test or investigation disclosed to such Credit Party, and that such reporting requirements are site and fact-specific and are to be evaluated by such Credit Party without advice or assistance from Administrative Agent. (d) Privileged Materials. If counsel to Company or any of its Subsidiaries reasonably determines (1) that provision to Administrative Agent of a document otherwise required to be provided pursuant to this Section 5.9 (or any other provision of this Agreement or any other Credit Document relating to environmental matters) would jeopardize an applicable attorney-client or work product privilege pertaining to such document, then Company or its Subsidiary shall not be obligated to deliver such document to Administrative Agent but shall provide Administrative Agent with a notice identifying the author and recipient of such document and generally describing the contents of the document. Upon request of Administrative Agent, Company and its Subsidiaries shall take all reasonable steps necessary to provide Administrative Agent with the factual information contained in any such privileged document. 5.10 SUBSIDIARIES. In the event that any Person becomes a Domestic Subsidiary of Company, Company shall (a) concurrently with such Person becoming a Domestic Subsidiary cause such Domestic Subsidiary to become a Guarantor hereunder, a Grantor under the Pledge and Security Agreement and an Other Obligor under the Subordination Agreement by executing and delivering to Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent a Counterpart Agreement, and (b) take all such actions and execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, all such documents, instruments, agreements, and certificates as are similar to those described in Sections 3.1(b), 3.1(h), 3.1(j), 3.1(l) and, to the extent applicable, Section 5.11, and shall cause such Subsidiary to become a party to the Intercompany Note pursuant to documentation reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent. In the event that any Person becomes a Foreign Subsidiary of Company, and the ownership interests of such Foreign Subsidiary are owned by Company or by any Domestic Subsidiary thereof, Company shall, or shall cause such Domestic Subsidiary to, deliver, all such documents, instruments, agreements, and certificates as are similar to those described in Sections 3.1(b), and Company shall take, or shall cause such Domestic Subsidiary to take, all of the actions referred to in Section 3.1(h)(i) necessary to grant and to perfect a First Priority Lien in favor of Collateral Agent, for the benefit of Secured 72 Parties, under the Pledge and Security Agreement in 65% of such ownership interests. With respect to each such Subsidiary, Company shall promptly send to Administrative Agent written notice setting forth with respect to such Person (i) the date on which such Person became a Subsidiary of Company, and (ii) all of the data required to be set forth in Schedules 4.1 and 4.2 with respect to all Subsidiaries of Company; provided, such written notice shall be deemed to supplement Schedule 4.1 and 4.2 for all purposes hereof. 5.11 REAL ESTATE ASSETS. (a) With respect to each Leasehold Property identified on Schedule 5.11 hereto, Company and each Credit Party party to the relevant lease shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered prior to the date that is sixty days after the Closing Date (and to the extent not delivered on or prior to such date, to cause the same to be executed and delivered as soon as practicable thereafter), leasehold Mortgages and such landlord consents and estoppels, opinions of counsel, title insurance policies and reports, surveys, flood insurance, ALTA title insurance, flood insurance (to the extent required) in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Collateral Agent and such other documents and instruments with respect thereto (including environmental reports) that Collateral Agent shall reasonably request to create in favor of Collateral Agent, for the benefit of Secured Parties, a valid and, subject to any filing and/or recording referred to herein, perfected First Priority security interest in such Leasehold Property and to protect and confirm the leasehold estate subject to the same (and Collateral Agent's interest therein). (b) In the event that any Credit Party acquires a Material Real Estate Asset or a Real Estate Asset owned or leased on the Closing Date becomes a Material Real Estate Asset and such interest has not otherwise been made subject to the Lien of the Collateral Documents in favor of Collateral Agent, for the benefit of Secured Parties, then such Credit Party, contemporaneously with acquiring such Material Real Estate Asset, or promptly after a Real Estate Asset owned or leased on the Closing Date becomes a Material Real Estate Asset, shall take all such actions and execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered, all such Mortgages and such landlord consents and estoppels, opinions of counsel, title insurance policies and reports, surveys, flood insurance, ALTA title insurance, flood insurance (to the extent required) in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Collateral Agent and such other documents and instruments with respect thereto (including environmental reports) that Collateral Agent shall reasonably request to create in favor of Collateral Agent, for the benefit of Secured Parties, a valid and, subject to any filing and/or recording referred to herein, perfected First Priority security interest in such Material Real Estate Asset and to protect and confirm the estate subject to the same. In addition, in the event that any Credit Party acquires any Leasehold Property after the Closing Date, it shall promptly (and in any event within ten Business Days of entering into the lease relating to such Leasehold Property), deliver to Collateral Agent a Landlord Personal Property Collateral Access Agreement duly executed by the landlord of such Leasehold Property and the applicable Credit Party. 73 (c) In addition to the foregoing, Company shall, at the request of Requisite Lenders, deliver, from time to time, to Administrative Agent such appraisals as are required by law or regulation of Real Estate Assets with respect to which Collateral Agent has been granted a Lien. 5.12 INTEREST RATE PROTECTION. No later than thirty days following the Closing Date and at all times thereafter, Company shall maintain, or caused to be maintained, in effect one or more Interest Rate Agreements (constituting caps or collars) in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent, which Interest Rate Agreements shall effectively limit the Unadjusted LIBOR Rate Component of the interest costs to Company with respect to an aggregate notional principal amount of not less than 70% of the aggregate principal amount of the Term Loan outstanding from time to time (based on the assumption that such notional principal amount was a LIBOR Rate Loan with an Interest Period of three months) for the period commencing 90 days after the Closing Date and ending on the Term Loan Maturity Date to a rate equal to not more than 6.5% per annum. 5.13 FURTHER ASSURANCES. At any time or from time to time upon the request of Administrative Agent, each Credit Party will, at its expense, promptly execute, acknowledge and deliver such further documents and do such other acts and things as Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent may reasonably request in order to effect fully the purposes of the Credit Documents, including providing Lenders with any information reasonably requested pursuant to Section 10.21. In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, each Credit Party shall take such actions as Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent may reasonably request from time to time to ensure that the Obligations are guarantied by the Guarantors and are secured by substantially all of the assets of Company, and its Subsidiaries and all of the outstanding Capital Stock of Company and its Subsidiaries (subject to limitations contained in the Credit Documents with respect to Foreign Subsidiaries). 5.14 CASH MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS. Company and its Subsidiaries shall establish and maintain cash management systems reasonably acceptable to Administrative Agent, including, without limitation, with respect to blocked account arrangements. 5.15 POST CLOSING MATTERS. Company shall, and shall cause each of the Credit Parties to, satisfy the requirements set forth on Schedule 5.15 on or before the date specified for such requirement or such later date to be determined by Administrative Agent. 5.16 BOOKS. Company shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, keep adequate books of record and account, in which complete entries shall be made of all financial transactions and the assets and business of Company and each such Subsidiary. Company shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, account for all amounts paid to or on behalf of each other (including, without limitation, all transfers of cash, near-cash items and other assets and all payments by Company or any of its Subsidiaries of payroll, rent, taxes, accounts payable or other obligations on behalf of Company or another Subsidiary) to be accounted for as intercompany indebtedness (or repayments of 74 existing intercompany indebtedness between such parties) evidenced by the Intercompany Note. 5.17 ATLANTIC EXISTING CREDIT FACILITY. If Company shall not have repaid in full all amounts outstanding under the Atlantic Existing Credit Facility within 75 days of the Closing Date from the proceeds of an equity offering that it is permitted to retain under the terms hereof, Company shall notify Administrative Agent on or prior to the next succeeding Business Day that the Atlantic Existing Credit Facility is still outstanding and the amount of principal, interest (including a calculation of per diem interest that will accrue thereunder after such date) and other amounts outstanding thereunder (the aggregate of such amounts as of any day being the "AECF OUTSTANDINGS"). In the event one or more Lenders (or their respective Affiliates) offer to provide new loans in an aggregate amount at least equal to the AECF Outstandings on substantially the same terms and conditions applicable to the Term Loans hereunder (such loans being the "ADDITIONAL LOANS"), Company agrees (i) that it will borrow the Additional Loans on or prior to the date that is 89 days after the Closing Date and apply the proceeds of such loans to repay the AECF Outstandings in full and (ii) contemporaneously with its borrowing of the Additional Loans, it will issue warrants (substantially in the form of the Warrants) the lenders providing the Additional Loans or their designees exercisable for 1% of the fully-diluted common equity of Company (or, to the event that the AECF Outstandings are then less than the amount that would have been outstanding on such date had no other prepayment thereon been made after the Closing Date, a ratable portion of such warrants). 5.18 ATLANTIC TERM LOAN FACILITY. To the extent of the remaining commitment thereunder, Company shall request a borrowing under the Atlantic Term Loan Agreement equal to the lesser of (i) $500,000 and (ii) the remaining commitments under the Atlantic Term Loan Agreement at any time the sum of (x) Company's cash on hand plus (y) its undrawn availability under the Revolving Commitments is less than $750,000 as of the close of business on any Monday. SECTION 6. NEGATIVE COVENANTS Each Credit Party covenants and agrees that, so long as any Commitment is in effect and until payment in full of all Obligations, it shall perform, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to perform, all covenants in this Section 6. 6.1 INDEBTEDNESS. No Credit Party shall, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume or guaranty, or otherwise become or remain directly or indirectly liable with respect to any Indebtedness, except: (a) the Obligations; (b) Indebtedness of any Guarantor to Company or to any other Guarantor, or of Company to any Guarantor; provided, (i) all such Indebtedness shall be evidenced by promissory notes and all such notes shall be subject to a First Priority Lien 75 pursuant to the Pledge and Security Agreement, (ii) all such Indebtedness shall be unsecured and subordinated in right of payment to the payment in full of the Obligations pursuant to the terms of the applicable promissory notes or an intercompany subordination agreement that in any such case, is reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent, and (iii) any payment by any such Guarantor under any guaranty of the Obligations shall result in a pro tanto reduction of the amount of any Indebtedness owed by such Subsidiary to Company or to any of its Subsidiaries for whose benefit such payment is made; (c) Subordinated Indebtedness; (d) Indebtedness incurred by Company or any of its Subsidiaries arising from agreements providing for indemnification, adjustment of purchase price or similar obligations, incurred in connection with permitted dispositions of any business, assets or Company or any of its Subsidiaries permitted hereunder; (e) Indebtedness which may be deemed to exist pursuant to any guaranties, performance, surety, statutory, appeal or similar obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business; (f) Indebtedness in respect of netting services, overdraft protections and otherwise in connection with deposit accounts; (g) Performance guaranties in the ordinary course of business and consistent with historic practices of the obligations of suppliers, customers, franchisees and licensees of Company and its Subsidiaries; (h) guaranties by Company of Indebtedness of a Guarantor or guaranties by a Subsidiary of Company of Indebtedness of Company or a Guarantor with respect, in each case, to Indebtedness otherwise permitted to be incurred pursuant to this Section 6.1; (i) Indebtedness described in Schedule 6.1, but not any extensions, renewals or replacements of such Indebtedness except (i) renewals and extensions expressly provided for in the agreements evidencing any such Indebtedness as the same are in effect on the date of this Agreement, and (ii) refinancings and extensions of any such Indebtedness if the terms and conditions thereof, including those relating to amortization, maturity, collateral and subordination, are not less favorable to the obligor thereon or to the Lenders than the Indebtedness being refinanced or extended and the average life to maturity thereof is greater than or equal to that of the Indebtedness being refinanced or extended; provided, such Indebtedness permitted under the immediately preceding clause (i) or (ii) above shall not (A) include Indebtedness of an obligor that was not an obligor with respect to the Indebtedness being extended, renewed or refinanced, (B) exceed in a principal amount the Indebtedness being renewed, extended or refinanced, or (C) be incurred, created or assumed if any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom; 76 (j) Indebtedness with respect to Capital Leases; provided, the principal amount of such Indebtedness, when aggregated with the principal amount of all Indebtedness incurred under clause (k) below, shall not exceed at any time $4,000,000; (k) purchase money Indebtedness; provided, (i) any such Indebtedness (A) shall be secured only to the asset acquired in connection with the incurrence of such Indebtedness, and (B) shall constitute not less than 95% of the aggregate consideration paid with respect to such asset, and (ii) the aggregate amount of all such Indebtedness, when aggregated with the principal amount of all Indebtedness incurred under clause (j) above, shall not exceed at any time $4,000,000; (l) unsecured Indebtedness under Interest Rate Agreements and Currency Agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business and not for speculative purposes; and (m) other unsecured Indebtedness of Company and its Subsidiaries, which is unsecured and subordinated to the Obligations in a manner satisfactory to Administrative Agent in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time $250,000. 