Credit Agreement, dated as of August 11, 2020, by and among PREIT Associates, L.P., PREIT-RUBIN, Inc., Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, and the financial institutions party thereto and their assignees
Exhibit 10.1
Execution Version
Loan Number: 1019791
CREDIT AGREEMENT
Dated as of August 11, 2020
by and among
PREIT ASSOCIATES, L.P. and PREIT-RUBIN, INC.,
each, as a Borrower,
PENNSYLVANIA REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST,
as Parent and as a Borrower,
THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS PARTY HERETO
AND THEIR ASSIGNEES UNDER SECTION 11.6(b),
as Lenders
and
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Administrative Agent
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I. | Definitions | 1 | ||||
Section 1.1. | Definitions. | 1 | ||||
Section 1.2. | General; References to Times. | 21 | ||||
Section 1.3. | Rates. | 22 | ||||
Section 1.4. | Incorporation by Reference. | 22 | ||||
Section 1.5. | Divisions. | 22 | ||||
ARTICLE II. | Credit Facilities | 23 | ||||
Section 2.1. | [Reserved]. | 23 | ||||
Section 2.2. | Term Loans. | 23 | ||||
Section 2.3. | Mandatory Principal Repayments. | 24 | ||||
Section 2.4. | [Reserved]. | 24 | ||||
Section 2.5. | [Reserved]. | 24 | ||||
Section 2.6. | Rates and Payment of Interest on Loans. | 24 | ||||
Section 2.7. | Number of Interest Periods. | 24 | ||||
Section 2.8. | Repayment of Loans. | 25 | ||||
Section 2.9. | Late Charges. | 25 | ||||
Section 2.10. | Optional Prepayments. | 25 | ||||
Section 2.11. | Continuation. | 25 | ||||
Section 2.12. | Conversion. | 26 | ||||
Section 2.13. | Notes. | 26 | ||||
Section 2.14. | [Reserved]. | 26 | ||||
Section 2.15. | [Reserved]. | 26 | ||||
Section 2.16. | Voluntary Reduction of the Term Loan Commitments. | 27 | ||||
Section 2.17. | Joint and Several Liability of the Borrower. | 27 | ||||
Section 2.18. | Actions of the Borrower. | 28 | ||||
Section 2.19. | [Reserved]. | 28 | ||||
Section 2.20. | Funds Transfer Disbursements. | 28 | ||||
ARTICLE III. | Payments, Fees and Other General Provisions | 28 | ||||
Section 3.1. | Payments. | 28 | ||||
Section 3.2. | Pro Rata Treatment. | 29 | ||||
Section 3.3. | Sharing of Payments, Etc. | 29 | ||||
Section 3.4. | Several Obligations. | 30 | ||||
Section 3.5. | Fees. | 30 | ||||
Section 3.6. | Computations. | 30 | ||||
Section 3.7. | Usury. | 30 | ||||
Section 3.8. | Statements of Account. | 31 | ||||
Section 3.9. | Defaulting Lenders. | 31 | ||||
Section 3.10. | Taxes. | 32 | ||||
ARTICLE IV. | Yield Protection, Etc. | 36 | ||||
Section 4.1. | Additional Costs; Capital Adequacy. | 36 | ||||
Section 4.2. | Suspension of LIBOR Loans; Alternative Rate of Interest. | 37 | ||||
Section 4.3. | Illegality. | 38 | ||||
Section 4.4. | Compensation. | 38 | ||||
Section 4.5. | Treatment of Affected Loans. | 39 | ||||
Section 4.6. | Affected Lenders. | 40 |
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Section 4.7. | Assumptions Concerning Funding of LIBOR Loans. | 40 | ||||
Section 4.8. | Change of Lending Office. | 40 | ||||
ARTICLE V. | Conditions Precedent | 41 | ||||
Section 5.1. | Initial Conditions Precedent. | 41 | ||||
Section 5.2. | Conditions Precedent to All Credit Events. | 44 | ||||
ARTICLE VI. | Representations and Warranties | 45 | ||||
Section 6.1. | Representations and Warranties. | 45 | ||||
Section 6.2. | Survival of Representations and Warranties, Etc. | 45 | ||||
ARTICLE VII. | Affirmative Covenants | 46 | ||||
Section 7.1. | Existing Revolving Credit Agreement Affirmative Covenants. | 46 | ||||
Section 7.2. | Collateral. | 46 | ||||
Section 7.3. | Specified Term Loan Affirmative Covenants. | 46 | ||||
ARTICLE VIII. | Negative Covenants | 48 | ||||
Section 8.1. | Existing Revolving Credit Agreement Negative Covenants. | 48 | ||||
Section 8.2. | Minimum Liquidity. | 48 | ||||
Section 8.3. | Specified Term Loan Negative Covenants. | 49 | ||||
ARTICLE IX. | Default | 50 | ||||
Section 9.1. | Events of Default. | 50 | ||||
Section 9.2. | Remedies Upon Event of Default. | 53 | ||||
Section 9.3. | Remedies Upon Default. | 54 | ||||
Section 9.4. | Marshaling; Payments Set Aside. | 54 | ||||
Section 9.5. | Allocation of Proceeds. | 54 | ||||
Section 9.6. | [Reserved]. | 55 | ||||
Section 9.7. | Performance by Administrative Agent. | 55 | ||||
Section 9.8. | Rescission of Acceleration by Requisite Lenders. | 55 | ||||
Section 9.9. | Rights Cumulative. | 55 | ||||
ARTICLE X. | The Administrative Agent | 56 | ||||
Section 10.1. | Appointment and Authorization. | 56 | ||||
Section 10.2. | Administrative Agents Reliance, Etc. | 57 | ||||
Section 10.3. | Notice of Defaults. | 57 | ||||
Section 10.4. | Administrative Agent as Lender. | 58 | ||||
Section 10.5. | Approvals of Lenders. | 58 | ||||
Section 10.6. | Lender Credit Decision, Etc. | 58 | ||||
Section 10.7. | Indemnification of Administrative Agent. | 59 | ||||
Section 10.8. | Successor Administrative Agent. | 60 | ||||
Section 10.9. | Collateral Matters; Protective Advances. | 60 | ||||
ARTICLE XI. | Miscellaneous | 61 | ||||
Section 11.1. | Notices. | 61 | ||||
Section 11.2. | Expenses. | 63 | ||||
Section 11.3. | Stamp, Intangible and Recording Taxes. | 64 | ||||
Section 11.4. | Setoff. | 64 |
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Section 11.5. | Litigation; Jurisdiction; Other Matters; Waivers. | 64 | ||||
Section 11.6. | Successors and Assigns. | 65 | ||||
Section 11.7. | Amendments and Waivers. | 69 | ||||
Section 11.8. | Nonliability of Administrative Agent and Lenders. | 71 | ||||
Section 11.9. | Confidentiality. | 71 | ||||
Section 11.10. | Indemnification. | 72 | ||||
Section 11.11. | Termination; Survival. | 73 | ||||
Section 11.12. | Severability of Provisions. | 74 | ||||
Section 11.13. | GOVERNING LAW. | 74 | ||||
Section 11.14. | Counterparts. | 74 | ||||
Section 11.15. | Independence of Covenants. | 74 | ||||
Section 11.16. | Obligations with Respect to Loan Parties. | 74 | ||||
Section 11.17. | Limitation of Liability. | 74 | ||||
Section 11.18. | Entire Agreement. | 75 | ||||
Section 11.19. | Construction. | 75 | ||||
Section 11.20. | Time of the Essence. | 75 | ||||
Section 11.21. | Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions. | 75 |
SCHEDULE I | Commitments | |
SCHEDULE 1.1(b) | Properties | |
EXHIBIT A | Form of Assignment and Assumption Agreement | |
EXHIBIT B | Form of Guaranty | |
EXHIBIT C | Form of Notice of Continuation | |
EXHIBIT D | Form of Notice of Conversion | |
EXHIBIT E | Form of Notice of Borrowing | |
EXHIBIT F | Form of Disbursement Instruction Agreement | |
EXHIBIT G | Form of Term Note | |
EXHIBIT H | Form of Tax Compliance Certificates |
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THIS CREDIT AGREEMENT (this Agreement) dated as of August 11, 2020, by and among PREIT ASSOCIATES, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (PREIT), PREIT-RUBIN, INC., a Pennsylvania corporation (PREIT-RUBIN), PENNSYLVANIA REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST, a Pennsylvania business trust (the Parent; together with PREIT and PREIT-RUBIN, each individually, a Borrower and collectively, the Borrower), each of the financial institutions initially a signatory hereto together with their assignees pursuant to Section 11.6(b) and WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Administrative Agent.
WHEREAS, the Lenders desire to make available to the Borrower term loans in the aggregate amount of up to $30,000,000 on and subject to the terms and conditions contained herein;
NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged by the parties hereto, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS
Section 1.1. Definitions.
In addition to terms defined elsewhere herein, the following terms shall have the following meanings for the purposes of this Agreement:
Actual Cash Receipts means the sum of all cash distributions received by the Borrower from its Subsidiaries during the relevant period of determination (excluding any borrowings under this Agreement) and which corresponds to the amounts across from the line-item in the Loan Budget titled Total Cash Receipts, as determined in a manner consistent with the Loan Budget.
Actual Company-Side Professional Disbursement Amounts means the sum of all cash disbursements made by the Borrower during the relevant period of determination as set forth across from the line-item in the Loan Budget titled Professional Fees (Company), as determined in a manner consistent with the Loan Budget.
Actual Debt Service Disbursement Amounts means the sum of all cash disbursements made by the Borrower during the relevant period of determination as set forth across from the line-item in the Loan Budget titled Total Debt Service, as determined in a manner consistent with the Loan Budget.
Actual Disbursement Amounts means the sum of all cash disbursements made by the Borrower during the relevant period of determination as set forth across from the line-item in the Loan Budget titled Total Cash Disbursements, as determined in a manner consistent with the Loan Budget.
Actual Restructuring Related Amounts means the sum of all cash disbursements made by the Borrower during the relevant period of determination as set forth across from the line-item in the Loan Budget titled Restructuring Related Amounts, as determined in a manner consistent with the Loan Budget.
Additional Costs has the meaning given that term in Section 4.1(b).
Administrative Agent means Wells Fargo, as contractual representative for the Lenders under the terms of this Agreement, or any successor Administrative Agent appointed pursuant to Section 10.8.
Administrative Questionnaire means the Administrative Questionnaire completed by each Lender and delivered to the Administrative Agent in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent to the Lenders from time to time.
Affected Financial Institution means (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.
Affected Lender has the meaning given that term in Section 4.6.
Affiliate means with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified. In no event shall the Administrative Agent or any Lender be deemed to be an Affiliate of any Borrower.
Agreement has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph hereof.
Agreement Date means the date as of which this Agreement is dated.
Applicable Law means all international, foreign, federal, state and local statutes, treaties, rules, guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes, executive orders, and administrative or judicial precedents or authorities, including the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not having the force of law.
Applicable Margin means (a) 8.00% per annum with respect to LIBOR Loans, and (b) 7.00% per annum for Base Rate Loans.
Appraisal means a written appraisal of the Mortgaged Property ordered by Administrative Agent and prepared by an independent MAI appraiser acceptable to Administrative Agent and subject to Administrative Agents customary independent appraisal requirements and prepared in compliance with all applicable regulatory requirements, including the Financial Institutions Recovery, Reform and Enforcement Act of 1989, as amended from time to time, subject to review and adjustment consistent with Administrative Agents standard practices.
Approved Fund means any Fund that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender, or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of any entity that administers or manages a Lender.
Assignment and Assumption Agreement means an Assignment and Assumption entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 11.6), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in substantially the form of Exhibit A or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.
Bail-In Action means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an Affected Financial Institution.