6.2 LIENS. No Credit Party shall, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Lien on or with respect to any property or asset of any kind (including any document or instrument in respect of goods or accounts receivable) of Company or any of its Subsidiaries, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or any income or profits therefrom, or file or permit the filing of, or permit to remain in effect, any financing statement or other similar notice of any Lien with respect to any such property, asset, income or profits under the UCC of any state or under any similar recording or notice statute, except: (a) Liens in favor of Collateral Agent for the benefit of Secured Parties granted pursuant to any Credit Document; (b) Liens for Taxes if obligations with respect to such Taxes are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings promptly instituted and diligently conducted so long as such reserves or other appropriate provisions, if any, as shall be required by GAAP shall have been made for any such contested amounts; (c) statutory Liens of landlords, banks (and rights of set off), of carriers, warehousemen, mechanics, repairmen, workmen and materialmen, and other Liens imposed by law (other than any such Lien imposed pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) or 412(n) of the Internal Revenue Code or by ERISA), in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business (i) for amounts not yet overdue, or (ii) for amounts that are overdue and that (in the case of any such amounts overdue for a period in excess of five days) are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, so long as such reserves or other appropriate provisions, if any, as shall be required by GAAP shall have been made for any such contested amounts; 77 (d) Liens incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with workers' compensation, unemployment insurance and other types of social security, or to secure the performance of tenders, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, bids, leases, government contracts, trade contracts, performance and return of money bonds and other similar obligations (exclusive of obligations for the payment of borrowed money or other Indebtedness), so long as no foreclosure, sale or similar proceedings have been commenced with respect to any portion of the Collateral on account thereof; (e) easements, rights of way, restrictions, encroachments, and other minor defects or irregularities in title, in each case which do not and will not interfere in any material respect with the ordinary conduct of the business of Company or any of its Subsidiaries; (f) any interest or title of a lessor or sublessor under any lease of real estate permitted hereunder; (g) Liens solely on any cash earnest money deposits made by Company or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with any letter of intent or purchase agreement permitted hereunder; (h) purported Liens evidenced by the filing of precautionary UCC financing statements relating solely to operating leases of personal property entered into in the ordinary course of business; (i) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law to secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods; (j) any zoning or similar law or right reserved to or vested in any governmental office or agency to control or regulate the use of any real property, in each case which do not will not interfere with or affect in any material respect the use, value or operations thereof or the ordinary conduct of the business of Company or such Subsidiary; (k) licenses of patents, trademarks and other intellectual property rights granted by Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business and not interfering in any respect with the ordinary conduct of the business of Holdings or such Subsidiary; (l) Liens described in Schedule 6.2; (m) Liens on the assets of Siterock Corporation securing $177,100.18 (plus any additional interest that shall have accrued thereon since February 8, 2006) in obligations paid to the State of California on the Closing Date relating to its unpaid obligations under the California Unemployment Insurance Code and/or Revenue and Taxation Code, provided that such Lien is discharged of record within 30 days of the Closing Date or such later date as to which Administrative Agent may agree; and 78 (n) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 6.1(k); provided, any such Lien shall encumber only the asset acquired with the proceeds of such Indebtedness. 6.3 EQUITABLE LIEN. If any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries shall create or assume any Lien upon any of its properties or assets, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, other than Permitted Liens, it shall make or cause to be made effective provisions whereby the Obligations will be secured by such Lien equally and ratably with any and all other Indebtedness secured thereby as long as any such Indebtedness shall be so secured; provided, notwithstanding the foregoing, this covenant shall not be construed as a consent by Requisite Lenders to the creation or assumption of any such Lien not otherwise permitted hereby. 6.4 NO FURTHER NEGATIVE PLEDGES. Except with respect to (a) specific property encumbered to secure payment of particular Indebtedness or to be sold pursuant to an executed agreement with respect to an Asset Sale permitted under Section 6.8 and (b) restrictions by reason of customary provisions restricting assignments, subletting or other transfers contained in leases, licenses and similar agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business (provided that such restrictions are limited to the property or assets secured by such Liens or the property or assets subject to such leases, licenses or similar agreements, as the case may be) no Credit Party shall, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, enter into any agreement prohibiting the creation or assumption of any Lien upon any of its properties or assets, whether now owned or hereafter acquired. 6.5 RESTRICTED JUNIOR PAYMENTS. No Credit Party shall, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates through any manner or means or through any other Person to, directly or indirectly, declare, order, pay, make or set apart, or agree to declare, order, pay, make or set apart, any sum for any Restricted Junior Payment. 6.6 RESTRICTIONS ON SUBSIDIARY DISTRIBUTIONS. Except as provided herein, no Credit Party shall, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create or otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction of any kind on the ability of any Subsidiary of Company to (a) pay dividends or make any other distributions on any of such Subsidiary's Capital Stock owned by Company or any other Subsidiary of Company, (b) repay or prepay any Indebtedness owed by such Subsidiary to Company or any other Subsidiary of Company, (c) make loans or advances to Company or any other Subsidiary of Company, or (d) transfer any of its property or assets to Company or any other Subsidiary of Company other than restrictions (i) in agreements evidencing Indebtedness permitted by Section 6.1(k) that impose restrictions on the property so acquired, (ii) by reason of customary provisions restricting assignments, subletting or other transfers contained in leases, licenses, joint venture agreements and similar agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business, and (iii) that are or were created by virtue of any transfer of, agreement to transfer or option or right with respect to any property, assets or Capital Stock not otherwise prohibited under this Agreement. No Credit Party shall, nor shall it permit its Subsidiaries to, enter into any Contractual Obligation which would prohibit a Subsidiary of Company from becoming a Credit Party. 79 6.7 INVESTMENTS. No Credit Party shall, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, make or own any Investment in any Person, including without limitation any Joint Venture, except: (a) Investments in Cash and Cash Equivalents; (b) equity Investments owned as of the Closing Date in any Subsidiary and Investments made after the Closing Date in any wholly owned Guarantor of Company; (c) Investments (i) in any Securities received in satisfaction or partial satisfaction thereof from financially troubled account debtors, and (ii) constituting deposits, prepayments and other credits to suppliers made in the ordinary course of business consistent with the past practices of Company and its Subsidiaries; (d) intercompany loans to the extent permitted under Section 6.1(b); (e) Consolidated Capital Expenditures permitted by Section 6.8(d); (f) loans and advances to employees of Company and its Subsidiaries made in the ordinary course of business in an aggregate amount not to exceed $100,000; (g) Investments described in Schedule 6.7; and (h) other Investments in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time $250,000. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall any Credit Party make any Investment which results in or facilitates in any manner any Restricted Junior Payment not otherwise permitted under the terms of Section 6.5. 6.8 FINANCIAL COVENANTS. (a) Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio. Company shall not permit the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio as of the last day of any Fiscal Quarter, beginning with the Fiscal Quarter ending April 30, 2006, to be less than the correlative ratio indicated: FISCAL QUARTER FIXED CHARGE ENDING: COVERAGE RATIO -------------- -------------- April 30, 2006 0.95:1.00 July 31, 2006 1.35:1.00 October 31, 2006 1.45:1.00
80 FISCAL QUARTER FIXED CHARGE ENDING: COVERAGE RATIO -------------- -------------- January 1, 2007 1.50:1.00 April 30, 2007 1.35:1.00 Between (and including) July 31, 1.15:1.00 2007 and July 31, 2008 Between (and including) October 1.20:1.00 31, 2008 and January 1, 2010 On April 30, 2010 and thereafter 1.25:1.00
(b) Leverage Ratio. Company shall not permit the Leverage Ratio as of the last day of any Fiscal Quarter, beginning with the Fiscal Quarter ending April 30, 2006, to exceed the correlative ratio indicated: FISCAL QUARTER LEVERAGE ENDING RATIO -------------- --------- April 30, 2006 5.60:1.00 July 31, 2006 4.95:1.00 October 31, 2006 4.25:1.00 January 1, 2007 3.60:1.00 April 30, 2007 3.25:1.00 July 31, 2007 3.10:1.00 October 31, 2007 2.90:1.00 January 1, 2008 2.80:1.00 April 30, 2008 2.70:1.00 On July 31, 2008 and 2.50:1.00 thereafter
(c) Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA. Company shall not permit Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA as at the end of any Fiscal Quarter, beginning with the Fiscal Quarter ending April 30, 2006, for the four Fiscal Quarter period then ended to be less than the correlative amount indicated: 81 CONSOLIDATED FISCAL QUARTER ADJUSTED EBITDA -------------- --------------- April 30, 2006 $13,100,000 July 31, 2006 $14,900,000 October 31, 2006 $17,500,000 January 31, 2007 $20,400,000 April 30, 2007 $22,400,000 July 31, 2007 $23,100,000 October 31, 2007 $23,300,000 January 31, 2008 $23,600,000 April 30, 2008 $23,800,000 July 31, 2008 $24,100,000 October 31, 2008 $24,900,000 January 31, 2009 $25,500,000 April 30, 2009 $25,900,000 On July 31, 2009 and at $26,000,000 the end of each Fiscal Quarter thereafter
(d) Maximum Consolidated Capital Expenditures. Company shall not, and shall not permit its Subsidiaries to, make or incur Consolidated Capital Expenditures, in any Fiscal Year indicated below, in an aggregate amount for Company and its Subsidiaries in excess of the corresponding amount set forth below opposite such Fiscal Year: CONSOLIDATED FISCAL YEAR ENDING CAPITAL EXPENDITURES - ------------------ -------------------- July 31, 2006 $7,500,000 July 31, 2007 $7,500,000 July 31, 2008 $6,900,000 July 31, 2009 $6,100,000 July 31, 2010 $4,800,000
82 CONSOLIDATED FISCAL YEAR ENDING CAPITAL EXPENDITURES - ------------------ -------------------- July 31, 2011 $3,200,000
(e) Minimum Average Net Bookings. Company shall not permit its Average Net Bookings determined as at the end of any Fiscal Quarter, beginning with the Fiscal Quarter ending April 30, 2006, to be less than $80,000. (f) Certain Calculations. With respect to any period during which an Asset Sale has occurred (each, a "SUBJECT TRANSACTION"), for purposes of determining compliance with the financial covenants set forth in this Section 6.8, Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA and the components of Consolidated Fixed Charges shall be calculated with respect to such period on a pro forma basis (including pro forma adjustments approved by Administrative Agent in its sole discretion) using the historical audited financial statements of any business so acquired or to be acquired or sold or to be sold and the consolidated financial statements of Company and its Subsidiaries which shall be reformulated as if such Subject Transaction, and any Indebtedness incurred or repaid in connection therewith, had been consummated or incurred or repaid at the beginning of such period (and assuming that such Indebtedness bears interest during any portion of the applicable measurement period prior to the relevant acquisition at the weighted average of the interest rates applicable to outstanding Loans incurred during such period). 6.9 FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES; DISPOSITION OF ASSETS; ACQUISITIONS. No Credit Party shall, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, enter into 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), exchange, transfer or otherwise dispose of, in one transaction or a series of transactions, all or any part of its business, assets or property of any kind whatsoever, whether real, personal or mixed and whether tangible or intangible, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or acquired by purchase or otherwise (other than purchases or other acquisitions of inventory, materials and equipment and Capital Expenditures in the ordinary course of business) the business, property or fixed assets of, or stock or other evidence of beneficial ownership of, any Person or any division or line of business or other business unit of any Person, except: (a) any Subsidiary of Company may be merged with or into Company or any Guarantor, or be liquidated, wound up or dissolved, or all or any part of its business, property or assets may be conveyed, sold, leased, transferred or otherwise disposed of, in one transaction or a series of transactions, to Company or any Guarantor; provided, in the case of such a merger, Company or such Guarantor, as applicable shall be the continuing or surviving Person; (b) sales or other dispositions of assets (i) that do not constitute Asset Sales or (ii) made to Company or any Guarantor Subsidiary; 83 (c) Asset Sales, the proceeds of which (i) are less than $150,000 with respect to any single Asset Sale or series of related Asset Sales, and (ii) when aggregated with the proceeds of all other Asset Sales made within the same Fiscal Year, are less than $250,000; provided (1) the consideration received for such assets shall be in an amount at least equal to the fair market value thereof (determined in good faith by the board of directors of Company (or similar governing body)), (2) no less than 100% thereof shall be paid in Cash, and (3) the Net Asset Sale Proceeds thereof shall be applied as required by Section 2.13(a); (d) disposals of obsolete or worn out property; and (e) Investments made in accordance with Section 6.7. 6.10 DISPOSAL OF SUBSIDIARY INTERESTS. Except for any sale of all of its interests in the Capital Stock of any of its Subsidiaries in compliance with the provisions of Section 6.9, no Credit Party shall, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, (a) directly or indirectly sell, assign, pledge or otherwise encumber or dispose of any Capital Stock of any of its Subsidiaries, except to qualify directors if required by applicable law; or (b) directly or indirectly to sell, assign, pledge or otherwise encumber or dispose of any Capital Stock of any of its Subsidiaries, except to another Credit Party (subject to the restrictions on such disposition otherwise imposed hereunder), or to qualify directors if required by applicable law. 6.11 SALES AND LEASE BACKS. No Credit Party shall, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, become or remain liable as lessee or as a guarantor or other surety with respect to any lease of any property (whether real, personal or mixed), whether now owned or hereafter acquired, which such Credit Party (a) has sold or transferred or is to sell or to transfer to any other Person (other than Company or any of its Subsidiaries), or (b) intends to use for substantially the same purpose as any other property which has been or is to be sold or transferred by such Credit Party to any Person (other than Company or any of its Subsidiaries) in connection with such lease. 6.12 TRANSACTIONS WITH SHAREHOLDERS AND AFFILIATES. No Credit Party shall, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, enter into or permit to exist any transaction (including the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of any property or the rendering of any service) with any holder of 5% or more of any class of Capital Stock of Company or any of its Subsidiaries or with any Affiliate of Company or of any such holder, except in the ordinary course of business and on terms that are less favorable to Company or that Subsidiary, as the case may be, than those that might be obtained at the time from a Person who is not such a holder or Affiliate; provided, the foregoing restriction shall not apply to (a) any transaction between Company and any Guarantor; (b) reasonable and customary fees paid to members of the board of directors (or similar governing body) of Company and its Subsidiaries; (c) compensation arrangements for officers and other employees of Company and its Subsidiaries entered into in the ordinary course of business; and (d) transactions described in Schedule 6.12; Company shall disclose in writing each transaction with any holder of 5% or more of any class of Capital 84 Stock of Company or any of its Subsidiaries or with any Affiliate of Company or of any such holder to Administrative Agent. 6.13 CONDUCT OF BUSINESS. From and after the Closing Date, no Credit Party shall, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, engage in any business other than (i) the businesses engaged in by such Credit Party on the Closing Date, and (ii) such other lines of business as may be consented to by Administrative Agent and Requisite Lenders. 6.14 PERMITTED ACTIVITIES OF COMPANY. Company shall not fail to hold itself out to the public as a legal entity separate and distinct from all other Persons. 6.15 SEVERANCE AND BENEFIT PLANS. No Credit Party may amend or modify its employee severance plans from those set forth as Exhibit M hereto without the prior written consent of the Requisite Lenders. No Credit Party may pay or provide any severance benefits to employees that are party to separation agreements with a Credit Party on the Closing Date in excess of those summarized on a schedule delivered to Administrative Agent on the Closing Date, nor may they pay or provide any severance benefits to other employees other than in conformity with the employee severance plans identified on Exhibit M. No Credit Party may issue employee stock compensation other than in accordance with the stock incentive plan set forth on Exhibit N hereto (as the same may be amended with the written consent of the Required Lenders). 6.16 AMENDMENTS OR WAIVERS OF WITH RESPECT TO SUBORDINATED INDEBTEDNESS. No Credit Party shall, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, amend or otherwise change the terms of any Subordinated Indebtedness, or make any payment under or with respect thereto that is not permitted under the terms of the Subordination Agreement. 6.17 FISCAL YEAR. No Credit Party shall, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to change its Fiscal Year end from July 31. 6.18 DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS. No Credit Party shall establish or maintain a Deposit Account that is not a Blocked Account and no Credit Party will deposit proceeds in a Deposit Account which is not a Blocked Account. 6.19 AMENDMENTS TO ORGANIZATIONAL AGREEMENTS AND MATERIAL CONTRACTS. No Credit Party shall (a) amend or permit any amendments to any Credit Party's Organizational Documents; or (b) amend or permit any amendments to, or terminate or waive any provision of, any Material Contract if such amendment, termination, or waiver would be adverse to Administrative Agent or the Lenders. 6.20 PREPAYMENTS OF CERTAIN INDEBTEDNESS. No Credit Party shall, directly or indirectly, voluntarily purchase, redeem, defease or prepay any principal of, premium, if any, interest or other amount payable in respect of any Indebtedness prior to its scheduled maturity, other than (i) the Obligations, (ii) Indebtedness secured by a Permitted Liens if the asset securing such Indebtedness has been sold or otherwise disposed of in accordance with Section 6.9, (iii) repayment of amounts owing under the under those two unsecured promissory notes dated June 13, 2002 issued by ClearBlue Technologies Management, Inc. ("CBTM") to Applied Theory Corporation in an aggregate principal 85 amount of $6,000,000 with Term Loan proceeds deposited in the account subject to the Escrow Agreement provided, that (A) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or shall result therefrom and (B) (1) such Term Loan proceeds are loaned by Company to CBTM, (2) CBTM shall have executed and delivered a promissory note to Company (in form and substance satisfactory to Administrative Agent) to evidence such loan and (3) the original of such note shall have been pledged and delivered by Company to Administrative Agent (together with any necessary endorsement) under the Pledge and Security Agreement and (iv) prepayments of amounts outstanding under the Atlantic Existing Credit Facility permitted under the Subordination Agreement or made with proceeds of Additional Loans. SECTION 7. GUARANTY 7.1 GUARANTY OF THE OBLIGATIONS. Subject to the provisions of Section 7.2, Guarantors jointly and severally hereby irrevocably and unconditionally guaranty to Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of the Beneficiaries the due and punctual payment in full of all Obligations when the same shall become due, whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise (including amounts that would become due but for the operation of the automatic stay under Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. Section 362(a)) (collectively, the "GUARANTEED OBLIGATIONS"). 7.2 CONTRIBUTION BY GUARANTORS. All Guarantors desire to allocate among themselves (collectively, the "CONTRIBUTING GUARANTORS"), in a fair and equitable manner, their obligations arising under this Guaranty. Accordingly, in the event any payment or distribution is made on any date by a Guarantor (a "FUNDING GUARANTOR") under this Guaranty such that its Aggregate Payments exceeds its Fair Share as of such date, such Funding Guarantor shall be entitled to a contribution from each of the other Contributing Guarantors in an amount sufficient to cause each Contributing Guarantor's Aggregate Payments to equal its Fair Share as of such date. "FAIR SHARE" means, with respect to a Contributing Guarantor as of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) the ratio of (i) the Fair Share Contribution Amount with respect to such Contributing Guarantor, to (ii) the aggregate of the Fair Share Contribution Amounts with respect to all Contributing Guarantors multiplied by, (b) the aggregate amount paid or distributed on or before such date by all Funding Guarantors under this Guaranty in respect of the obligations Guaranteed. "FAIR SHARE CONTRIBUTION AMOUNT" means, with respect to a Contributing Guarantor as of any date of determination, the maximum aggregate amount of the obligations of such Contributing Guarantor under this Guaranty that would not render its obligations hereunder or thereunder subject to avoidance as a fraudulent transfer or conveyance under Section 548 of Title 11 of the United States Code or any comparable applicable provisions of state law; provided, solely for purposes of calculating the "FAIR SHARE CONTRIBUTION AMOUNT" with respect to any Contributing Guarantor for purposes of this Section 7.2, any assets or liabilities of such Contributing Guarantor arising by virtue of any rights to subrogation, reimbursement or indemnification or any rights to or obligations of contribution hereunder shall not be considered as assets or liabilities of such Contributing Guarantor. "AGGREGATE PAYMENTS" means, with respect to a Contributing Guarantor as of any date of 86 determination, an amount equal to (1) the aggregate amount of all payments and distributions made on or before such date by such Contributing Guarantor in respect of this Guaranty (including, without limitation, in respect of this Section 7.2), minus (2) the aggregate amount of all payments received on or before such date by such Contributing Guarantor from the other Contributing Guarantors as contributions under this Section 7.2. The amounts payable as contributions hereunder shall be determined as of the date on which the related payment or distribution is made by the applicable Funding Guarantor. The allocation among Contributing Guarantors of their obligations as set forth in this Section 7.2 shall not be construed in any way to limit the liability of any Contributing Guarantor hereunder. Each Guarantor is a third party beneficiary to the contribution agreement set forth in this Section 7.2. 7.3 PAYMENT BY GUARANTORS. Subject to Section 7.2, Guarantors hereby jointly and severally agree, in furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right which any Beneficiary may have at law or in equity against any Guarantor by virtue hereof, that upon the failure of Company to pay any of the Guaranteed Obligations when and as the same shall become due, whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise (including amounts that would become due but for the operation of the automatic stay under Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. Section 362(a)), Guarantors will upon demand pay, or cause to be paid, in Cash, to Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of Beneficiaries, an amount equal to the sum of the unpaid principal amount of all Guaranteed Obligations then due as aforesaid, accrued and unpaid interest on such Guaranteed Obligations (including interest which, but for Company's becoming the subject of a case under the Bankruptcy Code, would have accrued on such Guaranteed Obligations, whether or not a claim is allowed against Company for such interest in the related bankruptcy case) and all other Guaranteed Obligations then owed to Beneficiaries as aforesaid. 7.4 LIABILITY OF GUARANTORS ABSOLUTE. Each Guarantor agrees that its obligations hereunder are irrevocable, absolute, independent and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance which constitutes a legal or equitable discharge of a guarantor or surety other than payment in full of the Guaranteed Obligations. In furtherance of the foregoing and without limiting the generality thereof, each Guarantor agrees as follows: (a) this Guaranty is a guaranty of payment when due and not of collectability. This Guaranty is a primary obligation of each Guarantor and not merely a contract of surety; (b) Administrative Agent may enforce this Guaranty upon the occurrence of an Event of Default notwithstanding the existence of any dispute between Company and any Beneficiary with respect to the existence of such Event of Default; (c) the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are independent of the obligations of Company and the obligations of any other guarantor (including any other Guarantor) of the obligations of Company, and a separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted against such Guarantor whether or not any action is brought 87 against Company or any of such other guarantors and whether or not Company is joined in any such action or actions; (d) payment by any Guarantor of a portion, but not all, of the Guaranteed Obligations shall in no way limit, affect, modify or abridge any Guarantor's liability for any portion of the Guaranteed Obligations which has not been paid. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if Administrative Agent is awarded a judgment in any suit brought to enforce any Guarantor's covenant to pay a portion of the Guaranteed Obligations, such judgment shall not be deemed to release such Guarantor from its covenant to pay the portion of the Guaranteed Obligations that is not the subject of such suit, and such judgment shall not, except to the extent satisfied by such Guarantor, limit, affect, modify or abridge any other Guarantor's liability hereunder in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations; (e) any Beneficiary, upon such terms as it deems appropriate, without notice or demand and without affecting the validity or enforceability hereof or giving rise to any reduction, limitation, impairment, discharge or termination of any Guarantor's liability hereunder, from time to time may (i) renew, extend, accelerate, increase the rate of interest on, or otherwise change the time, place, manner or terms of payment of the Guaranteed Obligations; (ii) settle, compromise, release or discharge, or accept or refuse any offer of performance with respect to, or substitutions for, the Guaranteed Obligations or any agreement relating thereto and/or subordinate the payment of the same to the payment of any other obligations; (iii) request and accept other guaranties of the Guaranteed Obligations and take and hold security for the payment hereof or the Guaranteed Obligations; (iv) release, surrender, exchange, substitute, compromise, settle, rescind, waive, alter, subordinate or modify, with or without consideration, any security for payment of the Guaranteed Obligations, any other guaranties of the Guaranteed Obligations, or any other obligation of any Person (including any other Guarantor) with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations; (v) enforce and apply any security now or hereafter held by or for the benefit of such Beneficiary in respect hereof or the Guaranteed Obligations and direct the order or manner of sale thereof, or exercise any other right or remedy that such Beneficiary may have against any such security, in each case as such Beneficiary in its discretion may determine consistent herewith or any applicable security agreement, including foreclosure on any such security pursuant to one or more judicial or nonjudicial sales, whether or not every aspect of any such sale is commercially reasonable, and even though such action operates to impair or extinguish any right of reimbursement or subrogation or other right or remedy of any Guarantor against Company or any security for the Guaranteed Obligations; and (vi) exercise any other rights available to it under the Credit Documents; and (f) this Guaranty and the obligations of Guarantors hereunder shall be valid and enforceable and shall not be subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment, discharge or termination for any reason (other than payment in full of the Guaranteed Obligations), including the occurrence of any of the following, whether or not any Guarantor shall have had notice or knowledge of any of them: (i) any failure or omission to assert or enforce or agreement or election not to assert or enforce, or the stay or enjoining, by order of court, by operation of law or otherwise, of the exercise or 88 enforcement of, any claim or demand or any right, power or remedy (whether arising under the Credit Documents, at law, in equity or otherwise) with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations or any agreement relating thereto, or with respect to any other guaranty of or security for the payment of the Guaranteed Obligations; (ii) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of, or any consent to departure from, any of the terms or provisions (including provisions relating to events of default) hereof, any of the other Credit Documents or any agreement or instrument executed pursuant thereto, or of any other guaranty or security for the Guaranteed Obligations, in each case whether or not in accordance with the terms hereof or such Credit Document or any agreement relating to such other guaranty or security; (iii) the Guaranteed Obligations, or any agreement relating thereto, at any time being found to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any respect; (iv) the application of payments received from any source (other than payments received pursuant to the other Credit Documents or from the proceeds of any security for the Guaranteed Obligations, except to the extent such security also serves as collateral for indebtedness other than the Guaranteed Obligations) to the payment of indebtedness other than the Guaranteed Obligations, even though any Beneficiary might have elected to apply such payment to any part or all of the Guaranteed Obligations; (v) any Beneficiary's consent to the change, reorganization or termination of the corporate structure or existence of Company or any of its Subsidiaries and to any corresponding restructuring of the Guaranteed Obligations; (vi) any failure to perfect or continue perfection of a security interest in any collateral which secures any of the Guaranteed Obligations; (vii) any defenses, set offs or counterclaims which Company may allege or assert against any Beneficiary in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations, including failure of consideration, breach of warranty, payment, statute of frauds, statute of limitations, accord and satisfaction and usury; and (viii) any other act or thing or omission, or delay to do any other act or thing, which may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of any Guarantor as an obligor in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations. 