Bail-In Legislation means, (a) with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law, rule, regulation or requirement for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule., and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 (as amended from time to time) and any other law, regulation or rule applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (other than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).
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Bankruptcy Code means the Bankruptcy Code of 1978.
Bankruptcy Event means with respect to a Person, any of the events of the type described or referred to in Section 9.1(e) or Section 9.1(f).
Base Rate means, at any time, the highest of (a) the Prime Rate, (b) the Federal Funds Rate plus 0.50% and (c) the LIBOR Market Index Rate plus 1.0%; each change in the Base Rate shall take effect simultaneously with the corresponding change or changes in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Rate or the LIBOR Market Index Rate (provided that clause (c) shall not be applicable during any period in which LIBOR is unavailable or unascertainable); provided, however that the Base Rate shall not be less than 2.0% per annum.
Base Rate Loan means a Term Loan (or any portion thereof) bearing interest at a rate based on the Base Rate.
Beneficial Ownership Certification means a certification regarding beneficial ownership as required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.
Beneficial Ownership Regulation means 31 C.F.R. § 1010.230.
Benefit Arrangement means at any time an employee benefit plan within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA which is not a Benefit Plan or a Multiemployer Plan and which is maintained or otherwise contributed to by any member of the ERISA Group.
Benefit Plan means at any time an employee pension benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan) which is covered by Title IV of ERISA or subject to the minimum funding standards under Section 412 of the Internal Revenue Code and either (i) is maintained, or contributed to, by any member of the ERISA Group for employees of any member of the ERISA Group or (ii) has at any time within the preceding six years been maintained, or contributed to, by any Person which was at such time a member of the ERISA Group for employees of any Person which was at such time a member of the ERISA Group.
Borrower means each of PREIT, PREIT-RUBIN and the Parent, individually and collectively, and shall include their respective successors and permitted assigns.
Borrower Information has the meaning given that term in Section 2.6(c).
Budgeted Cash Receipts means the sum of all cash receipts projected to be received by the Borrowers from its Subsidiaries during the relevant period of determination (excluding any borrowings under this Agreement) as set forth across from the line-item in the Loan Budget titled Total Cash Receipts.
Budgeted Company-Side Professional Disbursement Amounts means the sum of all cash disbursements projected to be made by the Borrower during the relevant period of determination as set forth across from the line-item in the Loan Budget titled Professional Fees (Company), as determined in a manner consistent with the Loan Budget.
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Budgeted Debt Service Disbursement Amounts means the sum of all cash disbursements projected to be made by the Borrower during the relevant period of determination as set forth across from the line-item in the Loan Budget titled Total Debt Service, as determined a manner consistent with the Loan Budget.
Budgeted Disbursement Amounts means the sum of all cash disbursements projected to be made by the Borrowers during the relevant period of determination as set forth across from the line-items in the Loan Budget titled Total Cash Disbursements, as determined in a manner consistent with the Loan Budget.
Budgeted Restructuring Related Amounts means the sum of all cash disbursements projected to be made by the Borrower during the relevant period of determination as set forth across from the line-item in the Loan Budget titled Restructuring Related Amounts, as determined in a manner consistent with the Loan Budget.
Business Day means (i) a day of the week (but not a Saturday, Sunday or holiday) on which the offices of the Administrative Agent in San Francisco, California are open to the public for carrying on substantially all of the Administrative Agents business functions, and (ii) if such day relates to a LIBOR Loan, or any Base Rate Loan as to which the interest rate is determined by reference to LIBOR, any such day that is also a day on which dealings in Dollars are transacted in the London interbank market. Unless specifically referenced in this Agreement as a Business Day, all references to days shall be to calendar days.
Capital Event means (a) any transaction in which the Borrower, Guarantor, any Subsidiary of the Borrower, or any joint venture directly or indirectly owned by the Borrower or Guarantor, (i) refinances or incurs any Indebtedness, (ii) sells, transfers or otherwise disposes (including pursuant to a sale-leaseback transaction) of any property or asset, (iii) forms a joint venture, or (iv) issues private or public equity, stock or other financial instrument, (b) any casualty or other insured damage to, or any taking under power of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceeding of, any property or asset of the Borrower, Guarantor, any Subsidiary of the Borrower, or any joint venture directly or indirectly owned by the Borrower or Guarantor, or (c) any other transaction entered into for the purposes of generating cash to recapitalize the Borrowers balance sheet, provided, that notwithstanding the foregoing, no Excluded Stimulus Transaction shall be a Capital Event.
Capitalized Lease Obligation means obligations under a lease that are required to be capitalized for financial reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP. The amount of a Capitalized Lease Obligation is the capitalized amount of such obligation determined in accordance with GAAP.
Cash Equivalents means: (a) securities issued, guaranteed or insured by the United States of America or any of its agencies with maturities of not more than one year from the date acquired; (b) certificates of deposit with maturities of not more than one year from the date acquired issued by a United States federal or state chartered commercial bank of recognized standing, or a commercial bank organized under the laws of any other country which is a member of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, or a political subdivision of any such country, acting through a branch or agency, which bank has capital and unimpaired surplus in excess of $500,000,000 and which bank or its holding company has a short-term commercial paper rating of at least A-2 or the equivalent by S&P or at least P-2 or the equivalent by Moodys; (c) reverse repurchase agreements with terms of not more than seven days from the date acquired, for securities of the type described in clause (a) above and entered into only with commercial banks having the qualifications described in clause (b) above; (d) commercial paper issued by any Person incorporated under the laws of the United States of America or any State thereof and rated at least A-2 or the equivalent thereof by S&P or at least P-2 or the equivalent thereof by Moodys, in
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each case with maturities of not more than one year from the date acquired; and (e) investments in money market funds registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, which have net assets of at least $500,000,000 and at least 85% of whose assets consist of securities and other obligations of the type described in clauses (a) through (d) above.
Collateral means the collateral security for the Secured Obligations pledged or granted pursuant to the Security Documents.
Collateral Agreement means the collateral agreement of even date herewith executed by the Loan Parties in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Secured Parties, which shall be in form and substance acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
Commitment means a Term Loan Commitment.
Commodity Exchange Act means the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.).
Connection Income Taxes means Other Connection Taxes that are imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated) or that are franchise Taxes or branch profits Taxes.
Continue, Continuation and Continued each refers to the continuation of a LIBOR Loan from one Interest Period to another Interest Period pursuant to Section 2.11.
Control means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. Controlling and Controlled have meanings correlative thereto.
Convert, Conversion and Converted each refers to the conversion of a Loan of one Type into a Loan of another Type pursuant to Section 2.12.
Credit Event means any of the following: (a) the making (or deemed making) of any Loan, (b) the continuation of a LIBOR Loan, and (c) the Conversion of a Base Rate Loan into a LIBOR Loan.
Debtor Relief Laws means the Bankruptcy Code, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar Applicable Laws relating to the relief of debtors in the United States of America or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect.
Default means any of the events specified in Section 9.1, whether or not there has been satisfied any requirement for the giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both.
Defaulting Lender means, subject to Section 3.9(e), any Lender that (a) has failed to (i) fund all or any portion of its Loans within two (2) Business Days of the date such Loans were required to be funded hereunder unless such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower in writing that such failure is the result of such Lenders determination that one or more conditions precedent to funding set forth in Article V (each of which conditions precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing) has not been satisfied, or (ii) pay to the Administrative Agent or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder within two (2) Business Days of the date when due, (b) has notified the Borrower or the Administrative Agent in writing that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations hereunder, or has made a public statement to that effect (unless such writing or public statement relates to such Lenders obligation to fund a Loan hereunder and states that such position is based on such Lenders determination that a condition precedent to funding set
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forth in Article V (which condition precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing or public statement) cannot be satisfied), (c) has failed, within 3 Business Days after written request by the Administrative Agent or the Borrower, to confirm in writing to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that it will comply with its prospective funding obligations hereunder (provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon receipt of such written confirmation by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower), or (d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of a proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, (ii) had appointed for it a receiver, custodian, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other state or federal regulatory authority acting in such a capacity or (iii) become the subject of a Bail-in Action; provided that a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any Equity Interest in that Lender or any direct or indirect parent company thereof by a Governmental Authority so long as such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Lender with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States of America or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Lender (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Lender. Any determination by the Administrative Agent that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender under any one or more of clauses (a) through (d) above shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender (subject to Section 3.9(e)) upon delivery of written notice of such determination to the Borrower and each Lender.
Deposit Account Control Agreements means, with respect to each deposit account that is required by the Collateral Agreement to be subject to a control agreement, a deposit account control agreement executed by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent as the secured party thereto, and the deposit bank, as each may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
Disbursement Instruction Agreement means an agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit F, as the same may be amended, restated or modified from time to time with the prior written approval of the Administrative Agent.
Dollars or $ means the lawful currency of the United States of America.
EEA Financial Institution means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.
EEA Member Country means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
EEA Resolution Authority means any public administrative authority or any person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.
Effective Date means the later of (a) the Agreement Date and (b) the date on which all of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 5.1 shall have been fulfilled or waived in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.7.
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Eligible Assignee means (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender, (c) an Approved Fund and (d) any other Person (other than a natural person); provided, that notwithstanding the foregoing, Eligible Assignee shall not include (A) a Borrower or any of its respective Affiliates or Subsidiaries, or (B) an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund that (1) if organized under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, does not have total assets in excess of $5,000,000,000, or if organized under the laws of any other country or a political subdivision thereof, is not organized in such a country that is a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, does not have total assets in excess of $10,000,000,000, or does not act through a branch or agency located in the United States or (2) does not have a rating of BBB or higher by S&P, Baa2 or higher by Moodys or the equivalent or higher of either such rating by another rating agency acceptable to the Administrative Agent with respect to such Affiliate of a Lender or Approved Funds (or if such Affiliate or Approved Fund is a Subsidiary, such Affiliates or Approved Funds parents) senior unsecured long term indebtedness.
Equity Interest means, with respect to any Person (a) any share of preferred stock, common stock, units or other capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, (b) any warrant, option or other right for the purchase or other acquisition from such Person of any share of preferred stock, common stock, units or other capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person whether or not certificated, (c) any security convertible into or exchangeable for any preferred stock, common stock, units or other share of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person or warrant, right or option for the purchase or other acquisition from such Person of such shares or units (or such other interests), and (d) any other ownership or profit interest in such Person (including, without limitation, partnership, member or trust interests therein), whether voting or nonvoting, and whether or not such share, unit, warrant, option, right or other interest is authorized or otherwise existing on any date of determination.
Equity Issuance means any issuance or sale by a Person of any Equity Interest.
ERISA means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as in effect from time to time.
ERISA Event means, with respect to the ERISA Group, (a) any reportable event as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA with respect to a Benefit Plan (other than an event for which the 30-day notice period is waived); (b) the withdrawal of a member of the ERISA Group from a Benefit Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which it was a substantial employer as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA or a cessation of operations that is treated as such a withdrawal under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (c) the incurrence by a member of the ERISA Group of any liability with respect to the withdrawal or partial withdrawal from any Multiemployer Plan; (d) the incurrence by any member of the ERISA Group of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Benefit Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (e) the institution of proceedings to terminate a Benefit Plan or Multiemployer Plan by the PBGC; (f) the failure by any member of the ERISA Group to make when due required contributions to a Multiemployer Plan or Benefit Plan unless such failure is cured within 30 days or the filing pursuant to Section 412(c) of the Internal Revenue Code or Section 302(c) of ERISA of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard; (g) the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Benefit Plan or Multiemployer Plan under Section 4042 of ERISA or the imposition of liability under Section 4069 or 4212(c) of ERISA; (h) the receipt by any member of the ERISA Group of any notice or the receipt by any Multiemployer Plan from any member of the ERISA Group of any notice, concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent (within the meaning of Section 4245 of ERISA), in reorganization (within the meaning of Section 4241 of ERISA), or in critical status (within the meaning of Section 432 of the Internal Revenue Code or Section 305 of ERISA); (i) the imposition of any liability
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under Title IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon any member of the ERISA Group or the imposition of a Lien in favor of the PBGC under Title IV of ERISA upon any member of the ERISA Group; or (j) a determination that a Benefit Plan is in at risk status (within the meaning of Section 430 of the Internal Revenue Code or Section 303 of ERISA).
ERISA Group means each Borrower, the other Subsidiaries and all members of a controlled group of corporations and all trades or businesses (whether or not incorporated) under common control that, together with the Borrower, are treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Internal Revenue Code.
EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person), as in effect from time to time.
Eurodollar Reserve Percentage means, for any day, the percentage which is in effect for such day as prescribed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor) for determining the maximum reserve requirement (including, without limitation, any basic, supplemental or emergency reserves) in respect of eurocurrency liabilities or any similar category of liabilities for a member bank of the Federal Reserve System in New York City.
Event of Default means any of the events specified in Section 9.1, provided that any requirement for notice or lapse of time or any other condition has been satisfied.
Excluded Stimulus Transaction means any loans, equity investments, grants or other transaction pursuant to which the Borrower, Guarantor, any Subsidiary of the Borrower, or any joint venture directly or indirectly owned by the Borrower or Guarantor receives funds in connection with local, state or federal COVID-19 stimulus efforts.
Excluded Subsidiary means any (a) Subsidiary (i) which holds title to assets which are or are to become collateral for any Secured Indebtedness of such Subsidiary, is an owner of the Equity Interests of a Subsidiary holding title to such assets (but has no assets other than such Equity Interests and other assets of nominal value incidental thereto), or is required to be a single purpose entity in connection with any Secured Indebtedness and (ii) which is prohibited from Guarantying the Indebtedness of any other Person pursuant to (A) any document, instrument or agreement evidencing such Secured Indebtedness, (B) a provision of such Subsidiarys organizational documents which provision was included in such Subsidiarys organizational documents as a condition to the extension of such Secured Indebtedness or (C) any fiduciary obligation owing to the holders of an Equity Interest in such Subsidiary and imposed under Applicable Law or (b) Non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary that is prohibited from Guarantying the Indebtedness of any Person other than a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of such Non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary pursuant to (i) such Non-Wholly Owned Subsidiarys organizational documents as a condition to the negotiated business arrangement with the holder of an Equity Interest in such Non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary or (ii) any fiduciary obligation owing to the holders of an Equity Interest in such Non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary and imposed under Applicable Law.
Excluded Taxes means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to a Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to a Recipient, (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of such Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its applicable lending office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) in the case of a Lender, U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender with
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respect to an applicable interest in a Loan or Commitment pursuant to an Applicable Law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender acquires such interest in the Loan or Commitment (other than pursuant to an assignment request by the Borrower under Section 4.6) or (ii) such Lender changes its lending office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 3.10, amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lenders assignor immediately before such Lender became a party hereto or to such Lender immediately before it changed its lending office, (c) Taxes attributable to such Recipients failure to comply with Section 3.10(g) and (d) any U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.
Existing Term Loan Agreement means that certain Seven-Year Term Loan Agreement, dated as of January 8, 2014 (as amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect as of the date hereof, including the Seventh Amendment to Existing Term Loan Agreement), by and among PREIT, PREIT-RUBIN, the Parent, the financial institutions party thereto as Lenders, Wells Fargo, as Administrative Agent, and the other parties thereto.
Existing Revolving Credit Agreement means that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of May 24, 2018 (as amended, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect as of the date hereof, including the Second Amendment to Existing Revolving Credit Agreement), by and among PREIT, PREIT-RUBIN, the Parent, the financial institutions party thereto as Lenders, Wells Fargo, as Administrative Agent, and the other parties thereto.
FATCA means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Internal Revenue Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(i) of the Internal Revenue Code and any fiscal or regulatory legislation or rules adopted pursuant to any intergovernmental agreement, treaty or convention among Governmental Authorities and implementing such sections of the Internal Revenue Code.
Federal Funds Rate means, for any period, a fluctuating interest rate per annum equal for each day during such period to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System, as published for such day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, for the immediately preceding Business Day) by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day which is a Business Day, the average of the quotations for such day on such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three Federal Funds brokers of recognized standing selected by the Administrative Agent. If the Federal Funds Rate determined as provided above would be less than zero, the Federal Funds Rate shall be deemed to be zero.
Fees means the fees and commissions provided for or referred to in Section 3.5 and any other fees payable by the Borrower hereunder or under any Loan Document.
Foreign Lender means (a) if the Borrower is a U.S. Person, a Lender that is not a U.S. Person, and (b) if the Borrower is not a U.S. Person, a Lender that is resident or organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which the Borrower is resident for tax purposes.
Fund means any Person (other than a natural person) that is (or will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business.
GAAP means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such other entity as may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession in the United States of America, which are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination.
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Governmental Approvals means all authorizations, consents, approvals, permits, licenses and exemptions of, registrations and filings with, and reports to, all Governmental Authorities.
Governmental Authority means any national, state or local government (whether domestic or foreign), any political subdivision thereof or any other governmental, quasi-governmental, judicial, administrative, public or statutory instrumentality, authority, body, agency, bureau, commission, board, department or other entity (including, without limitation, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Comptroller of the Currency or the Federal Reserve Board, any central bank or any comparable authority) exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank), or any arbitrator with authority to bind a party at law.
Guarantor means any Person that is party to the Guaranty as a Guarantor.
Guaranty, Guaranteed or to Guarantee as applied to any obligation means and includes: (a) a guaranty (other than by endorsement of negotiable instruments for collection in the ordinary course of business), directly or indirectly, in any manner, of any part or all of such obligation, or (b) an agreement, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, and whether or not constituting a guaranty, the practical effect of which is to assure the payment or performance (or payment of damages in the event of nonperformance) of any part or all of such obligation whether by: (i) the purchase of securities or obligations, (ii) the purchase, sale or lease (as lessee or lessor) of property or the purchase or sale of services primarily for the purpose of enabling the obligor with respect to such obligation to make any payment or performance (or payment of damages in the event of nonperformance) of or on account of any part or all of such obligation, or to assure the owner of such obligation against loss, (iii) the supplying of funds to or in any other manner investing in the obligor with respect to such obligation, (iv) repayment of amounts drawn down by beneficiaries of letters of credit, or (v) the supplying of funds to or investing in a Person on account of all or any part of such Persons obligation under a Guaranty of any obligation or indemnifying or holding harmless, in any way, such Person against any part or all of such obligation. As the context requires, Guaranty shall also mean the guaranty executed and delivered pursuant to Section 5.1 of this Agreement or Section 7.15(a)(ii) of the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement as incorporated herein by Section 7.1 of this Agreement and substantially in the form of Exhibit B.
Indebtedness means, with respect to a Person, at the time of computation thereof, all of the following (without duplication): (a) obligations of such Person in respect of money borrowed or for the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than trade debt incurred in the ordinary course of business); (b) obligations of such Person, whether or not for money borrowed (i) represented by notes payable, or drafts accepted, in each case representing extensions of credit, (ii) evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, or (iii) constituting purchase money indebtedness, conditional sales contracts, title retention debt instruments or other similar instruments, upon which interest charges are customarily paid or that are issued or assumed as full or partial payment for property; (c) all master lease obligations; (d) Capitalized Lease Obligations of such Person; (e) all reimbursement obligations of such Person under and in respect of any letters of credit or acceptances that have been presented for payment net of any cash collateral provided therefor; (f) all obligations of such Person to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise make any payment in respect of any Mandatorily Redeemable Stock issued by such Person or any other Person; (g) all Indebtedness of other Persons which (i) such Person has Guaranteed (other than Guarantees which are solely Guarantees of performance and not of payment and other Guarantees of such Person for liabilities arising from Nonrecourse Exceptions) or is otherwise
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recourse to such Person or (ii) is secured by a Lien on any property of such Person; provided, that such Indebtedness shall be limited to the value of such property so encumbered; and (h) the Recourse Share of all Indebtedness of any partnership of which such Person is a general partner. For purposes of this definition preferred equity (other than Mandatorily Redeemable Stock) of a Person shall not be considered to be Indebtedness.
Indemnified Taxes means (a) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower or any other Loan Party under any Loan Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in the immediately preceding clause (a), Other Taxes.
Initial Borrowing has the meaning given that term in Section 2.2(a)(ii).
Initial Borrowing Amount means, with respect to the principal amount of the Initial Borrowing, an amount equal to (a) $20,000,000 plus (b) the aggregate amount of all closing costs incurred by the Borrower as of the Effective Date in connection with the transactions contemplated under this Agreement (b) minus (c) the aggregate amount of unrestricted cash of the Borrower as of the date of such Initial Borrowing.
Initial Loan Budget means a 13-week cash flow budget that sets forth Budgeted Cash Receipts, Budgeted Disbursement Amounts, and Budgeted Restructuring Related Amounts, which such Initial Loan Budget shall be in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
Interest Period means with respect to any LIBOR Loan, the period commencing on the date of the borrowing of such LIBOR Loan and ending on the date numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that is one month thereafter. The duration of each Interest Period shall be one month. In no event shall an Interest Period of a Loan extend beyond the Term Loan Maturity Date, as applicable. Whenever the last day of any Interest Period would otherwise occur on a day other than a Business Day, the last day of such Interest Period shall be extended to occur on the next succeeding Business Day; provided, however, that if such extension would cause the last day of such Interest Period to occur in the next following calendar month, the last day of such Interest Period shall occur on the next preceding Business Day.
Internal Revenue Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
Investment means, with respect to any Person, any acquisition or investment (whether or not of a controlling interest) by such Person, whether by means of any of the following: (a) the purchase or other acquisition of any Equity Interest in another Person, (b) a loan, advance or extension of credit to, capital contribution to, Guaranty of Indebtedness of, or purchase or other acquisition of any Indebtedness of, another Person, including any partnership or joint venture interest in such other Person, or (c) the purchase or other acquisition (in one transaction or a series of transactions) of assets of another Person that constitute the business or a division or operating unit of another Person. Any commitment to make an Investment in any other Person, as well as any option of another Person to require an Investment in such Person, shall constitute an Investment. Except as expressly provided otherwise, for purposes of determining compliance with any covenant contained in a Loan Document, the amount of any Investment shall be the amount actually invested, without adjustment for subsequent increases or decreases in the value of such Investment. The foregoing shall not include advances and allowances to tenants of a Person in the ordinary course of business.
Lender means each financial institution from time to time party hereto as a Lender together with its respective successors and permitted assigns.
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Lending Office means, for each Lender and for each Type of Loan, the office of such Lender specified in such Lenders Administrative Questionnaire or in the applicable Assignment and Assumption Agreement, or such other office of such Lender as such Lender may notify the Administrative Agent in writing from time to time.
LIBOR means, with respect to any LIBOR Loan for any Interest Period, the rate of interest obtained by dividing (i) the rate of interest per annum determined on the basis of the rate as set by the ICE Benchmark Administration (ICE)(or the successor thereto if ICE is no longer making such rate available) for deposits in Dollars for a period equal to the applicable Interest Period which appears on Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page (or any applicable successor page) at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days prior to the first day of the applicable Interest Period by (ii) a percentage equal to 1 minus the Eurodollar Reserve Percentage. If, for any reason, the rate referred to in the preceding clause (i) does not appear on Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page (or any applicable successor page), then the rate to be used for such clause (i) shall be determined by the Administrative Agent to be the arithmetic average of the rate per annum at which deposits in Dollars would be offered by first class banks in the London interbank market to the Administrative Agent at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days prior to the first day of the applicable Interest Period for a period equal to such Interest Period. Any change in the maximum rate of reserves described in the preceding clause (ii) shall result in a change in LIBOR on the date on which such change in such maximum rate becomes effective. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) in no event shall LIBOR (including, without limitation, any Replacement Rate with respect thereto) be less than 1.0%, and (y) unless otherwise specified in any amendment to this Agreement entered into accordance with Section 4.2(b), in the event that a Replacement Rate with respect to LIBOR is implemented then all references herein to LIBOR shall be deemed references to such Replacement Rate.