7.5 WAIVERS BY GUARANTORS. Each Guarantor hereby waives, for the benefit of Beneficiaries: (a) any right to require any Beneficiary, as a condition of payment or performance by such Guarantor, to (i) proceed against Company, any other guarantor (including any other Guarantor) of the Guaranteed Obligations or any other Person, (ii) proceed against or exhaust any security held from Company, any such other guarantor or any other Person, (iii) proceed against or have resort to any balance of any Deposit Account or credit on the books of any Beneficiary in favor of Company or any other Person, or (iv) pursue any other remedy in the power of any Beneficiary whatsoever; (b) any defense arising by reason of the incapacity, lack of authority or any disability or other defense of Company or any other Guarantor including any defense based on or arising out of the lack of validity or the unenforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations or any agreement or instrument relating thereto or by reason of the cessation of the liability of Company or any other Guarantor from any cause other than payment in full of the Guaranteed Obligations; (c) any defense based upon any statute or rule of law which provides that the obligation of a surety must be neither larger in amount nor in other respects more burdensome than that of the principal; (d) any defense based upon any Beneficiary's errors or omissions in the administration of the Guaranteed Obligations, except behavior which amounts to bad faith; (e) (i) any principles or provisions of law, statutory or otherwise, which are or might be in conflict with the terms hereof and any 89 legal or equitable discharge of such Guarantor's obligations hereunder, (ii) the benefit of any statute of limitations affecting such Guarantor's liability hereunder or the enforcement hereof, (iii) any rights to set offs, recoupments and counterclaims, and (iv) promptness, diligence and any requirement that any Beneficiary protect, secure, perfect or insure any security interest or lien or any property subject thereto; (f) notices, demands, presentments, protests, notices of protest, notices of dishonor and notices of any action or inaction, including acceptance hereof, notices of default hereunder, notices of any renewal, extension or modification of the Guaranteed Obligations or any agreement related thereto, notices of any extension of credit to Company and notices of any of the matters referred to in Section 7.4 and any right to consent to any thereof; and (g) any defenses or benefits that may be derived from or afforded by law which limit the liability of or exonerate guarantors or sureties, or which may conflict with the terms hereof. 7.6 GUARANTORS' RIGHTS OF SUBROGATION, CONTRIBUTION, ETC. Until the Guaranteed Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full and the Revolving Commitments shall have terminated, each Guarantor hereby waives any claim, right or remedy, direct or indirect, that such Guarantor now has or may hereafter have against Company or any other Guarantor or any of its assets in connection with this Guaranty or the performance by such Guarantor of its obligations hereunder, in each case whether such claim, right or remedy arises in equity, under contract, by statute, under common law or otherwise and including without limitation (a) any right of subrogation, reimbursement or indemnification that such Guarantor now has or may hereafter have against Company with respect to the Guaranteed Obligations, (b) any right to enforce, or to participate in, any claim, right or remedy that any Beneficiary now has or may hereafter have against Company, and (c) any benefit of, and any right to participate in, any collateral or security now or hereafter held by any Beneficiary. In addition, until the Guaranteed Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full and the Revolving Commitments shall have terminated, each Guarantor shall withhold exercise of any right of contribution such Guarantor may have against any other guarantor (including any other Guarantor) of the Guaranteed Obligations, including, without limitation, any such right of contribution as contemplated by Section 7.2. Each Guarantor further agrees that, to the extent the waiver or agreement to withhold the exercise of its rights of subrogation, reimbursement, indemnification and contribution as set forth herein is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be void or voidable for any reason, any rights of subrogation, reimbursement or indemnification such Guarantor may have against Company or against any collateral or security, and any rights of contribution such Guarantor may have against any such other guarantor, shall be junior and subordinate to any rights any Beneficiary may have against Company, to all right, title and interest any Beneficiary may have in any such collateral or security, and to any right any Beneficiary may have against such other guarantor. If any amount shall be paid to any Guarantor on account of any such subrogation, reimbursement, indemnification or contribution rights at any time when all Guaranteed Obligations shall not have been finally and indefeasibly paid in full, such amount shall be held in trust for Administrative Agent on behalf of Beneficiaries and shall forthwith be paid over to Administrative Agent for the benefit of Beneficiaries to be credited and applied against the Guaranteed Obligations, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with the terms hereof. 90 7.7 SUBORDINATION OF OTHER OBLIGATIONS. Any Indebtedness of Company or any Guarantor now or hereafter held by any Guarantor (the "OBLIGEE GUARANTOR") is hereby subordinated in right of payment to the Guaranteed Obligations, and any such indebtedness collected or received by the Obligee Guarantor after an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing shall be held in trust for Administrative Agent on behalf of Beneficiaries and shall forthwith be paid over to Administrative Agent for the benefit of Beneficiaries to be credited and applied against the Guaranteed Obligations but without affecting, impairing or limiting in any manner the liability of the Obligee Guarantor under any other provision hereof. 7.8 CONTINUING GUARANTY. This Guaranty is a continuing guaranty and shall remain in effect until all of the Guaranteed Obligations shall have been indefeasibly paid in full and the Revolving Commitments shall have terminated. Each Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives any right to revoke this Guaranty as to future transactions giving rise to any Guaranteed Obligations. 7.9 AUTHORITY OF GUARANTORS OR COMPANY. It is not necessary for any Beneficiary to inquire into the capacity or powers of any Guarantor or Company or the officers, directors or any agents acting or purporting to act on behalf of any of them. 7.10 FINANCIAL CONDITION OF COMPANY. Any Credit Extension may be made to Company or continued from time to time, in each case without notice to or authorization from any Guarantor regardless of the financial or other condition of Company at the time of any such grant or continuation. No Beneficiary shall have any obligation to disclose or discuss with any Guarantor its assessment, or any Guarantor's assessment, of the financial condition of Company. Each Guarantor has adequate means to obtain information from Company on a continuing basis concerning the financial condition of Company and its ability to perform its obligations under the Credit Documents, and each Guarantor assumes the responsibility for being and keeping informed of the financial condition of Company and of all circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the Guaranteed Obligations. Each Guarantor hereby waives and relinquishes any duty on the part of any Beneficiary to disclose any matter, fact or thing relating to the business, operations or conditions of Company now known or hereafter known by any Beneficiary. 7.11 BANKRUPTCY, ETC. (a) So long as any Guaranteed Obligations remain outstanding, no Guarantor shall, without the prior written consent of Administrative Agent acting pursuant to the instructions of Requisite Lenders, commence or join with any other Person in commencing any bankruptcy, reorganization or insolvency case or proceeding of or against Company or any other Guarantor. The obligations of Guarantors hereunder shall not be reduced, limited, impaired, discharged, deferred, suspended or terminated by any case or proceeding, voluntary or involuntary, involving the bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, reorganization, liquidation or arrangement of Company or any other Guarantor or by any defense which Company or any other Guarantor may have by reason of the order, decree or decision of any court or administrative body resulting from any such proceeding. 91 (b) Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that any interest on any portion of the Guaranteed Obligations which accrues after the commencement of any case or proceeding referred to in clause (a) above (or, if interest on any portion of the Guaranteed Obligations ceases to accrue by operation of law by reason of the commencement of such case or proceeding, such interest as would have accrued on such portion of the Guaranteed Obligations if such case or proceeding had not been commenced) shall be included in the Guaranteed Obligations because it is the intention of Guarantors and Beneficiaries that the Guaranteed Obligations which are guaranteed by Guarantors pursuant hereto should be determined without regard to any rule of law or order which may relieve Company of any portion of such Guaranteed Obligations. Guarantors will permit any trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, debtor in possession, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person to pay Administrative Agent, or allow the claim of Administrative Agent in respect of, any such interest accruing after the date on which such case or proceeding is commenced. (c) In the event that all or any portion of the Guaranteed Obligations are paid by Company, the obligations of Guarantors hereunder shall continue and remain in full force and effect or be reinstated, as the case may be, in the event that all or any part of such payment(s) are rescinded or recovered directly or indirectly from any Beneficiary as a preference, fraudulent transfer or otherwise, and any such payments which are so rescinded or recovered shall constitute Guaranteed Obligations for all purposes hereunder. 7.12 DISCHARGE OF GUARANTY UPON SALE OF GUARANTOR. If all of the Capital Stock of any Guarantor or any of its successors in interest hereunder shall be sold or otherwise disposed of (including by merger or consolidation) in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof, the Guaranty of such Guarantor or such successor in interest, as the case may be, hereunder shall automatically be discharged and released without any further action by any Beneficiary or any other Person effective as of the time of such Asset Sale. 7.13 TAXES. The provisions of Section 2.19 shall apply, mutatis mutandi, to the Guarantors and payments thereby. SECTION 8. EVENTS OF DEFAULT 8.1 EVENTS OF DEFAULT. If any one or more of the following conditions or events shall occur: (a) Failure to Make Payments When Due. Failure by Company to pay (i) the principal of and premium, if any, on any Loan (other than any Excess Cash Flow payment) whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise; (ii) when due any installment of principal of any Loan, by notice of voluntary prepayment, by mandatory prepayment or otherwise; or (iii) when due any interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount due hereunder and, in the case of any payment described in clauses (ii) or (iii) above, such failure shall continue for three (3) Business Days; or 92 (b) Default in Other Agreements. (i) failure of any Credit Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries to pay when due any principal of or interest on or any other amount payable in respect of one or more other items of Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness referred to in Section 8.1(a)) in an individual principal amount of $250,000 or more in the aggregate beyond the grace period, if any, provided therefor; or (ii) breach or default by any Credit Party with respect to any other material term of (1) one or more items of Indebtedness referred to in clause (i) hereof in the individual or aggregate principal amounts referred to in clause (i) above, or (2) any loan agreement, mortgage, indenture or other agreement relating to such item(s) of Indebtedness, in each case beyond the grace period, if any, provided therefor, if the effect of such breach or default is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of that Indebtedness (or a trustee on behalf of such holder or holders), to cause, that Indebtedness to become or be declared due and payable (or subject to a compulsory repurchase or redeemable) prior to its stated maturity or the stated maturity of any underlying obligation, as the case may be or (iii) any Credit Party shall receive any notice of default with respect to the lease on the data center located at 395 Hudson Street, New York, New York relating to rent in arrearages on the Closing Date or any other writing indicating that the landlord that owns such premises or its mortgagor intends to exercise any rights in connection with such arrearages; or (c) Breach of Certain Covenants. Failure of any Credit Party to perform or comply with any term or condition contained in Section 2.5, Section 5.1, Section 5.2, Section 5.15 or Section 6; or (d) Breach of Representations, etc. Any representation, warranty, certification or other statement made or deemed made by any Credit Party in any Credit Document or in any statement or certificate at any time given by any Credit Party or any of its Subsidiaries in writing pursuant hereto or thereto or in connection herewith or therewith shall be false in any material respect as of the date made or deemed made; or (e) Other Defaults Under Credit Documents, etc. Any Credit Party shall default in the performance of or compliance with any term contained herein or any of the other Credit Documents, other than any such term referred to in any other Section of this