LIBOR Loan means a Term Loan (or any portion thereof) (other than a Base Rate Loan) bearing interest at a rate based on LIBOR.
LIBOR Market Index Rate means, for any day, LIBOR as of that day that would be applicable for a LIBOR Loan having a one-month Interest Period determined at approximately 10:00 a.m. Central time for such day (rather than 11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period as otherwise provided in the definition of LIBOR), or if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day; provided that, in respect of the Term Loans, in no event shall the LIBOR Market Index Rate shall be less than 1.00% per annum. The LIBOR Market Index Rate shall be determined on a daily basis.
Lien as applied to the property of any Person means: (a) any security interest, encumbrance, mortgage, deed to secure debt, deed of trust, pledge, lien, charge or lease constituting a Capitalized Lease Obligation, conditional sale or other title retention agreement, or other security title or encumbrance of any kind in respect of any property of such Person, or upon the income or profits therefrom; (b) any arrangement, express or implied, under which any property of such Person is transferred, sequestered or otherwise identified for the purpose of subjecting the same to the payment of Indebtedness or performance of any other obligation in priority to the payment of the general, unsecured creditors of such Person; (c) the filing of any financing statement under the Uniform Commercial Code or its equivalent in any jurisdiction, excluding any financing statement filed to give notice of the existence of an operating lease; and (d) any agreement by such Person to grant, give or otherwise convey any of the foregoing.
Loan means a Term Loan.
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Loan Budget means initially, the Initial Loan Budget delivered pursuant to Section 5.1(a)(xiii) until such budget is replaced in accordance with Section 7.3(a), and thereafter the most recent budget to become effective in accordance with Section 7.3(a).
Loan Budget Variance Report means a report provided by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent each week beginning the first full week after the Effective Date (a) showing, in each case, on a line item by line item and cumulative basis, the amounts in the Loan Budget constituting the Actual Cash Receipts, the Actual Disbursement Amounts, the Actual Restructuring Related Amounts and the Actual Debt Service Disbursement Amounts as of the Friday of the week prior to the applicable Variance Report Date, (b) noting therein all variances in the Loan Budget, on a line item by line item basis and a cumulative basis, and providing explanations for such variances for such period as set forth in the Loan Budget as in effect for such period, (c) starting with the report relating to the fourth full week following the Effective Date and on each Variance Report Date for each Variance Testing Period thereafter, certifying compliance or non-compliance with Sections 7.3(a)(ii) and 7.3(b) for such period, (d) including explanations for all material variances and violations, if any, of such covenant and if any such violation exists, setting forth the actions which the Borrower has taken or intends to take with respect thereto, and (e) which such reports shall be certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower and shall be in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
Loan Document means this Agreement, each Note, the Guaranty, the Security Documents and each other document or instrument now or hereafter executed and delivered by a Loan Party in connection with, pursuant to or relating to this Agreement.
Loan Party means each Borrower and each Guarantor.
Mandatorily Redeemable Stock means, with respect to any Person, any Equity Interest of such Person which by the terms of such Equity Interest (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable or exercisable), upon the happening of any event or otherwise, (a) matures or is mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise (other than an Equity Interest to the extent redeemable in exchange for common stock or other equivalent common Equity Interests at the option of the issuer of such Equity Interest or any Person controlling such issuer), (b) is convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for Indebtedness or Mandatorily Redeemable Stock, or (c) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or part (other than an Equity Interest which is redeemable solely in exchange for common stock or other equivalent common Equity Interests), in each case on or prior to the date on which all Loans are scheduled to be due and payable in full.
Material Adverse Effect means a materially adverse effect on (a) the business, assets, liabilities, financial condition, results of operations or business prospects of PREIT and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, or the Parent and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, (b) the legal ability of the Borrower or any other Loan Party that is a Material Subsidiary to perform its obligations under any Loan Document to which it is a party, (c) the validity or enforceability of any of the Loan Documents, (d) the rights and remedies of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent under any of such Loan Documents or (e) the timely payment of the principal of or interest on the Loans or other amounts payable in connection therewith.
Material Indebtedness has the meaning given that term in Section 9.1(d)(i).
Material Subsidiary means a Subsidiary (other than any Borrower) to which more than $25,000,000 of Gross Asset Value (as defined in the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement) is directly or indirectly attributable.
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Mortgage means a mortgage, deed of trust, deed to secure debt or similar security instrument made or to be made by a Person owning an interest in real estate granting a Lien on such interest in real estate to Administrative Agent for its benefit and the benefit of the other Lenders as security for the payment of Indebtedness.
Mortgaged Property means each Property identified on Schedule 1.1(b) which is subject to a Mortgage.
Multiemployer Plan means at any time a multiemployer plan within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA to which any member of the ERISA Group is then making or accruing an obligation to make contributions or has within the preceding six plan years made contributions, including for these purposes any Person which ceased to be a member of the ERISA Group during such six year period.
Net Cash Proceeds means, with respect to any Capital Event by a Person, the aggregate amount of all cash received by such Person in respect of such Capital Event less (a) the repayment of any secured indebtedness attributable to the applicable Property, and (b) legal fees, accountants fees, underwriting discounts and commissions and other customary fees and expenses actually incurred by or on behalf of such Person in connection with such Capital Event and paid or payable to a Person other than an Affiliate of such Person.
Net Proceeds means with respect to an Equity Issuance by a Person, the aggregate amount of all cash or the Fair Market Value of all other property received by such Person in respect of such Equity Issuance net of investment banking fees, legal fees, accountants fees, underwriting discounts and commissions and other customary fees and expenses actually incurred by or on behalf of such Person in connection with such Equity Issuance and paid or payable to a Person other than an Affiliate of such Person.
Non-Consenting Lender means any Lender that does not approve any consent, waiver or amendment that (a) requires the approval of all affected Lenders in accordance with the terms of Section 11.7(b) and (b) has been approved by the Requisite Lenders.
Non-Defaulting Lender means, at any time, each Lender that is not a Defaulting Lender at such time.
Nonrecourse Exceptions means, with respect to Nonrecourse Indebtedness, reasonable and customary exceptions for fraud, willful misrepresentation, misapplication of funds (including misappropriation of security deposits and failure to apply rents to operating expenses or debt service), indemnities relating to environmental matters and waste of property constituting security for such Nonrecourse Indebtedness, post-default interest, attorneys fees and other costs of collection to the extent not covered by the value of the property constituting security for such Nonrecourse Indebtedness and other similar exceptions to nonrecourse liability. Nonrecourse Exceptions shall also include the contingent liability of a Person in respect of Nonrecourse Indebtedness of another Person providing for liability arising upon the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event with respect to such other Person or the occurrence of other contingent events such as a violation of a due on sale clause or a due on finance clause or a violation of special purpose entity covenants (whether such liability arises under a Guaranty of such Nonrecourse Indebtedness enforceable only upon the occurrence of such Bankruptcy Event or such other contingent event, as an obligation to pay to the holder of such Nonrecourse Indebtedness damages resulting from the occurrence of such Bankruptcy Event or other contingent event, or otherwise); provided, however, upon the occurrence of any Bankruptcy Event or other contingent event with respect to such other Person, or once such liability shall otherwise cease to be contingent, then such liability shall no longer be considered to be Nonrecourse Indebtedness.
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Nonrecourse Indebtedness means, with respect to a Person, (a) Indebtedness for borrowed money in respect of which recourse for payment (except for obligations in respect to Nonrecourse Exceptions) is contractually limited to specific assets of such Person encumbered by a Lien securing such Indebtedness or (b) if such Person is a Single Asset Entity, any Indebtedness for borrowed money of such Person. Liability of a Person under (i) a Guaranty of Nonrecourse Exceptions or (ii) completion guarantees for Projects Under Development, to the extent relating to the Nonrecourse Indebtedness of another Person, shall not, in and of itself, prevent such liability from being characterized as Nonrecourse Indebtedness. For the purposes of this definition of Nonrecourse Indebtedness, the terms Single Asset Entity and Projects Under Development shall have the definitions given to them in the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement.
Note means a Term Note.
Notice of Continuation means a notice substantially in the form of Exhibit C (or such other form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and containing the information required in such Exhibit) to be delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.11 evidencing the Borrowers request for the Continuation of a LIBOR Loan.
Notice of Conversion means a notice substantially in the form of Exhibit D (or such other form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and containing the information required in such Exhibit) to be delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.12 evidencing the Borrowers request for the Conversion of a Loan from one Type to another Type.
Notice of Borrowing means a notice substantially in the form of Exhibit E (or such other form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and containing the information required in such Exhibit) to be delivered to the Administrative Agent evidencing the Borrowers request for the borrowing of Term Loans.
Obligations means, individually and collectively: (a) the aggregate principal balance of, and all accrued and unpaid interest on, the Loans; and (b) all other indebtedness, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties owing to the Administrative Agent, or any Lender of every kind, nature and description, under or in respect of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, including, without limitation, the Fees, any other fees payable under any Loan Document and indemnification obligations, whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, due or not due, contractual or tortious, liquidated or unliquidated, and whether or not evidenced by any promissory note.
OFAC means the U.S. Department of the Treasurys Office of Foreign Assets Control.
Other Connection Taxes means, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan or Loan Document).
Other Taxes means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment.
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Parent has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph hereof and shall include the Parents successors and permitted assigns.
Participant has the meaning given that term in Section 11.6(d).
Participant Register has the meaning given that term in Section 11.6(d).
Patriot Act means The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (Title III of Pub. L. No. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)).
PBGC means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and any successor agency.
Permitted Liens means, with respect to any asset or property of a Person, (a)(i) Liens securing taxes, assessments and other charges or levies imposed by any Governmental Authority (excluding any Lien imposed pursuant to any of the provisions of ERISA or pursuant to any Environmental Laws) or (ii) the claims of materialmen, mechanics, carriers, warehousemen or landlords for labor, materials, supplies or rentals incurred in the ordinary course of business, which, in the case of both clauses (i) and (ii), are not at the time required to be paid or discharged under Section 7.7 of the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement as incorporated herein by Section 7.1 of this Agreement; (b) Liens consisting of deposits or pledges made, in the ordinary course of business, in connection with, or to secure payment of, obligations under workers compensation, unemployment insurance or similar Applicable Laws; (c) Liens consisting of encumbrances in the nature of zoning restrictions, easements, covenants, and rights or restrictions of record on the use of real property, which do not materially detract from the value of such property or impair the intended use thereof in the business of such Person including without limitation, easements, covenants and restrictions created in connection with the sale and/or development of real property of any Borrower, Subsidiary or Guarantor pursuant to the Real Estate Sale Agreements; (d) the rights of tenants under leases or subleases not materially interfering with the ordinary conduct of business of such Person; (e) the rights of the purchasers under the Real Estate Sale Agreements not materially interfering with the ordinary conduct of business of such Person, including, without limitation, the exercise of any option rights thereunder; (f) Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent for its benefit and the Lenders; (g) in the case of any Collateral encumbered by a Security Document, other Liens expressly permitted by such Security Document, (h) all liens, encumbrances and other matters disclosed in the title insurance policies delivered in connection with the Mortgaged Properties, (i) Liens securing judgments so long as the judgment it secures does not give rise to an Event of Default under Section 9.1(h); (j) Liens securing the payment and performance of obligations of any Borrower, Subsidiary or Guarantor under the Real Estate Sale Agreements and any other agreements for the sale and/or development of real property of any Borrower, Subsidiary or Guarantor; (k) Liens securing Capitalized Lease Obligations and purchase money Indebtedness and (l) Liens existing on the Effective Date and securing Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 8.3(a)(ix).
Permitted Variance means 20% of the sum of (i) Budgeted Disbursement Amounts, (ii) Budgeted Company Side Professional Fees, and (iii) Budgeted Debt Service Payments for the relevant Variance Testing Period.
Person means any natural person, corporation, limited partnership, general partnership, joint stock company, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, joint venture, association, company, trust, bank, trust company, land trust, business trust or other organization, whether or not a legal entity, or any other nongovernmental entity, or any Governmental Authority.
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Pledge Agreement means the Pledge Agreement dated as of the date hereof, entered into by the Borrower and certain Subsidiaries of the Borrower in favor of the Administrative Agent, for its benefit and for the benefit of the other Lenders.
PM Gallery Loan Agreement means that certain Term Loan Agreement, dated as of January 22, 2018, as amended by that certain First Modification to Term Loan Agreement, dated as of July 8, 2019, by and among PM GALLERY LP, a Delaware limited partnership, as borrower, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as administrative agent, and the financial institutions from time to time party thereto.
Post-Default Rate means a rate per annum equal to 5.0 % plus the rate applicable to LIBOR Loans.
PREIT has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph hereof and shall include PREITs successors and permitted assigns.
PREIT-RUBIN has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph hereof and shall include PREIT-RUBINs successors and permitted assigns.
Prime Rate means, at any time, the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by the Lender acting as the Administrative Agent as its prime rate. Each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective as of the opening of business on the day such change in such prime rate occurs. The rate announced publicly by the Administrative Agent as its prime rate is an index or base rate and shall not necessarily be its lowest or best rate charged to its customers or other banks.
Principal Office means the office of the Administrative Agent located at 600 South 4th St., 9th Floor, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415, or any other subsequent office that the Administrative Agent shall have specified by written notice to the Borrower and the Lenders as the Principal Office referred to herein, to which payments due are to be made and at which Loans will be disbursed.
Pro Rata Share means, as to each Lender, the ratio, expressed as a percentage of (a) the amount of such Lenders Term Loan Commitment plus (ii) the amount of such Lenders outstanding Term Loans to (b) (i) the aggregate amount of the Term Loan Commitments of all Lenders plus (ii) the aggregate amount of all outstanding Term Loans; provided, however, that if at the time of determination the Term Loan Commitments have terminated or been reduced to zero, the Pro Rata Share of each Lender shall be the ratio, expressed as a percentage of (A) the sum of the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans owing to such Lender as of such date to (B) the sum of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans of all Lenders as of such date. If at the time of determination the Commitments have been terminated or reduced to zero and there are no outstanding Loans, then the Pro Rata Shares of the Lenders shall be determined as of the most recent date on which Commitments were in effect or Loans were outstanding.
Protective Advance means all sums expended as determined by the Administrative Agent to be necessary or appropriate after the Borrowers fail to do so when required: (a) to protect the validity, enforceability, perfection or priority of the Liens in any of the Collateral and the instruments evidencing the Obligations; (b) to prevent the value of any Collateral from being materially diminished (assuming the lack of such a payment within the necessary time frame could potentially cause such Collateral to lose material value); or (c) to protect any of the Collateral from being materially damaged, impaired, mismanaged or taken, including, without limitation, any amounts expended in connection therewith in accordance with Section 10.9.
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Qualified Plan means a Benefit Arrangement that is intended to be tax-qualified under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Real Estate Sale Agreements means (a) that certain Agreement of Purchase and Sale between PR Magnolia LLC, PR Jacksonville Limited Partnership, PR CC Limited Partnership, PR Valley Limited Partnership, PR Valley Anchor-S LLC, PR Valley Anchor-M Limited Partnership, Moorestown Mall LLC, PR Moorestown Anchor-M, LLC and PR Moorestown Anchor-L&T, LLC, as seller, and Geyser Holdings, LLC, as buyer, dated February 25, 2020, (b) that certain Purchase and Sale Agreement between PR Exton Square Property, L.P., as seller and Hanover R.S. Limited Partnership, as buyer, dated January 27, 2020, (c) that certain Purchase and Sale Agreement between PR Plymouth Meeting Associates PC, L.P., PR AEKI Plymouth, L.P., PR Plymouth Meeting Limited Partnership, as seller, and Hanover R.S. Limited Partnership, as buyer, dated February 10, 2020, (d) that certain Purchase and Sale Agreement between PR Springfield Town Center LLC, as seller and Hanover R.S. Limited Partnership, as buyer, dated February 25, 2020, (e) that certain Real Estate Purchase and Sale Agreement between PR Prince Georges Plaza, LLC, as seller and Avalonbay Communities, Inc., as buyer, dated February 25, 2020, (f) that certain Purchase and Sale Agreement between WG Park, L.P., as seller, and Bel Canto Asset Growth Fund LLC, as buyer, dated February 25, 2020, (g) that certain Purchase and Sale Agreement between PR Moorestown Anchor M, LLC and PR Moorestown Anchor L&T, LLC, as seller, and Briad Development, LLC, as buyer, dated September 6, 2019, (h) that certain Real Estate Purchase and Sale Agreement between PR Woodland Limited Partnership, a seller, and Development Link, LLC, as buyer, dated January 31, 2019, (i) that certain Purchase and Sale Agreement between PR Sunrise Outparcel 2 LLC, as seller, and 2020 Equities, LLC, as buyer, dated July 21, 2020, (j) an agreement to be entered into between Cherry Hill Center LLC, as seller, and MCB Acquisition Company, Angelo Gordon Real Estate Inc., NRP and/or any assignees thereof, as buyer, for certain parcels of the property commonly known as Cherry Hill Mall, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, (k) an agreement to be entered into between Franconia II LLC, as seller, and Intermountain Management, LLC or its assignee, as buyer, for certain parcels of the property commonly known as Springfield Town Center, Springfield, Virginia, and (l) an agreement to be entered into between Moorestown Mall, LLC, as seller, and MCB Acquisition Company, Angelo Gordon Real Estate Inc., NRP and/or any assignees thereof, as buyer, for certain parcels of the property commonly known as Moorestown Mall, Moorestown, NJ, as each of the agreements set forth in subsections (a) through (l) may be amended, supplemented, or assigned from time to time.
Recipient means (a) the Administrative Agent, and (b) any Lender.
Register has the meaning given that term in Section 11.6(c).
Regulatory Change means, with respect to any Lender, any change effective after the Agreement Date (or with respect to any Lender that becomes a party to this Agreement after the Agreement Date, any change effective after the date on which such Lender becomes a party hereto) in Applicable Law (including without limitation, Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) or the adoption or making after such date of any interpretation, directive or request applying to a class of banks, including such Lender, of or under any Applicable Law (whether or not having the force of law and whether or not failure to comply therewith would be unlawful) by any Governmental Authority or monetary authority charged with the interpretation or administration thereof or compliance by any Lender with any request or directive regarding capital adequacy. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (a) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (b) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a Regulatory Change, regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.
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Replacement Rate has the meaning given that term in Section 4.2(b).
Requisite Lenders means, as of any date, Lenders having more than 66 2/3% of the aggregate amount of the outstanding Term Loans of all Lenders; provided that (i) in determining such percentage at any given time, all then existing Defaulting Lenders will be disregarded and excluded, and (ii) at all times when two or more Lenders (excluding Defaulting Lenders) are party to this Agreement, the term Requisite Lenders shall in no event mean less than two Lenders.
Resolution Authority means (a) any EEA Resolution Authority or (b) any UK Resolution Authority.
Responsible Officer means with respect to a Borrower or any other Subsidiary, the chief executive officer, president and/or chief financial officer or treasurer of such Borrower, or the corresponding officer of each such Subsidiary, or if any of the foregoing is a partnership, such officer of its general partner.
Restricted Group means the Parent, each other Borrower, each Guarantor and each of their respective Subsidiaries.
Restricted Payment means: (a) any dividend or other distribution, direct or indirect, on account of any Equity Interest of the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries now or hereafter outstanding, except a dividend payable to holders of Equity Interests solely in the form of Equity Interests of the Parent or any such Subsidiary, as the case may be; (b) any redemption, conversion, exchange, retirement, sinking fund or similar payment, purchase or other acquisition for value, direct or indirect, of any shares or similar units of any class of stock or other equity interest of the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries now or hereafter outstanding; and (c) any payment made to retire, or to obtain the surrender of, any outstanding warrants, options or other rights to acquire shares or similar units of any class of stock or other equity interest of the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries now or hereafter outstanding.
Second Amendment to Existing Revolving Credit Agreement means that certain Second Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of July 27, 2020, by and among PREIT, PREIT-RUBIN, the Parent, the financial institutions party thereto as Lenders, Wells Fargo, as Administrative Agent, and the other parties thereto.
Secured Obligations means, collectively, the Obligations.
Secured Parties means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, each co-agent or sub-agent appointed by the Administrative Agent from time to time, any other holder from time to time of any of any Secured Obligations and, in each case, their respective successors and permitted assigns.
Securities Act means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time, together with all rules and regulations issued thereunder.
Security Documents means the collective reference to the Collateral Agreement, the Mortgages, the Pledge Agreements, the Deposit Account Control Agreements, and each other agreement or writing pursuant to which any Loan Party pledges or grants a security interest in any property or assets securing the Secured Obligations.
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Seventh Amendment to Existing Term Loan Agreement means that certain Seventh Amendment to Seven-Year Term Loan Agreement, dated as of July 27, 2020, by and among PREIT, PREIT-RUBIN, the Parent, the financial institutions party thereto as Lenders, Wells Fargo, as Administrative Agent, and the other parties thereto.
Subsidiary means, for any Person, any corporation, partnership or other entity (other than a condominium association) of which at least a majority of the securities or other ownership interests having by the terms thereof ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors or other persons performing similar functions of such corporation, partnership or other entity (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) is at the time directly or indirectly owned or controlled by such Person or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person or by such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person.
Taxes means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.
Term Loan means a loan made by a Lender to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.2.
Term Loan Commitment means, as to each Lender, such Lenders obligation to make Term Loans prior to the Term Loan Maturity Date pursuant to Section 2.2, in an amount up to, but not exceeding the amount set forth for such Lender on Schedule I as such Lenders Term Loan Commitment Amount, as the same may be reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.16.
Term Loan Commitment Percentage means, as to each Lender, the ratio, expressed as a percentage, of (i) the aggregate unpaid principal amount of such Lenders Term Loans to (ii) the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Term Loans.
Term Loan Maturity Date means the date that is the earlier of (a) September 30, 2020, or (b) the date the Obligations have been accelerated in accordance with the terms herein.
Term Loan Specified Event of Default means, without limiting the rights and remedies of the Lenders with respect to any Event of Default hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents, any Loan Party asserts, challenges or initiates a suit or action, (a) contesting or seeking to invalidate the payment or lien priority of the Term Loans as set forth herein, or (b) asserting that any other Indebtedness or Lien is senior in right of payment or lien priority to the Term Loans, or such payment or lien priority of the Term Loans is held to be junior to any other Indebtedness (in each case, other than any such Indebtedness incurred in the amount of and solely to finance the purchase or lease of any asset and secured by a Lien solely on such asset to the extent permitted hereunder).
Term Note has the meaning given that term in Section 2.13(a).
Type with respect to Loan, or any portion thereof, refers to whether such Loan or portion is a LIBOR Loan or a Base Rate Loan.
UCC means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in any applicable jurisdiction.