Section 8.1, and such default shall not have been remedied or waived within thirty (30) days after the earlier of (i) an officer of such Credit Party becoming aware of such default, or (ii) receipt by Company of notice from Administrative Agent or any Lender of such default; or Atlantic or Atlantic Related Entity shall default in the performance of or compliance with any term contained in any of the Atlantic Debt Documents, the Subordination Agreement or Atlantic Fund Guaranty; or (f) Involuntary Bankruptcy; Appointment of Receiver, etc. (i) A court of competent jurisdiction shall enter a decree or order for relief in respect of Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or, at any time the Atlantic or Atlantic Related Entity has any continuing obligations under the Atlantic Existing Credit Facility, the Atlantic Fund Guaranty, the Atlantic Pledge, the Atlantic Side Letter or the Atlantic Term Loan Agreement (the "ATLANTIC DOCUMENTS"), Atlantic or Atlantic Related Entity) in an 93 involuntary case under the Bankruptcy Code or under any other applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law now or hereafter in effect, which decree or order is not stayed; or any other similar relief shall be granted under any applicable federal or state law; or (ii) an involuntary case shall be commenced against Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or, at any time the Atlantic or Atlantic Related Entity has any continuing obligations under any Atlantic Documents, Atlantic or Atlantic Related Entity) under the Bankruptcy Code or under any other applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law now or hereafter in effect; or a decree or order of a court having jurisdiction in the premises for the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, sequestrator, trustee, custodian or other officer having similar powers over Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or, at any time the Atlantic or Atlantic Related Entity has any continuing obligations under any Atlantic Documents, Atlantic or Atlantic Related Entity), or over all or a substantial part of its property, shall have been entered; or there shall have occurred the involuntary appointment of an interim receiver, trustee or other custodian of Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or, at any time the Atlantic or Atlantic Related Entity has any continuing obligations under any Atlantic Documents, Atlantic or Atlantic Related Entity) for all or a substantial part of its property; or a warrant of attachment, execution or similar process shall have been issued against any substantial part of the property of Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or, at any time the Atlantic or Atlantic Related Entity has any continuing obligations under any Atlantic Documents, Atlantic or Atlantic Related Entity), and any such event described in this clause (ii) shall continue for sixty (60) days without having been dismissed, bonded or discharged; or (g) Voluntary Bankruptcy; Appointment of Receiver, etc. (i) Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or, at any time the Atlantic or Atlantic Related Entity has any continuing obligations under any Atlantic Documents, Atlantic or Atlantic Related Entity) shall have an order for relief entered with respect to it or shall commence a voluntary case under the Bankruptcy Code or under any other applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law now or hereafter in effect, or shall consent to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case, or to the conversion of an involuntary case to a voluntary case, under any such law, or shall consent to the appointment of or taking possession by a receiver, trustee or other custodian for all or a substantial part of its property; or Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or, at any time the Atlantic or Atlantic Related Entity has any continuing obligations under any Atlantic Documents, Atlantic or Atlantic Related Entity) shall make any assignment for the benefit of creditors; or (ii) Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or, at any time the Atlantic or Atlantic Related Entity has any continuing obligations under any Atlantic Documents, Atlantic or Atlantic Related Entity) shall be unable, or shall fail generally, or shall admit in writing its inability, to pay its debts as such debts become due; or the board of directors (or similar governing body) of Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or, at any time the Atlantic or Atlantic Related Entity has any continuing obligations under any Atlantic Documents, Atlantic or Atlantic Related Entity) (or any committee thereof) shall adopt any resolution or otherwise authorize any action to approve any of the actions referred to herein or in Section 8.1(f); or (h) Judgments and Attachments. (i) Any money judgment, writ or warrant of attachment or similar process involving (A) in any individual case an 94 amount in excess of $200,000 or more, in the aggregate (in either case to the extent not adequately covered by insurance as to which a solvent and unaffiliated insurance company has acknowledged coverage) shall be entered or filed against Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective assets and shall remain undischarged, unvacated, unbonded or unstayed for a period of sixty (60) days (or in any event later than five days prior to the date of any proposed sale thereunder); or (ii) any non-monetary judgment shall be entered or filed against Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective assets which has had, or could reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect; or (i) Dissolution. Any order, judgment or decree shall be entered against any Credit Party decreeing the dissolution or split up of such Credit Party and such order shall remain undischarged or unstayed for a period in excess of thirty (30) days; or (j) Employee Benefit Plans. (i) There shall occur one or more ERISA Events which individually or in the aggregate results in or might reasonably be expected to result in liability of Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates in excess of $100,000 during the term hereof; or (ii) there exists any fact or circumstance that reasonably could be expected to result in the imposition of a Lien or security interest under Section 401(a)(29) or 412(n) of the Internal Revenue Code or under ERISA; or (k) Change of Control. A Change of Control shall occur; or (l) Guaranties, Collateral Documents, other Credit Documents, etc. At any time after the execution and delivery thereof, (i) the Guaranty for any reason, other than the satisfaction in full of all Obligations, shall cease to be in full force and effect (other than in accordance with its terms) or shall be declared to be null and void or any Guarantor shall repudiate its obligations thereunder, (ii) this Agreement, the Escrow Agreement or any Collateral Document ceases to be in full force and effect (other than by reason of a release of Collateral in accordance with the terms hereof or thereof or the satisfaction in full of the Obligations in accordance with the terms hereof) or shall be declared null and void, or Collateral Agent shall not have or shall cease to have a valid and perfected Lien in any Collateral purported to be covered by the Collateral Documents with the priority required by the relevant Collateral Document, in each case for any reason other than the failure of Collateral Agent or any Secured Party to take any action within its control, (iii) any of the Atlantic Debt Documents, the Subordination Agreement or Atlantic Fund Guaranty ceases to be in full force and effect or shall be declared null and void, (iv) any Credit Party shall contest the validity or enforceability of any Credit Document in writing or deny in writing that it has any further liability, including with respect to future advances by Lenders, under any Credit Document to which it is a party, (v) Atlantic, Atlantic Related Entity or any Credit Party shall contest the validity or enforceability of any of the Atlantic Debt Documents, the Subordination Agreement or Atlantic Fund Guaranty in writing or deny in writing that it has any further liability, including with respect to future advances under the Atlantic Debt Documents, thereunder, or (vi) the Loans shall cease to constitute first priority secured Indebtedness under the 95 intercreditor provisions of the Subordination Agreement or, in any case, such subordination provisions shall be invalidated or otherwise cease to be legal, valid and binding obligations of the parties thereto, enforceable in accordance with their terms; THEN, (1) upon the occurrence of any Event of Default described in Section 8.1(f) or 8.1(g), automatically, and (2) upon the occurrence and continuance of any other Event of Default, Administrative Agent may (and at the request of Requisite Lenders shall), upon notice to Company by Administrative Agent, (A) the Commitments, if any, of each Lender having such Commitments shall immediately terminate; (B) each of the following shall immediately become due and payable, in each case without presentment, demand, protest or other requirements of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by each Credit Party: (I) the unpaid principal amount of and accrued interest on the Loans and (II) all other Obligations; and (C) Administrative Agent may (and, at the request of the Requisite Lenders, shall) cause Collateral Agent to enforce any and all Liens and security interests created pursuant to Collateral Documents. SECTION 9. AGENTS 9.1 APPOINTMENT OF AGENTS. Silver Point is hereby appointed Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent hereunder and under the other Credit Documents and each Lender hereby authorizes Silver Point, in such capacity, to act as its agent in accordance with the terms hereof and the other Credit Documents. Silver Point hereby agrees to act in its capacity as such upon the express conditions contained herein and the other Credit Documents, as applicable. The provisions of this Section 9 are solely for the benefit of Agents and Lenders and no Credit Party shall have any rights as a third party beneficiary of any of the provisions thereof. In performing its functions and duties hereunder, each Agent shall act solely as an agent of Lenders and does not assume and shall not be deemed to have assumed any obligation towards or relationship of agency or trust with or for Company or any of its Subsidiaries. 9.2 POWERS AND DUTIES. Each Lender irrevocably authorizes each Agent to take such action on such Lender's behalf and to exercise such powers, rights and remedies hereunder and under the other Credit Documents as are specifically delegated or granted to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers, rights and remedies as are reasonably incidental thereto. Each Agent shall have only those duties and responsibilities that are expressly specified herein and the other Credit Documents. Each Agent may exercise such powers, rights and remedies and perform such duties by or through its agents or employees. No Agent shall have, by reason hereof or any of the other Credit Documents, a fiduciary relationship in respect of any Lender; and nothing herein or any of the other Credit Documents, expressed or implied, is intended to or shall be so construed as to impose upon any Agent any obligations in respect hereof or any of the other Credit Documents except as expressly set forth herein or therein. 9.3 GENERAL IMMUNITY. (a) No Responsibility for Certain Matters. No Agent shall be responsible to any Lender for the execution, effectiveness, genuineness, validity, 96 enforceability, collectability or sufficiency hereof or any other Credit Document or for any representations, warranties, recitals or statements made herein or therein or made in any written or oral statements or in any financial or other statements, instruments, reports or certificates or any other documents furnished or made by any Agent to Lenders or by or on behalf of any Credit Party to any Agent or any Lender in connection with the Credit Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby or for the financial condition or business affairs of any Credit Party or any other Person liable for the payment of any Obligations, nor shall any Agent be required to ascertain or inquire as to the performance or observance of any of the terms, conditions, provisions, covenants or agreements contained in any of the Credit Documents or as to the use of the proceeds of the Loans or as to the existence or possible existence of any Event of Default or Default or to make any disclosures with respect to the foregoing. Anything contained herein to the contrary notwithstanding, Administrative Agent shall not have any liability arising from confirmations of the amount of outstanding Loans. (b) Exculpatory Provisions. No Agent nor any of its officers, partners, directors, employees or agents shall be liable to Lenders for any action taken or omitted by any Agent under or in connection with any of the Credit Documents except to the extent caused by such Agent's gross negligence or willful misconduct. Each Agent shall be entitled to refrain from any act or the taking of any action (including the failure to take an action) in connection herewith or any of the other Credit Documents or from the exercise of any power, discretion or authority vested in it hereunder or thereunder unless and until such Agent shall have received instructions in respect thereof from Requisite Lenders (or such other Lenders as may be required to give such instructions under Section 10.5) and, upon receipt of such instructions from Requisite Lenders (or such other Lenders, as the case may be), such Agent shall be entitled to act or (where so instructed) refrain from acting, or to exercise such power, discretion or authority, in accordance with such instructions. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, (i) each Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any communication, instrument or document believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed or sent by the proper Person or Persons, and shall be entitled to rely and shall be protected in relying on opinions and judgments of attorneys (who may be attorneys for Company and its Subsidiaries), accountants, experts and other professional advisors selected by it; and (ii) no Lender shall have any right of action whatsoever against any Agent as a result of such Agent acting or (where so instructed) refraining from acting hereunder or any of the other Credit Documents in accordance with the instructions of Requisite Lenders (or such other Lenders as may be required to give such instructions under Section 10.5). 9.4 AGENTS ENTITLED TO ACT AS LENDER. The agency hereby created shall in no way impair or affect any of the rights and powers of, or impose any duties or obligations upon, any Agent in its individual capacity as a Lender hereunder. With respect to its participation in the Loans, each Agent shall have the same rights and powers hereunder as any other Lender and may exercise the same as if it were not performing the duties and functions delegated to it hereunder, and the term "Lender" shall, unless the context clearly otherwise indicates, include each Agent in its individual capacity. Any Agent and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, own securities of, and generally 97 engage in any kind of banking, trust, financial advisory or other business with Company or any of its Affiliates as if it were not performing the duties specified herein, and may accept fees and other consideration from Company for services in connection herewith and otherwise without having to account for the same to Lenders. 