UK Financial Institution means any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA Rulebook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Prudential Regulation Authority) or any person subject to IFPRU 11.6 of the FCA Handbook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, which includes certain credit institutions and investment firms, and certain affiliates of such credit institutions or investment firms.
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UK Resolution Authority means the Bank of England or any other public administrative authority having responsibility for the resolution of any UK Financial Institution.
U.S. Person means any Person that is a United States person as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Internal Revenue Code.
U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.10(g)(ii)(B)(III).
Variance Report Date has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 7.3(a)(iii).
Variance Testing Period means the rolling four-week calendar period up to and through the Friday of the week most recently ended prior to the applicable Variance Report Date (provided that, the first Variance Testing Period shall include the entire period from the first Saturday after the Effective Date through the Friday of the week most recently ended prior to the applicable Variance Report Date).
Wells Fargo means Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, and its successors and permitted assigns.
Withdrawal Liability means any liability as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from a Multiemployer Plan as such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.
Withholding Agent means (a) the Borrower, (b) any other Loan Party and (c) the Administrative Agent, as applicable.
Write-Down and Conversion Powers means, (a) with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, any powers of the applicable Resolution Authority under the Bail-In Legislation to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of any UK Financial Institution or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers.
Section 1.2. General; References to Times.
Unless otherwise indicated (other than in the definition of the term GAAP), all accounting terms, ratios and measurements shall be interpreted or determined in accordance with GAAP as in effect as of May 24, 2018. Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein shall be construed, and all computations of amounts and ratios referred to herein shall be made, without giving effect to any election under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 159 (or any other financial accounting standard promulgated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board having a similar result or effect) to value any Indebtedness or other liabilities of the Parent, any other Borrower or any other Subsidiary at fair value, as defined therein. References in this Agreement to Sections, Articles, Exhibits and Schedules are to sections, articles, exhibits and schedules herein and hereto unless otherwise indicated. References in this Agreement to any document,
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instrument or agreement (a) shall include all exhibits, schedules and other attachments thereto, (b) shall include, unless otherwise indicated, all documents, instruments or agreements issued or executed in replacement thereof, to the extent permitted hereby and (c) shall mean, unless otherwise indicated, such document, instrument or agreement, or replacement thereto, as amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time to the extent permitted hereby and in effect at any given time. References in this Agreement to any law shall include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing or interpreting such law and any reference to any law or regulation shall, unless otherwise specified, refer to such law or regulation as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time. Wherever from the context it appears appropriate, each term stated in either the singular or plural shall include the singular and plural, and pronouns stated in the masculine, feminine or neuter gender shall include the masculine, the feminine and the neuter. Unless explicitly set forth to the contrary, a reference to Subsidiary means a Subsidiary of the Parent or a Subsidiary of such Subsidiary and a reference to an Affiliate means a reference to an Affiliate of the Parent. Titles and captions of Articles, Sections, subsections and clauses in this Agreement are for convenience only, and neither limit nor amplify the provisions of this Agreement. Unless otherwise indicated, all references to time are references to Central time. Certifications as to the matters contained in any certificate delivered by an officer of a Borrower to any or all of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders under the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Document are made in such officers capacity as an officer of such Borrower and not in such officers individual capacity.
Section 1.3. Rates.
The Administrative Agent does not warrant or accept responsibility for, and shall not have any liability with respect to, the administration, submission or any other matter related to the rates in the definition of LIBOR.
Section 1.4. Incorporation by Reference.
To the extent that any term or provision of the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement is incorporated by reference into this Agreement (a) each such reference shall be based on the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement as in effect on the date hereof without giving effect to any amendment, waiver, supplement or other modification thereto made after the date hereof unless such amendment, waiver, supplement or other modification is consented or agreed to in writing by the Requisite Lenders or all of the Lenders, as applicable, and (b) any reference within such term or provision to Administrative Agent, Lender, Loans, Borrower, Guarantor or other similar defined terms shall be deemed to mean each such defined term as set forth in this Agreement as the context requires. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any term or provision of the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement that is incorporated herein by reference conflicts with any express term set forth in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, the express terms of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, as applicable, shall govern and control.
Section 1.5. Divisions.
For all purposes under the Loan Documents, in connection with any division or plan of division under Delaware law (or any comparable event under a different jurisdictions laws): (a) if any asset, right, obligation or liability of any Person becomes the asset, right, obligation or liability of a different Person, then it shall be deemed to have been transferred from the original Person to the subsequent Person, and (b) if any new Person comes into existence, such new Person shall be deemed to have been organized on the first date of its existence by the holders of its Equity Interests at such time.
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ARTICLE II. CREDIT FACILITIES
Section 2.1. [Reserved].
Section 2.2. Term Loans.
(a) Making of Term Loans.
(i) Borrowings Generally. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Lender severally and not jointly agrees to make Term Loans denominated in Dollars to the Borrower during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the Term Loan Maturity Date, in the aggregate principal amount of up to, but not exceeding, such Lenders Term Loan Commitment. Subject to subsection (ii) and (iii) below, each borrowing of Loans shall be in an aggregate minimum amount of $1,000,000 and integral multiples of $250,000 in excess thereof. Upon a Lenders funding of a Loan, such Lenders Commitment shall be permanently reduced by the principal amount of such Loan. On the Term Loan Maturity Date, unless previously terminated, the Commitment of each Lender shall terminate. Any Loan or portion of a Loan made under this Section and repaid or prepaid may not be re-borrowed.
(ii) Initial Borrowing. The first borrowing of Loans (the Initial Borrowing) shall be in an amount equal to the Initial Borrowing Amount.
(iii) Subsequent Borrowings. After the Initial Borrowing, each subsequent borrowing of Loans will be in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed (A) the sum of the aggregate Budgeted Disbursement Amounts plus the aggregate Budgeted Restructuring Related Amounts plus the aggregate amount set forth across from the line-item in the Loan Budget then in effect titled Total Debt Service, in each case for the week following the proposed borrowing date in accordance with the Loan Budget then in effect multiplied by (B) 120% (or, in the case of this subclause (B), such larger amount as is otherwise approved by the Administrative Agent). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower shall only be permitted to draw when Borrowers unrestricted cash and cash equivalents is equal to or less than $12,500,000.
(b) Requests for Term Loans. Not later than 11:00 a.m. Central time at least 3 Business Days prior to the anticipated borrowing date, the Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent notice requesting that the Lenders make the Term Loans on the proposed borrowing date and specifying the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans to be borrowed, the Type of the Term Loans, if such Term Loans are to be LIBOR Loans, the initial Interest Period for the Term Loans and the date of such borrowing, which shall be a Business Day. Such notice shall be irrevocable once given and binding on the Borrower. Upon receipt of such notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender.
(c) Funding of Term Loans. Each Lender shall deposit an amount equal to the Term Loan to be made by such Lender to the Borrower with the Administrative Agent at the Principal Office, in immediately available funds, not later than 11:00 a.m. Central time on the proposed borrowing date. Subject to fulfillment of all applicable conditions set forth herein, the Administrative Agent shall make available to the Borrower in the account specified by the Borrower in the Disbursement Instruction Agreement, not later than 2:00 p.m. Central time on the proposed borrowing date, the proceeds of such amounts received by the Administrative Agent. The Borrower may not reborrow any portion of the Term Loans once repaid.
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Section 2.3. Mandatory Principal Repayments.
At any time that the Borrower, any Guarantor, any Subsidiary thereof or any unconsolidated joint venture thereof (to the extent that the Borrower or Guarantor has the ability to require a distribution from such joint venture of its portion of such Net Cash Proceeds) receives Net Cash Proceeds from any Capital Event, in addition to any required monthly amortization payments, the Borrower shall prepay the Term Loans under this Agreement in an amount equal to 100% of such Net Cash Proceeds (or with respect to any such joint venture, the portion of such Net Cash Proceeds distributed to the Borrower or any Guarantor), within three (3) Business Days of the Borrowers, such Guarantors, such Subsidiarys or such joint ventures receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds.
Section 2.4. [Reserved].
Section 2.5. [Reserved].
Section 2.6. Rates and Payment of Interest on Loans.
(a) Rates. The Borrower promises to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Loan made by such Lender, for the period from and including the date of the making of such Loan to but excluding the date such Loan shall be paid in full, at the following per annum rates:
(i) during such periods as such Loan is a Base Rate Loan, at the Base Rate (as in effect from time to time), plus the Applicable Margin; and
(ii) during such periods as such Loan is a LIBOR Loan, at LIBOR for such Loan for the Interest Period therefor (from the first day to, but excluding, the last day of such Interest Period), plus the Applicable Margin.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, during the continuance of an Event of Default the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender interest at the Post-Default Rate on the outstanding principal amount of each Loan made by such Lender and on any other amount payable by the Borrower hereunder or under the Notes held by such Lender to or for the account of such Lender (including without limitation, accrued but unpaid interest to the extent permitted under Applicable Law).
(b) Payment of Interest. All accrued and unpaid interest on the outstanding principal amount of each Loan shall be payable in cash (i) monthly in arrears on the 10th day of each month, commencing on August 11, 2020 and (ii) on any date on which the principal balance of such Loan is due and payable in full (whether at maturity, due to acceleration or otherwise). Interest payable at the Post-Default Rate shall be payable from time to time on demand. All determinations by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate hereunder shall be conclusive and binding on the Lenders and the Borrower for all purposes, absent manifest error.
Section 2.7. Number of Interest Periods.
There may be no more than five (5) different Interest Periods for LIBOR Loans outstanding at the same time.
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Section 2.8. Repayment of Loans.
The Borrower promises to repay the entire outstanding principal amount of, and all accrued but unpaid interest on, the Term Loans on the Term Loan Maturity Date.
Section 2.9. Late Charges.
If any payment required by the Borrower under this Agreement is not paid within 10 days after it becomes due and payable, the Requisite Lenders may, by notice to the Borrower, require that the Borrower pay a late charge for late payment to compensate the Lenders for the loss of use of funds and for the expenses of handling the delinquent payment, in an amount not to exceed four percent (4.0%) of such delinquent payment. Such late charge shall be paid in any event not later than the due date of the next subsequent installment of principal and/or interest. In the event the maturity of the Obligations hereunder occurs or is accelerated pursuant to Section 9.2, this Section shall apply only to payments overdue prior to the time of such acceleration. This Section shall not be deemed to be a waiver of the Lenders right to accelerate payment of any of the Obligations as permitted under the terms of this Agreement.
Section 2.10. Optional Prepayments.
Subject to Section 4.4, the Borrower may prepay any Loan, in whole or part, at any time without premium or penalty. The Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent at least 3 Business Days prior written notice of the prepayment of any Loan. Each voluntary prepayment of Loans by the Borrower shall be in an aggregate minimum amount of $1,000,000 and integral multiples of $100,000 in excess thereof.
Section 2.11. Continuation.
So long as no Event of Default exists, the Borrower may on any Business Day, with respect to any LIBOR Loan, elect to maintain such LIBOR Loan or any portion thereof as a LIBOR Loan by selecting a new Interest Period for such LIBOR Loan or any portion thereof. Each Continuation of LIBOR Loans shall be in an aggregate minimum amount of $1,000,000 and integral multiples of $250,000 in excess of that amount. Each new Interest Period selected under this Section shall commence on the last day of the immediately preceding Interest Period. Each selection of a new Interest Period shall be made by the Borrower giving to the Administrative Agent a Notice of Continuation not later than 11:00 a.m. (Central time) on the third Business Day prior to the date of any such Continuation. Such notice of a Continuation shall be by telephone (confirmed immediately in writing), telecopy, electronic mail or other similar form of communication, confirmed immediately in writing if by telephone, in the form of a Notice of Continuation, specifying (a) the proposed date of such Continuation, (b) the LIBOR Loan and portion thereof subject to such Continuation, and (c) the duration of the selected Interest Period, all of which of the foregoing (a), (b) and (c) shall be specified in such manner as is necessary to comply with all limitations on Loans outstanding hereunder. Each Notice of Continuation shall be irrevocable by and binding on the Borrower once given. Promptly after receipt of a Notice of Continuation, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender by telecopy, or other similar form of transmission of the proposed Continuation. If the Borrower shall fail to select in a timely manner a new Interest Period for any LIBOR Loan owing by it in accordance with this Section, such Loan will automatically, on the last day of the current Interest Period therefor, Continue as a LIBOR Loan having an Interest Period of one month; provided, however, that if a Default or Event of Default exists, such Loan will automatically, on the last day of the current Interest Period therefor, Convert into a Base Rate Loan notwithstanding the first sentence of Section 2.12 or the Borrowers failure to comply with any terms of this Section.