9.5 LENDERS' REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT. (a) Each Lender represents and warrants that it has made its own independent investigation of the financial condition and affairs of Company and its Subsidiaries in connection with Credit Extensions hereunder and that it has made and shall continue to make its own appraisal of the creditworthiness of Company and its Subsidiaries. No Agent shall have any duty or responsibility, either initially or on a continuing basis, to make any such investigation or any such appraisal on behalf of Lenders or to provide any Lender with any credit or other information with respect thereto, whether coming into its possession before the making of the Loans or at any time or times thereafter, and no Agent shall have any responsibility with respect to the accuracy of or the completeness of any information provided to Lenders. (b) Each Lender, by delivering its signature page to this Agreement and funding its Term Loan and/or Revolving Loans on the Closing Date, shall be deemed to have acknowledged receipt of, and consented to and approved, each Credit Document and each other document required to be approved by any Agent, Requisite Lenders or Lenders, as applicable on the Closing Date. 9.6 RIGHT TO INDEMNITY. Each Lender, in proportion to its Pro Rata Share, severally agrees to indemnify each Agent, their Affiliates and their respective officers, partners, directors, trustees, employees and agents of each Agent (each, an "INDEMNITEE AGENT PARTY"), to the extent that such Indemnitee Agent Party shall not have been reimbursed by any Credit Party, for and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses (including counsel fees and disbursements) or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against such Indemnitee Agent Party in exercising its powers, rights and remedies or performing its duties hereunder or under the other Credit Documents or otherwise in its capacity as such Indemnitee Agent Party in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement or the other Credit Documents, IN ALL CASES, WHETHER OR NOT CAUSED BY OR ARISING, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, OUT OF THE COMPARATIVE, CONTRIBUTORY, OR SOLE NEGLIGENCE OF SUCH AGENT; provided, no Lender shall be liable for any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from such Indemnitee Agent Party's gross negligence or willful misconduct. If any indemnity furnished to any Indemnitee Agent Party for any purpose shall, in the opinion of such Indemnitee Agent Party, be insufficient or become impaired, such Indemnitee Agent Party may call for additional indemnity and cease, or not commence, to do the acts indemnified against until such additional indemnity is furnished; provided, in no event shall this sentence require any Lender to indemnify any Indemnitee Agent Party against any liability, obligation, loss, damage, penalty, action, judgment, suit, cost, expense or disbursement in excess of such 98 Lender's Pro Rata Share thereof; and provided further, this sentence shall not be deemed to require any Lender to indemnify any Indemnitee Agent Party against any liability, obligation, loss, damage, penalty, action, judgment, suit, cost, expense or disbursement described in the proviso in the immediately preceding sentence. 9.7 SUCCESSOR ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT. (a) Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent may resign at any time by giving thirty (30) days' prior written notice thereof to Lenders and Company. Upon any such notice of resignation, Requisite Lenders shall have the right, upon five (5) Business Days' notice to Company, to appoint a successor Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent hereunder by a successor Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, that successor Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent and the retiring Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent shall promptly (i) transfer to such successor Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent all sums, Securities and other items of Collateral held under the Collateral Documents, together with all records and other documents necessary or appropriate in connection with the performance of the duties of the successor Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent under the Credit Documents, and (ii) execute and deliver to such successor Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent such amendments to financing statements, and take such other actions, as may be necessary or appropriate in connection with the assignment to such successor Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent of the security interests created under the Collateral Documents, whereupon such retiring Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder. After any retiring Administrative Agent's and Collateral Agent's resignation hereunder as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, the provisions of this Section 9 shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was Administrative Agent hereunder. (b) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Administrative Agent may assign its rights and duties as Administrative Agent hereunder to an Affiliate of Silver Point without the prior written consent of, or prior written notice to, Company or the Lenders; provided that Company and the Lenders may deem and treat such assigning Administrative Agent as Administrative Agent for all purposes hereof, unless and until such assigning Administrative Agent provides written notice to Company and the Lenders of such assignment. Upon such assignment such Affiliate shall succeed to and become vested with all rights, powers, privileges and duties as Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Credit Documents. 9.8 COLLATERAL DOCUMENTS AND GUARANTY. (a) Agents under Collateral Documents and Guaranty. Each Lender hereby further authorizes Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent, as applicable, on behalf of and for the benefit of Lenders, to be the agent for and representative of Lenders with respect to the Guaranty, the Collateral and the Collateral Documents and to 99 enter into the Subordination Agreement on its behalf. Subject to Section 10.5, without further written consent or authorization from Lenders, Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent, as applicable may execute any documents or instruments necessary to (i) release any Lien encumbering any item of Collateral that is the subject of a sale or other disposition of assets permitted hereby or to which Requisite Lenders (or such other Lenders as may be required to give such consent under Section 10.5) have otherwise consented, or (ii) release any Guarantor from the Guaranty pursuant to Section 7.12 or with respect to which Requisite Lenders (or such other Lenders as may be required to give such consent under Section 10.5) have otherwise consented. (b) Right to Realize on Collateral and Enforce Guaranty. Anything contained in any of the Credit Documents to the contrary notwithstanding, Company, Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent and each Lender hereby agree that (i) no Lender shall have any right individually to realize upon any of the Collateral or to enforce the Guaranty, it being understood and agreed that all powers, rights and remedies hereunder may be exercised solely by Administrative Agent, on behalf of Lenders in accordance with the terms hereof and all powers, rights and remedies under the Collateral Documents may be exercised solely by Collateral Agent, and (ii) in the event of a foreclosure by Collateral Agent on any of the Collateral pursuant to a public or private sale, Collateral Agent or any Lender may be the purchaser of any or all of such Collateral at any such sale and Collateral Agent, as agent for and representative of Secured Parties (but not any Lender or Lenders in its or their respective individual capacities unless Requisite Lenders shall otherwise agree in writing) shall be entitled, for the purpose of bidding and making settlement or payment of the purchase price for all or any portion of the Collateral sold at any such public sale, to use and apply any of the Obligations as a credit on account of the purchase price for any collateral payable by Collateral Agent at such sale. SECTION 10. MISCELLANEOUS 10.1 NOTICES. Unless otherwise specifically provided herein, any notice or other communication herein required or permitted to be given to a Credit Party or an Agent, shall be sent to such Person's address as set forth on Appendix B or in the other relevant Credit Document, and in the case of any Lender, the address as indicated on Appendix B or otherwise indicated to Administrative Agent in writing. Each notice hereunder shall be in writing or by any telecommunication device capable of creating a written record (including electronic mail), and may be personally served, telexed or sent by telefacsimile or United States mail or courier service and shall be deemed to have been given when delivered in person or by courier service and signed for against receipt thereof, upon receipt of telefacsimile or telex, or three (3) Business Days after depositing it in the United States mail with postage prepaid and properly addressed, when transmitted to an electronic mail address (or by another means of electronic delivery) or, if delivered by electronic mail or any other telecommunications device, when transmitted to an electronic mail address (or by another means of electronic delivery); provided, no notice to any Agent shall be effective until received by such Agent. 100 10.2 EXPENSES. Whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby shall be consummated, Company agrees to pay promptly (a) all the actual and reasonable costs and expenses of preparation of the Credit Documents and any consents, amendments, waivers or other modifications thereto; (b) all the costs of furnishing all opinions by counsel for Company and the other Credit Parties; (c) the reasonable fees, expenses and disbursements of counsel to Agents in connection with the negotiation, preparation, execution and administration of the Credit Documents and any consents, amendments, waivers or other modifications thereto and any other documents or matters requested by Company; (d) all the actual costs and reasonable expenses of creating and perfecting Liens in favor of Collateral Agent, for the benefit of Secured Parties pursuant hereto, including filing and recording fees, expenses and stamp, documentary and similar taxes and fees and amounts owed pursuant to Section 2.19(c), search fees, title insurance premiums and reasonable fees, expenses and disbursements of counsel to each Agent and of counsel providing any opinions that any Agent or Requisite Lenders may request in respect of the Collateral or the Liens created pursuant to the Collateral Documents; (e) all the actual costs and reasonable fees, expenses and disbursements of any auditors, accountants, consultants or appraisers whether internal or external; (f) all the actual costs and reasonable expenses (including the reasonable fees, expenses and disbursements of any appraisers, consultants, advisors and agents employed or retained by Collateral Agent and its counsel) in connection with the custody or preservation of any of the Collateral; (g) all other actual and reasonable costs and expenses incurred by each Agent in connection with the syndication of the Loans and Commitments and the negotiation, preparation and execution of the Credit Documents and any consents, amendments, waivers or other modifications thereto and the transactions contemplated thereby; and (h) after the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default, all costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees (including allocated costs of internal counsel) and costs of settlement, incurred by any Agent and Lenders in enforcing any Obligations of or in collecting any payments due from any Credit Party hereunder or under the other Credit Documents by reason of such Default or Event of Default (including in connection with the sale of, collection from, or other realization upon any of the Collateral or the enforcement of the Guaranty) or in connection with any refinancing or restructuring of the credit arrangements provided hereunder in the nature of a "work out" or pursuant to any insolvency or bankruptcy cases or proceedings. 10.3 INDEMNITY. (a) In addition to the payment of expenses pursuant to Section 10.2, whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby shall be consummated, each Credit Party agrees to defend (subject to Indemnitees' selection of counsel), indemnify, pay and hold harmless, each Agent and Lender, their Affiliates and their respective officers, partners, directors, trustees, employees and agents of each Agent and each Lender (each, an "INDEMNITEE"), from and against any and all Indemnified Liabilities, IN ALL CASES, WHETHER OR NOT CAUSED BY OR ARISING, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, OUT OF THE COMPARATIVE, CONTRIBUTORY, OR SOLE NEGLIGENCE OF SUCH AGENT; provided, no Credit Party shall have any obligation to any Indemnitee hereunder with respect to any Indemnified Liabilities to the extent such Indemnified Liabilities arise from the gross negligence or willful misconduct 101 of that Indemnitee. To the extent that the undertakings to defend, indemnify, pay and hold harmless set forth in this Section 10.3 may be unenforceable in whole or in part because they are violative of any law or public policy, the applicable Credit Party shall contribute the maximum portion that it is permitted to pay and satisfy under applicable law to the payment and satisfaction of all Indemnified Liabilities incurred by Indemnitees or any of them. (b) To the extent permitted by applicable law, no Credit Party shall assert, and each Credit Party hereby waives, any claim against Lenders, Agents and their respective Affiliates, directors, employees, attorneys or agents, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) (whether or not the claim therefor is based on contract, tort or duty imposed by any applicable legal requirement) arising out of, in connection with, arising out of, as a result of, or in any way related to, this Agreement or any Credit Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby or referred to herein or therein, the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, any Loan or the use of the proceeds thereof or any act or omission or event occurring in connection therewith, and Company and its Subsidiaries hereby waive, release and agree not to sue upon any such claim or any such damages, whether or not accrued and whether or not known or suspected to exist in its favor. 10.4 SET OFF. In addition to any rights now or hereafter granted under applicable law and not by way of limitation of any such rights, upon the occurrence of any Event of Default each Lender and each of its respective Affiliates is hereby authorized by each Credit Party at any time or from time to time subject to the consent of Administrative Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), without notice to any Credit Party or to any other Person (other than Administrative Agent), any such notice being hereby expressly waived, to set off and to appropriate and to apply any and all deposits (general or special, including Indebtedness evidenced by certificates of deposit, whether matured or unmatured, but not including trust accounts (in whatever currency)) and any other Indebtedness at any time held or owing by such Lender to or for the credit or the account of any Credit Party (in whatever currency) against and on account of the obligations and liabilities of any Credit Party to such Lender hereunder and under the other Credit Documents, including all claims of any nature or description arising out of or connected hereto or with any other Credit Document, irrespective of whether or not (a) such Lender shall have made any demand hereunder, (b) the principal of or the interest on the Loans or any other amounts due hereunder shall have become due and payable pursuant to Section 2 and although such obligations and liabilities, or any of them, may be contingent or unmatured or (c) such obligation or liability is owed to a branch or office of such Lender different from the branch or office holding such deposit or obligation or such Indebtedness. 