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Section 2.12. Conversion.
So long as no Event of Default exists, the Borrower may on any Business Day, upon the Borrowers giving of a Notice of Conversion to the Administrative Agent, Convert all or a portion of a Loan of one Type into a Loan of another Type. Any Conversion of a LIBOR Loan into a Base Rate Loan shall be made on, and only on, the last day of an Interest Period for such LIBOR Loan. Each Conversion of Base Rate Loans into LIBOR Loans shall be in an aggregate minimum amount of $1,000,000 and integral multiples of $250,000 in excess of that amount. Each such Notice of Conversion shall be given not later than 11:00 a.m. (Central time) one Business Day prior to the date of any proposed Conversion into Base Rate Loans and three Business Days prior to the date of any proposed Conversion into LIBOR Loans. Promptly after receipt of a Notice of Conversion, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender by telecopy, or other similar form of transmission of the proposed Conversion. Subject to the restrictions specified above, each Notice of Conversion shall be by telephone (confirmed immediately in writing), telecopy, electronic mail or other similar form of communication in the form of a Notice of Conversion specifying (a) the requested date of such Conversion, (b) the Type of Loan to be Converted, (c) the portion of such Type of Loan to be Converted, (d) the Type of Loan such Loan is to be Converted into, and (e) if such Conversion is into a LIBOR Loan, the requested duration of the Interest Period of such Loan. Each Notice of Conversion shall be irrevocable by and binding on the Borrower once given.
Section 2.13. Notes.
(a) Notes. Except in the case of a Lender that has notified the Administrative Agent in writing that it elects not to receive a Term Loan Note, the Term Loans made by each Lender shall, in addition to this Agreement, also be evidenced by a promissory note substantially in the form of Exhibit G (each a Term Loan Note), payable to the order of such Lender in a principal amount equal to the amount of its Term Loan Commitment, as applicable, as originally in effect and otherwise duly completed.
(b) Records. The date, amount, interest rate, Type and duration of Interest Periods (if applicable) of each Loan made by each Lender to the Borrower and each payment made on account of the principal thereof, shall be recorded by such Lender on its books and such entries shall be binding on the Borrower absent manifest error; provided, however, that (i) the failure of a Lender to make any such record shall not affect the obligations of the Borrower under any of the Loan Documents to which it is a party and (ii) if there is a discrepancy between such records of a Lender and the statements of accounts maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 3.8, in the absence of manifest error, the statements of account maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 3.8 shall be controlling.
(c) Lost, Stolen, Destroyed or Mutilated Notes. Upon receipt by the Borrower of (i) written notice from a Lender that a Note of such Lender has been lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated, and (ii)(A) in the case of loss, theft or destruction, an unsecured agreement of indemnity from such Lender in form reasonably satisfactory to the Borrower or (B) in the case of mutilation, upon surrender and cancellation of such Note, the Borrower shall at its own expense execute and deliver to such Lender a new Note dated the date of such lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated Note.
Section 2.14. [Reserved].
Section 2.15. [Reserved].
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Section 2.16. Voluntary Reduction of the Term Loan Commitments.
The Borrower may terminate or reduce the amount of the Term Loan Commitments at any time and from time to time without penalty or premium upon not less than 5 Business Days prior written notice to the Administrative Agent of each such termination or reduction, which notice shall specify the effective date thereof and the amount of any such reduction (which in the case of any partial reduction of the Term Loan Commitments shall not be less than $5,000,000 and integral multiples of $1,000,000 in excess of that amount in the aggregate) and shall be irrevocable once given and effective only upon receipt by the Administrative Agent (such notice, a Commitment Reduction Notice); provided, however, that if the Borrower seeks to reduce the aggregate amount of the Term Loan Commitments below $5,000,000 then, unless the Administrative Agent and all of the Lenders have previously agreed in writing, the Term Loan Commitments shall be reduced to zero. Promptly after receipt of a Commitment Reduction Notice, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the proposed termination or Term Loan Commitment reduction. The Term Loan Commitments, once reduced or terminated pursuant to this Section, may not be increased. The Borrower shall pay all interest and fees, on the Term Loans accrued to the date of such reduction or termination of the Term Loan Commitments to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders, including but not limited to any applicable compensation due to each Lender in accordance with Section 4.4.
Section 2.17. Joint and Several Liability of the Borrower.
(a) The obligations of each Borrower hereunder and under the other Loan Documents to which any Borrower is a party shall be joint and several, and accordingly, each Borrower confirms that it is liable for the full amount of the Obligations, regardless of whether incurred by such Borrower or another Borrower.
(b) Each Borrower represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that each Borrower, though separate legal entities, are mutually dependent on each other in the conduct of their respective businesses as an integrated operation and have determined it to be in their mutual best interests to obtain financing from the Lenders through their collective efforts.
(c) Neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall be obligated or required before enforcing any Loan Document against a Borrower: (a) to pursue any right or remedy any of them may have against any other Borrower, any Guarantor or any other Person or commence any suit or other proceeding against any other Borrower, any Guarantor or any other Person in any court or other tribunal; (b) to make any claim in a liquidation or bankruptcy of any other Borrower, any Guarantor or any other Person; or (c) to make demand of any other Borrower, any Guarantor or any other Person or to enforce or seek to enforce or realize upon any collateral security held by the Administrative Agent or any Lender which may secure any of the Obligations.
(d) It is the intent of each Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that in any proceeding of the types described in Section 9.1(e) or Section 9.1(f), a Borrowers maximum obligation hereunder shall equal, but not exceed, the maximum amount which would not otherwise cause the obligations of such Borrower hereunder to be avoidable or unenforceable against such Borrower in such proceeding as a result of Applicable Law, including without limitation, (i) Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code, as amended and (ii) any state fraudulent transfer or fraudulent conveyance act or statute applied in such proceeding, whether by virtue of Section 544 of the Bankruptcy Code, as amended, or otherwise. The Applicable Laws under which the possible avoidance or unenforceability of the obligations of such Borrower hereunder shall be determined in any such proceeding are referred to as the Avoidance Provisions. Accordingly, to the extent that the obligations of a Borrower hereunder would otherwise be subject to avoidance under the Avoidance Provisions, the maximum Obligations for which such Borrower shall be liable hereunder shall be reduced to that amount which, as of the time any of the Obligations are deemed to have been incurred under the Avoidance Provisions, would not cause the obligations of such
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Borrower hereunder, to be subject to avoidance under the Avoidance Provisions. This subsection is intended solely to preserve the rights of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereunder to the maximum extent that would not cause the obligations of a Borrower hereunder to be subject to avoidance under the Avoidance Provisions, and no Borrower or any other Person shall have any right or claim under this Section that would not otherwise be available to such Person under the Avoidance Provisions.
(e) To the extent that a Borrower shall be required hereunder to pay any portion of the Obligations exceeding the greater of (a) the amount of the value actually received by such Borrower and its Subsidiaries from the Loans and other Obligations and (b) the amount such Borrower would otherwise have paid if such Borrower had paid the aggregate amount of Obligations in the same proportion as such Borrowers net worth on the date enforcement is sought hereunder bears to the aggregate net worth of the Borrower on such date, then such Borrower shall be reimbursed by each other Borrower for the amount of such excess.
(f) Each Borrower assumes all responsibility for being and keeping itself informed of the financial condition of each other Borrower, and of all other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of any of the Obligations and the nature, scope and extent of the risks that such Borrower assumes and incurs hereunder, and agrees that neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall have any duty whatsoever to advise any Borrower of information regarding such circumstances or risks.
Section 2.18. Actions of the Borrower.
Each Borrower hereby appoints each other Borrower to act as its agent for all purposes under the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, with respect to all matters related to the borrowing and repayment of Loans). Each Borrower acknowledges and agrees that (i) one Borrower may execute such documents as such Borrower deems appropriate in its sole discretion, and with respect to any such document executed by only one Borrower, each Borrower shall be bound by and obligated by all of the terms of any such document, (ii) any notice or other communication delivered by the Administrative Agent or any Lender hereunder to any Borrower shall be deemed to have been delivered to each Borrower and (iii) the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall accept (and shall be permitted to rely on) any document or agreement executed by each Borrower or any Borrower individually. Each Borrower agrees that any action taken by one Borrower without the consent of, or notice to, any other Borrower shall not release or discharge any Borrower from its obligations hereunder.
Section 2.19. [Reserved].
Section 2.20. Funds Transfer Disbursements.
The Borrower hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to disburse the proceeds of any Loan made by the Lenders pursuant to the Loan Documents as requested by an authorized representative of PREIT to any of the accounts designated in the Disbursement Instruction Agreement.
ARTICLE III. PAYMENTS, FEES AND OTHER GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 3.1. Payments.
(a) Payments by Borrower. Except to the extent otherwise provided herein, all payments of principal, interest and other amounts to be made by the Borrower under this Agreement, the Notes or any other Loan Document shall be made in Dollars, in immediately available funds, without setoff, deduction or counterclaim, to the Administrative Agent at the Principal Office, not later than 1:00 p.m. Central time on the date on which such payment shall become due (each such payment made after such time on such
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due date to be deemed to have been made on the next succeeding Business Day). Subject to Section 9.5, the Borrower shall, at the time of making each payment under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, specify to the Administrative Agent the amounts payable by the Borrower hereunder to which such payment is to be applied. Each payment received by the Administrative Agent for the account of a Lender under this Agreement or any Note shall be paid to such Lender by wire transfer of immediately available funds in accordance with the wiring instructions provided by such Lender to the Administrative Agent from time to time, for the account of such Lender at the applicable Lending Office of such Lender. If the due date of any payment under this Agreement or any other Loan Document would otherwise fall on a day which is not a Business Day such date shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day and interest shall continue to accrue at the rate, if any, applicable to such payment for the period of such extension.
(b) Presumptions Regarding Payments by Borrower. Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due from the Borrower to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may (but shall not be obligated to), in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the applicable Lenders the amount due. In such event, if the Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent on demand that amount so distributed to such Lender, with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.
Section 3.2. Pro Rata Treatment.
Except to the extent otherwise provided herein: (a) each termination or reduction of the amount of the Term Loan Commitments under Section 2.16 shall be applied to the respective Term Loan Commitments of the Lenders, pro rata according to the amounts of their respective Term Loan Commitments; (b) the making of Term Loans under Section 2.2(a) shall be made from the Lenders, pro rata according to the amounts of their respective Term Loan Commitments; (c) each payment or prepayment of principal of Term Loans shall be made for the account of the Lenders pro rata in accordance with the respective unpaid principal amounts of the Term Loans held by them; (d) each payment of interest on Term Loans shall be made for the account of the Lenders pro rata in accordance with the amounts of interest on such Term Loans then due and payable to the respective Lenders; and (e) the Conversion or Continuation of Term Loans of a particular Type (other than Conversions provided for by Section 4.5) shall be made pro rata among the Lenders according to the amounts of their respective Term Loans and the then current Interest Period for each Lenders portion of each such Loan of such Type shall be coterminous. Any payment or prepayment of principal or interest made during the existence of an Event of Default shall be made for the account of the Lenders in accordance with the order set forth in Section 9.5.