10.5 AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS. (a) Requisite Lenders' Consent. Subject to Sections 10.5(b) and 10.5(c), no amendment, modification, termination or waiver of any provision of the Credit Documents, or consent to any departure by any Credit Party therefrom, shall in 102 any event be effective without the written concurrence of Administrative Agent and the Requisite Lenders. (b) Affected Lenders' Consent. Without the written consent of each Lender (other than a Defaulting Lender) that would be affected thereby, no amendment, modification, termination, or consent shall be effective if the effect thereof would: (i) extend the scheduled final maturity of any Loan or Note; (ii) waive, reduce or postpone any scheduled repayment (but not prepayment); (iii) reduce the rate of interest on any Loan (other than any waiver of any increase in the interest rate applicable to any Loan pursuant to Section 2.9) or any fee payable hereunder; (iv) extend the time for payment of any such interest or fees; (v) reduce the principal amount of any Loan; (vi) amend, modify, terminate or waive any provision of this Section 10.5(b) or Section 10.5(c); (vii) amend the definition of "REQUISITE LENDERS" or "PRO RATA SHARE"; provided, with the consent of Administrative Agent and the Requisite Lenders, additional extensions of credit pursuant hereto may be included in the determination of "REQUISITE LENDERS" or "PRO RATA SHARE" on substantially the same basis as the Term Loan Commitments, the Term Loan, the Revolving Commitments and the Revolving Loans are included on the Closing Date; (viii) release all or substantially all of the Collateral or all or substantially all of the Guarantors from the Guaranty except as expressly provided in the Credit Documents; or (ix) consent to the assignment or transfer by any Credit Party of any of its rights and obligations under any Credit Document. (c) Other Consents. No amendment, modification, termination or waiver of any provision of the Credit Documents, or consent to any departure by any Credit Party therefrom, shall: (i) increase any Revolving Commitment of any Lender over the amount thereof then in effect without the consent of such Lender; provided, no amendment, modification or waiver of any condition precedent, covenant, Default or Event of Default shall constitute an increase in any Revolving Commitment of any Lender; 103 (ii) amend the definition of "REQUISITE CLASS LENDERS" without the consent of Requisite Class Lenders of each Class; provided, with the consent of Administrative Agent and the Requisite Lenders, additional extensions of credit pursuant hereto may be included in the determination of such "REQUISITE CLASS LENDERS" on substantially the same basis as the Term Loan Commitments, the Term Loan, the Revolving Commitments and the Revolving Loans are included on the Closing Date; (iii) amend, modify, terminate or waive any provision of Section 3.2(a) with regard to any Credit Extension (whether constituting a Revolving Loan or a Term Loan) without the consent of Requisite Class Lenders of the affected Class; (iv) alter the required application of any repayments or prepayments as between Classes pursuant to Section 2.14 without the consent of Requisite Class Lenders of each Class which is being allocated a lesser repayment or prepayment as a result thereof; provided, Administrative Agent and the Requisite Lenders may waive, in whole or in part, any prepayment so long as the application, as between Classes, of any portion of such prepayment which is still required to be made is not altered; or (v) amend, modify, terminate or waive any provision of Section 9 as the same applies to any Agent, or any other provision hereof as the same applies to the rights or obligations of any Agent, in each case without the consent of such Agent. (d) Execution of Amendments, etc. Administrative Agent may, but shall have no obligation to, with the concurrence of any Lender, execute amendments, modifications, waivers or consents on behalf of such Lender. Any waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which it was given. No notice to or demand on any Credit Party in any case shall entitle any Credit Party to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances. Any amendment, modification, termination, waiver or consent effected in accordance with this Section 10.5 shall be binding upon each Lender at the time outstanding, each future Lender and, if signed by a Credit Party, on such Credit Party. 10.6 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS; PARTICIPATIONS. (a) Generally. This Agreement shall be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns and shall inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and the successors and assigns of Lenders. No Credit Party's rights or obligations hereunder nor any interest therein may be assigned or delegated by any Credit Party without the prior written consent of all Lenders. 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 and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, Affiliates of each of the Agents and Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement. 104 (b) Register. Company, Administrative Agent and Lenders shall deem and treat the Persons listed as Lenders in the Register as the holders and owners of the corresponding Commitments and Loans listed therein for all purposes hereof, and no assignment or transfer of any such Commitment or Loan shall be effective, in each case, unless and until an Assignment Agreement effecting the assignment or transfer thereof shall have been delivered to and accepted by Administrative Agent and recorded in the Register as provided in Section 10.6(e). Prior to such recordation, all amounts owed with respect to the applicable Commitment or Loan shall be owed to the Lender listed in the Register as the owner thereof, and any request, authority or consent of any Person who, at the time of making such request or giving such authority or consent, is listed in the Register as a Lender shall be conclusive and binding on any subsequent holder, assignee or transferee of the corresponding Commitments or Loans. Solely for purposes of maintaining the Register and for Tax purposes only Administrative Agent shall be deemed to be acting on behalf of the Credit Parties. (c) Right to Assign. Each Lender shall have the right at any time to sell, assign or transfer all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement, including, without limitation, all or a portion of any of its Commitments and/or Loans owing to it or any of its other Obligations (provided, however, that each such assignment shall be of a uniform, and not varying, percentage of all rights and obligations under and in respect of any Loan and any related Commitments): (i) to any Person meeting the criteria of clause (i)(a) or clause (ii)(a) of the definition of the term of "Eligible Assignee" upon the giving of notice to Company and Administrative Agent; and (ii) to any Person otherwise constituting an Eligible Assignee with the consent of Administrative Agent; provided, each such assignment pursuant to this Section 10.6(c)(ii) shall be in an aggregate amount of not less than (A) $1,000,000 (or such lesser amount as may be agreed to by Administrative Agent or as shall constitute the aggregate amount of the Revolving Commitments and Revolving Loans of the assigning Lender) with respect to the assignment of the Revolving Commitments and Revolving Loans or (B) $1,000,000 (or such lesser amount as may be agreed to by Administrative Agent or as shall constitute the aggregate amount of the Term Loan with respect to the assignment of the Term Loan. (d) Mechanics. The assigning Lender and the assignee thereof shall execute and deliver to Administrative Agent an Assignment Agreement, together with such forms, certificates or other evidence, if any, with respect to United States federal income Tax withholding matters as the assignee under such Assignment Agreement may be required to deliver to Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.19(c). (e) Notice of Assignment. Upon its receipt and acceptance of a duly executed and completed Assignment Agreement, any forms, certificates or other evidence required by this Agreement in connection therewith, Administrative Agent shall 105 record the information contained in such Assignment Agreement in the Register, shall give prompt notice thereof to Company and shall maintain a copy of such Assignment Agreement. (f) Representations and Warranties of Assignee. Each Lender, upon execution and delivery hereof or upon executing and delivering an Assignment Agreement, as the case may be, represents and warrants as of the Closing Date or as of the applicable Effective Date (as defined in the applicable Assignment Agreement) that (i) it is an Eligible Assignee; (ii) it has experience and expertise in the making of or investing in commitments or loans such as the applicable Commitments or Loans, as the case may be; and (iii) it will make or invest in, as the case may be, its Commitments or Loans for its own account in the ordinary course of its business and without a view to distribution of such Commitments or Loans within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act or other federal securities laws (it being understood that, subject to the provisions of this Section 10.6, the disposition of such Revolving Commitments or Loans or any interests therein shall at all times remain within its exclusive control). (g) Effect of Assignment. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Section 10.6, as of the "Effective Date" specified in the applicable Assignment Agreement: (i) the assignee thereunder shall have the rights and obligations of a "Lender" hereunder to the extent such rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned to it pursuant to such Assignment Agreement and shall thereafter be a party hereto and a "Lender" for all purposes hereof; (ii) the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and obligations hereunder have been assigned thereby pursuant to such Assignment Agreement, relinquish its rights (other than any rights which survive the termination hereof under Section 10.8) and be released from its obligations hereunder (and, in the case of an Assignment Agreement covering all or the remaining portion of an assigning Lender's rights and obligations hereunder, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto; provided, anything contained in any of the Credit Documents to the contrary notwithstanding, such assigning Lender shall continue to be entitled to the benefit of all indemnities hereunder as specified herein with respect to matters arising out of the prior involvement of such assigning Lender as a Lender hereunder); (iii) the Commitments shall be modified to reflect the Commitment of such assignee and any Commitment of such assigning Lender, if any; and (iv) if any such assignment occurs after the issuance of any Note hereunder, the assigning Lender shall, upon the effectiveness of such assignment or as promptly thereafter as practicable, surrender its applicable Notes to Administrative Agent for cancellation, and thereupon Company shall issue and deliver new Notes, if so requested by the assignee and/or assigning Lender, to such assignee and/or to such assigning Lender, with appropriate insertions, to reflect the new Commitments and/or outstanding Loans of the assignee and/or the assigning Lender. (h) Participations. Each Lender shall have the right at any time to sell one or more participations to any Person (other than Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of its Affiliates) in all or any part of its Commitments, Loans or in any other Obligation. The holder of any such participation, other than an Affiliate of the Lender granting such participation, shall not be entitled to require such Lender to take or omit to take any action hereunder except with respect to any amendment, modification or 106 waiver that would (i) extend the final scheduled maturity of any Loan or Note in which such Participant is participating, or reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of interest or fees thereon (except in connection with a waiver of applicability of any post default increase in interest rates) or reduce the principal amount thereof, or increase the amount of the Participant's participation over the amount thereof then in effect (it being understood that a waiver of any Default or Event of Default or of a mandatory prepayment or mandatory reduction in the Commitment shall not constitute a change in the terms of such participation, and that an increase in any Commitment or Loan shall be permitted without the consent of any Participant if the Participant's participation is not increased as a result thereof), (ii) consent to the assignment or transfer by any Credit Party of any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement, or (iii) release all or substantially all of the Collateral under the Collateral Documents or all or substantially all of the Guarantors from the Guaranty (in each case, except as expressly provided in the Credit Documents) supporting the Loans hereunder in which such Participant is participating. Company agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.17(c), 2.18 and 2.19 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to clause (c) of this Section; provided, (i) a Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 2.18 or 2.19 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 Company's prior written consent, and (ii) a Participant that would be a Non-US Lender if it were a Lender shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section 2.19 unless Company is notified of the participation sold to such Participant and such Participant agrees, for the benefit of Company, to comply with Section 2.19 as though it were a Lender. To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 10.4 as though it were a Lender, provided such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.16 as though it were a Lender. (i) Certain Other Assignments. In addition to any other assignment permitted pursuant to this Section 10.6, any Lender may assign, pledge and/or grant a security interest in, all or any portion of its Loans, the other Obligations owed by or to such Lender, and its Notes, if any, to secure obligations of such Lender including, without limitation, any Federal Reserve Bank as collateral security pursuant to Regulation A of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and any operating circular issued by such Federal Reserve Bank; provided, no Lender, as between Company and such Lender, shall be relieved of any of its obligations hereunder as a result of any such assignment and pledge, and provided further, in no event shall the applicable Federal Reserve Bank, pledgee or trustee be considered to be a "Lender" or be entitled to require the assigning Lender to take or omit to take any action hereunder. 10.7 INDEPENDENCE OF COVENANTS. All covenants hereunder shall be given independent effect so that if a particular action or condition is not permitted by any of such covenants, the fact that it would be permitted by an exception to, or would otherwise be within the limitations of, another covenant shall not avoid the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default if such action is taken or condition exists. 107 10.8 SURVIVAL OF REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND AGREEMENTS. All representations, warranties and agreements made herein shall survive the execution and delivery hereof and the making of any Credit Extension. Notwithstanding anything herein or implied by law to the contrary, the agreements of each Credit Party set forth in Sections 2.17(c), 2.18, 2.19, 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4 and the agreements of Lenders set forth in Sections 2.16, 9.3(b) and 9.6 shall survive the payment of the Loans and the termination hereof. 10.9 NO WAIVER; REMEDIES CUMULATIVE. No failure or delay on the part of any Agent or any Lender in the exercise of any power, right or privilege hereunder or under any other Credit Document shall impair such power, right or privilege or be construed to be a waiver of any default or acquiescence therein, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such power, right or privilege preclude other or further exercise thereof or of any other power, right or privilege. The rights, powers and remedies given to each Agent and each Lender hereby are cumulative and shall be in addition to and independent of all rights, powers and remedies existing by virtue of any statute or rule of law or in any of the other Credit Documents. Any forbearance or failure to exercise, and any delay in exercising, any right, power or remedy hereunder shall not impair any such right, power or remedy or be construed to be a waiver thereof, nor shall it preclude the further exercise of any such right, power or remedy. 10.10 MARSHALLING; PAYMENTS SET ASIDE. Neither any Agent nor any Lender shall be under any obligation to marshal any assets in favor of any Credit Party or any other Person or against or in payment of any or all of the Obligations. To the extent that any Credit Party makes a payment or payments to Administrative Agent or Lenders (or to Administrative Agent, on behalf of Lenders), or Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent, or Lenders enforce any security interests or exercise their rights of setoff, and such payment or payments or the proceeds of such enforcement or setoff or any part thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside and/or required to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party under any bankruptcy law, any other state or federal law, common law or any equitable cause, then, to the extent of such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied, and all Liens, rights and remedies therefor or related thereto, shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment or payments had not been made or such enforcement or setoff had not occurred. 10.11 SEVERABILITY. In case any provision in or obligation hereunder or any Note or other Credit Document shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions or obligations, or of such provision or obligation in any other jurisdiction, shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby. 10.12 OBLIGATIONS SEVERAL; INDEPENDENT NATURE OF LENDERS' RIGHTS. The obligations of Lenders hereunder are several and no Lender shall be responsible for the obligations or Commitment of any other Lender hereunder. Nothing contained herein or in any other Credit Document, and no action taken by Lenders pursuant hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute Lenders as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other 108 kind of entity. The amounts payable at any time hereunder to each Lender shall be a separate and independent debt, and each Lender shall be entitled to protect and enforce its rights arising out hereof and it shall not be necessary for any other Lender to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose. 10.13 HEADINGS. Section headings herein are included herein for convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a part hereof for any other purpose or be given any substantive effect. 10.14 APPLICABLE LAW. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF LAWS PRINCIPLES (OTHER THAN SECTIONS 5-1401 AND 5-1402 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW) THEREOF. 10.15 CONSENT TO JURISDICTION. ALL JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS BROUGHT AGAINST ANY CREDIT PARTY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING HERETO OR ANY OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENT, OR ANY OF THE OBLIGATIONS, MAY BE BROUGHT IN ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION IN THE STATE, COUNTY AND CITY OF NEW YORK. BY EXECUTING AND DELIVERING THIS AGREEMENT, EACH CREDIT PARTY, FOR ITSELF AND IN CONNECTION WITH ITS PROPERTIES, IRREVOCABLY (A) ACCEPTS GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY THE NONEXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION AND VENUE OF SUCH COURTS; (B) WAIVES ANY DEFENSE OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS; (C) AGREES THAT SERVICE OF ALL PROCESS IN ANY SUCH PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT MAY BE MADE BY REGISTERED OR CERTIFIED MAIL, RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED, TO THE APPLICABLE CREDIT PARTY AT ITS ADDRESS PROVIDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 10.1 IS SUFFICIENT TO CONFER PERSONAL JURISDICTION OVER THE APPLICABLE CREDIT PARTY IN ANY SUCH PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT, AND OTHERWISE CONSTITUTES EFFECTIVE AND BINDING SERVICE IN EVERY RESPECT; AND (D) AGREES THAT AGENTS AND LENDERS RETAIN THE RIGHT TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY LAW OR TO BRING PROCEEDINGS AGAINST ANY CREDIT PARTY IN THE COURTS OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION. 10.16 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY AGREES TO WAIVE ITS RESPECTIVE RIGHTS TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION BASED UPON OR ARISING HEREUNDER OR UNDER ANY OF THE OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENTS OR ANY DEALINGS BETWEEN THEM RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS LOAN TRANSACTION OR THE LENDER/BORROWER RELATIONSHIP THAT IS BEING ESTABLISHED. THE SCOPE OF THIS WAIVER IS INTENDED TO BE ALL ENCOMPASSING OF ANY AND ALL 109 DISPUTES THAT MAY BE FILED IN ANY COURT AND THAT RELATE TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS TRANSACTION, INCLUDING CONTRACT CLAIMS, TORT CLAIMS, BREACH OF DUTY CLAIMS AND ALL OTHER COMMON LAW AND STATUTORY CLAIMS. EACH PARTY HERETO ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THIS WAIVER IS A MATERIAL INDUCEMENT TO ENTER INTO A BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP, THAT EACH HAS ALREADY RELIED ON THIS WAIVER IN ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT, AND THAT EACH WILL CONTINUE TO RELY ON THIS WAIVER IN ITS RELATED FUTURE DEALINGS. EACH PARTY HERETO FURTHER WARRANTS AND REPRESENTS THAT IT HAS REVIEWED THIS WAIVER WITH ITS LEGAL COUNSEL AND THAT IT KNOWINGLY AND VOLUNTARILY WAIVES ITS JURY TRIAL RIGHTS FOLLOWING CONSULTATION WITH LEGAL COUNSEL. THIS WAIVER IS IRREVOCABLE, MEANING THAT IT MAY NOT BE MODIFIED EITHER ORALLY OR IN WRITING (OTHER THAN BY A MUTUAL WRITTEN WAIVER SPECIFICALLY REFERRING TO THIS SECTION 10.16 AND EXECUTED BY EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO), AND THIS WAIVER SHALL APPLY TO ANY SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, SUPPLEMENTS OR MODIFICATIONS HERETO OR ANY OF THE OTHER CREDIT DOCUMENTS OR TO ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS OR AGREEMENTS RELATING TO THE LOANS MADE HEREUNDER. IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, THIS AGREEMENT MAY BE FILED AS A WRITTEN CONSENT TO A TRIAL BY THE COURT. 10.17 CONFIDENTIALITY. Each Lender shall hold all non public information regarding Company and its Subsidiaries and their businesses identified as such by Company and obtained by such Lender pursuant to the requirements hereof in accordance with such Lender's customary procedures for handling confidential information of such nature, it being understood and agreed by Company that, in any event, a Lender may make (i) disclosures of such information to Affiliates of such Lender and to their agents and advisors (and to other persons authorized by a Lender or Agent to organize, present or disseminate such information in connection with disclosures otherwise made in accordance with this Section 10.17), (ii) disclosures of such information reasonably required by any bona fide or potential assignee, transferee or participant in connection with the contemplated assignment, transfer or participation by such Lender of any Loans or any participations therein, (iii) disclosure to any rating agency when required by it, provided that, prior to any disclosure, such rating agency shall undertake in writing to preserve the confidentiality of any confidential information relating to the Credit Parties received by it from any of the Agents or any Lender, (iv) to any Lender's financing sources, provided that prior to any disclosure, such financing source is informed of the confidential nature of the information, and (v) disclosures required or requested by any governmental agency or representative thereof or by the NAIC or pursuant to legal or judicial process; provided, unless specifically prohibited by applicable law or court order, each Lender shall make reasonable efforts to notify Company of any request by any governmental agency or representative thereof (other than any such request in connection with any examination of the financial condition or other routine examination of such Lender by such governmental agency) for disclosure of any such non public information 110 prior to disclosure of such information. Notwithstanding the foregoing, on or after the Closing Date, Administrative Agent may, at its own expense, issue news releases and publish "tombstone" advertisements and other announcements relating to this transaction in newspapers, trade journals and other appropriate media. 10.18 USURY SAVINGS CLAUSE. Notwithstanding any other provision herein, the aggregate interest rate charged or agreed to be paid with respect to any of the Obligations, including all charges or fees in connection therewith deemed in the nature of interest under applicable law shall not exceed the Highest Lawful Rate. If the rate of interest (determined without regard to the preceding sentence) under this Agreement at any time exceeds the Highest Lawful Rate, the outstanding amount of the Loans made hereunder shall bear interest at the Highest Lawful Rate until the total amount of interest due hereunder equals the amount of interest which would have been due hereunder if the stated rates of interest set forth in this Agreement had at all times been in effect. In addition, if when the Loans made hereunder are repaid in full the total interest due hereunder (taking into account the increase provided for above) is less than the total amount of interest which would have been due hereunder if the stated rates of interest set forth in this Agreement had at all times been in effect, then to the extent permitted by law, Company shall pay to Administrative Agent an amount equal to the difference between the amount of interest paid and the amount of interest which would have been paid if the Highest Lawful Rate had at all times been in effect. Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is the intention of Lenders and Company to conform strictly to any applicable usury laws. Accordingly, if any Lender contracts for, charges, or receives any consideration which constitutes interest in excess of the Highest Lawful Rate, then any such excess shall be cancelled automatically and, if previously paid, shall at such Lender's option be applied to the outstanding amount of the Loans made hereunder or be refunded to Company. In determining whether the interest contracted for, charged, or received by Administrative Agent or a Lender exceeds the Highest Lawful Rate, such Person may, to the extent permitted by applicable law, (a) characterize any payment that is not principal as an expense, fee, or premium rather than interest, (b) exclude voluntary prepayments and the effects thereof, and (c) amortize, prorate, allocate, and spread in equal or unequal parts the total amount of interest, throughout the contemplated term of the Obligations hereunder. 10.19 COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed an original, but all such counterparts together shall constitute but one and the same instrument. 10.20 EFFECTIVENESS. This Agreement shall become effective upon the execution of a counterpart hereof by each of the parties hereto and receipt by Company and Administrative Agent of written or telephonic notification of such execution and authorization of delivery thereof. 10.21 ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT . The parties agree that the "issue price" (as defined under Section 1273 of the Internal Revenue Code) of the Term Loan is $64,025,000.00. The parties shall not take any position inconsistent therewith, including, without 111 limitation, for purposes of reporting any original issue discount on the Term Loan for U.S. federal income tax purposes. 10.22 PATRIOT ACT. Each Lender and Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Lender) hereby notifies Company that pursuant to the requirements of the Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies Company, which information includes the name and address of Company and other information that will allow such Lender or Administrative Agent, as applicable, to identify Company in accordance with the Act. [Remainder of page intentionally left blank.] 112 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized as of the date first written above. NAVISITE, INC. By: /s/ John J. Gavin, Jr. ------------------------------------ Name: John J. Gavin, Jr. Title: CFO AVASTA, INC. By: /s/ John J. Gavin, Jr. ------------------------------------ Name: John J. Gavin, Jr. Title: CFO CLEARBLUE TECHNOLOGIES MANAGEMENT, INC. By: /s/ John J. Gavin, Jr. ------------------------------------ Name: John J. Gavin, Jr. Title: CFO CLEARBLUE TECHNOLOGIES/CHICAGO-WELLS, INC. By: /s/ John J. Gavin, Jr. ------------------------------------ Name: John J. Gavin, Jr. Title: CFO CLEAR BLUE TECHNOLOGIES/LAS VEGAS, INC. By: /s/ John J. Gavin, Jr. ------------------------------------ Name: John J. Gavin, Jr. Title: CFO CLEARBLUE TECHNOLOGIES/LOS ANGELES, INC. By: /s/ John J. Gavin, Jr. ------------------------------------ Name: John J. Gavin, Jr. Title: CFO CLEARBLUE TECHNOLOGIES/ MILWAUKEE, INC. By: /s/ John J. Gavin, Jr. ------------------------------------ Name: John J. Gavin, Jr. Title: CFO CLEARBLUE TECHNOLOGIES/OAK BROOK, INC. By: /s/ John J. Gavin, Jr. ------------------------------------ Name: John J. Gavin, Jr. Title: CFO CLEARBLUE TECHNOLOGIES/VIENNA, INC. By: /s/ John J. Gavin, Jr. ------------------------------------ Name: John J. Gavin, Jr. Title: CFO CLEARBLUE TECHNOLOGIES/ DALLAS, INC. By: /s/ John J. Gavin, Jr. ------------------------------------ Name: John J. Gavin, Jr. Title: CFO CLEARBLUE TECHNOLOGIES/NEW YORK, INC. By: /s/ John J. Gavin, Jr. ------------------------------------ Name: John J. Gavin, Jr. Title: CFO CLEARBLUE TECHNOLOGIES/SAN FRANCISCO, INC. By: /s/ John J. Gavin, Jr. ------------------------------------ Name: John J. Gavin, Jr. Title: CFO CLEARBLUE TECHNOLOGIES/SANTA CLARA, INC. By: /s/ John J. Gavin, Jr. ------------------------------------ Name: John J. Gavin, Jr. Title: CFO CONXION CORPORATION By: /s/ John J. Gavin, Jr. ------------------------------------ Name: John J. Gavin, Jr. Title: CFO INTREPID ACQUISITION CORP. By: /s/ John J. Gavin, Jr. ------------------------------------ Name: John J. Gavin, Jr. Title: CFO LEXINGTON ACQUISITION CORP. By: /s/ John J. Gavin, Jr. ------------------------------------ Name: John J. Gavin, Jr. Title: CFO MANAGEDOPS.COM, INC. By: /s/ John J. Gavin, Jr. ------------------------------------ Name: John J. Gavin, Jr. Title: CFO SUREBRIDGE ACQUISITION CORP. By: /s/ John J. Gavin, Jr. ------------------------------------ Name: John J. Gavin, Jr. Title: CFO SUREBRIDGE SERVICES, INC. By: /s/ John J. Gavin, Jr. ------------------------------------ Name: John J. Gavin, Jr. Title: CFO SITEROCK CORPORATION By: /s/ John J. Gavin, Jr. ------------------------------------ Name: John J. Gavin, Jr. Title: CFO NAVISITE ACQUISITION SUBSIDIARY, INC. By: /s/ John J. Gavin, Jr. ------------------------------------ Name: John J. Gavin, Jr. Title: CFO CLICKHEAR, INC. By: /s/ John J. Gavin, Jr. ------------------------------------ Name: John J. Gavin, Jr. Title: CFO SILVER POINT FINANCE, LLC, as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent By: /s/ Richard Petrilli ------------------------------------ Name: Richard Petrilli Title: Authorized Signatory FIELD POINT I, LTD., as a Lender By: /s/ Richard Petrilli ------------------------------------ Name: Richard Petrilli Title: Authorized Signatory FIELD POINT III, LTD., as a Lender By: /s/ Richard Petrilli ------------------------------------ Name: Richard Petrilli Title: Authorized Signatory SPF CDO I, LLC, as a Lender By: /s/ Richard Petrilli ------------------------------------ Name: Richard Petrilli Title: Authorized Signatory