Section 3.3. Sharing of Payments, Etc.
If a Lender shall obtain payment of any principal of, or interest on, any Loan under this Agreement or shall obtain payment on any other Obligation owing by any Loan Party through the exercise of any right of set-off, bankers lien or counterclaim or similar right or otherwise or through voluntary prepayments directly to a Lender or other payments made by the Borrower or any other Loan Party to a Lender not in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and such payment should be distributed to the Lenders in accordance with Section 3.2 or Section 9.5, such Lender shall promptly purchase from such other Lenders participations in (or, if and to the extent specified by such Lender,
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direct interests in) the Loans made by the other Lenders or other Obligations owed to such other Lenders in such amounts, and make such other adjustments from time to time as shall be equitable, to the end that all the Lenders shall share the benefit of such payment (net of any reasonable expenses which may actually be incurred by such Lender in obtaining or preserving such benefit) in accordance with the requirements of Section 3.2 or Section 9.5, as applicable. To such end, all the Lenders shall make appropriate adjustments among themselves (by the resale of participations sold or otherwise) if such payment is rescinded or must otherwise be restored. The Borrower agrees that any Lender so purchasing a participation (or direct interest) in the Loans or other Obligations owed to such other Lenders may exercise all rights of set-off, bankers lien, counterclaim or similar rights with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct holder of Loans in the amount of such participation. Nothing contained herein shall require any Lender to exercise any such right or shall affect the right of any Lender to exercise and retain the benefits of exercising, any such right with respect to any other indebtedness or obligation of the Borrower.
Section 3.4. Several Obligations.
No Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make a Loan or to perform any other obligation to be made or performed by such other Lender hereunder, and the failure of any Lender to make a Loan or to perform any other obligation to be made or performed by it hereunder shall not relieve the obligation of any other Lender to make any Loan or to perform any other obligation to be made or performed by such other Lender.
Section 3.5. Fees.
(a) Loan Fees. On the Effective Date, the Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent all loan fees as have been agreed to in writing by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent and as have been agreed to in writing by the Borrower and any Lender.
(b) Ticking Fee. The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender a ticking fee, which shall accrue 0.50% per annum on the daily amount of the remaining Term Loan Commitments during the period (i) commencing on the Effective Date (after giving effect to the initial Loans hereunder) and (ii) ending on the Term Loan Maturity Date (the date in this clause (ii) being referred to as the Ticking Fee End Date). Accrued and unpaid ticking fees shall be payable on the Ticking Fee End Date.
(c) Other Fees. The Borrower agrees to pay the administrative and other fees of the Administrative Agent as may be agreed to in writing from time to time by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
Section 3.6. Computations.
Unless otherwise expressly set forth herein, any accrued interest on any Loan, any Fees or other Obligations due hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days and the actual number of days elapsed.
Section 3.7. Usury.
In no event shall the amount of interest due or payable on the Loans or the other Obligations exceed the maximum rate of interest allowed by Applicable Law and, if any such payment is paid by the Borrower or any other Loan Party or received by any Lender, then such excess sum shall be credited as a payment of principal, unless the Borrower shall notify the respective Lender in writing that the Borrower
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elects to have such excess sum returned to it forthwith. It is the express intent of the parties hereto that the Borrower not pay and that the Lenders not receive, directly or indirectly, in any manner whatsoever, interest in excess of that which may be lawfully paid by the Borrower under Applicable Law. The parties hereto hereby agree and stipulate that the only charge imposed upon the Borrower for the use of money in connection with this Agreement is and shall be the interest specifically described in Section 2.6(a)(i) and Section 2.6(a)(ii). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the parties hereto further agree and stipulate that all agency fees, syndication fees, loan fees, letter of credit fees, facility fees, underwriting fees, default charges, late charges, funding or breakage charges, increased cost charges, attorneys fees and reimbursement for costs and expenses paid by the Administrative Agent or any Lender to third parties or for damages incurred by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, are charges made to compensate the Administrative Agent or any such Lender for underwriting or administrative services and costs or losses performed or incurred, and to be performed or incurred, by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in connection with this Agreement and under no circumstances shall be deemed to be charges for the use of money. Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, all fees and all charges, other than charges for the use of money, shall be fully earned and nonrefundable when due.
Section 3.8. Statements of Account.
The Administrative Agent will account to the Borrower monthly with a statement of Loans, accrued interest and Fees, charges and payments made pursuant to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and such account rendered by the Administrative Agent shall be deemed conclusive upon the Borrower absent manifest error. The failure of the Administrative Agent to deliver such a statement of accounts shall not relieve or discharge the Borrower from any of its obligations hereunder.
Section 3.9. Defaulting Lenders.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then, until such time as such Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, to the extent permitted by Applicable Law:
(a) Waivers and Amendments. Such Defaulting Lenders right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent with respect to this Agreement shall be restricted as set forth in the definition of Requisite Lenders and in Section 11.7.
(b) Defaulting Lender Waterfall. Any payment of principal, interest, Fees or other amounts received by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Defaulting Lender (whether voluntary or mandatory, at maturity, pursuant to Article IX or otherwise) or received by the Administrative Agent from a Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 11.4 shall be applied at such time or times as may be determined by the Administrative Agent as follows: first, to the payment of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent hereunder; second, as the Borrower may request (so long as no Default or Event of Default exists), to the funding of any Loan in respect of which such Defaulting Lender has failed to fund its portion thereof as required by this Agreement, as determined by the Administrative Agent; third, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Lenders as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by any Lender against such Defaulting Lender as a result of such Defaulting Lenders breach of its obligations under this Agreement; fourth, so long as no Default or Event of Default exists, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Borrower as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by the Borrower against such Defaulting Lender as a result of such Defaulting Lenders breach of its obligations under this Agreement; and fifth, to such Defaulting Lender or as otherwise directed by a court of competent jurisdiction. Any payments, prepayments or other amounts paid or payable to a Defaulting Lender that are applied (or held) to pay amounts owed by a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this subsection shall be deemed paid to and redirected by such Defaulting Lender, and each Lender irrevocably consents hereto.
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(c) Certain Fees. No Defaulting Lender shall be entitled to receive any Fee payable under Section 3.5(b) for any period during which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender (and the Borrower shall not be required to pay any such fee that otherwise would have been required to have been paid to that Defaulting Lender).
(d) Purchase of Defaulting Lenders Commitment. During any period that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender, the Borrower may, by the Borrower giving written notice thereof to the Administrative Agent, such Defaulting Lender and the other Lenders, demand that such Defaulting Lender assign its Commitment and Loans to an Eligible Assignee subject to and in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.6(b). No party hereto shall have any obligation whatsoever to initiate any such replacement or to assist in finding an Eligible Assignee. In addition, any Lender who is not a Defaulting Lender may, but shall not be obligated, in its sole discretion, to acquire the face amount of all or a portion of such Defaulting Lenders Commitment and Loans via an assignment subject to and in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.6(b). In connection with any such assignment, such Defaulting Lender shall promptly execute all documents reasonably requested to effect such assignment, including an appropriate Assignment and Assumption Agreement and, notwithstanding Section 11.6(b), shall pay to the Administrative Agent an assignment fee in the amount of $7,500. The exercise by the Borrower of its rights under this Section shall be at the Borrowers sole cost and expense and at no cost or expense to the Administrative Agent or any of the Lenders and shall not constitute a waiver or release of any claim against a Defaulting Lender.
(e) Defaulting Lender Cure. If the Borrower and the Administrative Agent agree in writing that a Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, the Administrative Agent will so notify the parties hereto, whereupon as of the effective date specified in such notice and subject to any conditions set forth therein, that Lender will, to the extent applicable, purchase at par that portion of outstanding Loans of the other Lenders or take such other actions as the Administrative Agent may determine to be necessary to cause the Loans to be held pro rata by the Lenders in accordance with their respective Term Loan Commitment Percentages, whereupon such Lender will cease to be a Defaulting Lender; provided that no adjustments will be made retroactively with respect to Fees accrued or payments made by or on behalf of the Borrower while that Lender was a Defaulting Lender; and provided, further, that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no change hereunder from Defaulting Lender to Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lenders having been a Defaulting Lender.
Section 3.10. Taxes.
(a) Defined Terms. For purposes of this Section, the term Applicable Law includes FATCA.
(b) Payments Free of Taxes. Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower or any other Loan Party under any Loan Document shall be made without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by Applicable Law. If any Applicable Law (as determined in the good faith discretion of an applicable Withholding Agent) requires the deduction or withholding of any Tax from any such payment by a Withholding Agent, then the applicable Withholding Agent shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding and shall timely pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with Applicable Law and, if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, then the sum payable by the Borrower or other applicable Loan Party shall be increased as necessary so that after such deduction or withholding has been made (including such deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section) the applicable Recipient receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deduction or withholding been made.
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(c) Payment of Other Taxes by the Borrower. The Borrower and the other Loan Parties shall timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with Applicable Law, or at the option of the Administrative Agent timely reimburse it for the payment of, any Other Taxes.
(d) Indemnification by the Borrower. The Borrower and the other Loan Parties shall jointly and severally indemnify each Recipient, within ten (10) days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) payable or paid by such Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to such Recipient and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(e) Indemnification by the Lenders. Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Administrative Agent, within 10 days after demand therefor, for (i) any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the extent that the Borrower or another Loan Party has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties to do so), (ii) any Taxes attributable to such Lenders failure to comply with the provisions of Section 11.6 relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (iii) any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent in connection with any Loan Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Loan Document or otherwise payable by the Administrative Agent to the Lender from any other source against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this subsection. The provisions of this subsection shall continue to inure to the benefit of an Administrative Agent following its resignation or removal as Administrative Agent.
(f) Evidence of Payments. As soon as practicable after any payment of Taxes by the Borrower or any other Loan Party to a Governmental Authority pursuant to this Section, the Borrower or such other Loan Party shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(g) Status of Lenders.
(i) Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to payments made under any Loan Document shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding. In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by Applicable Law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such
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Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in the immediately following clauses (ii)(A), (ii)(B) and (ii)(D)) shall not be required if in the Lenders reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.
(ii) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, in the event that the Borrower is a U.S. Person:
(A) any Lender that is a U.S. Person shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), an electronic copy (or an original if requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent) of an executed IRS Form W-9 (or any successor form) certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax;
(B) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), whichever of the following is applicable:
(I) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Loan Document, an electronic copy (or an original if requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent) of an executed IRS Form W-8BEN, or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the interest article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Loan Document, IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the business profits or other income article of such tax treaty;
(II) an electronic copy (or an original if requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent) of an executed IRS Form W-8ECI;
(III) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Internal Revenue Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit H-1 to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not a bank within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code, a 10 percent shareholder of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code, or a controlled foreign corporation described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code (a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate) and (y) an electronic copy (or an original if requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent) of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable,; or
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(IV) to the extent a Foreign Lender is not the beneficial owner, an electronic copy (or an original if requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent) of an executed IRS Form W-8IMY, accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI, IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit H-2 or Exhibit H-3, IRS Form W-9, and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable; provided that if the Foreign Lender is a partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Foreign Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Foreign Lender may provide a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit H-4 on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner;
(C) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), an electronic copy (or an original if requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent) of any other form prescribed by Applicable Law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. federal withholding Tax, duly completed, together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by Applicable Law to permit the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; and
(D) if a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Internal Revenue Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent at the time or times prescribed by Applicable Law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent such documentation prescribed by Applicable Law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Internal Revenue Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such Lenders obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this clause (D), FATCA shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.
Each Lender agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.
(h) Treatment of Certain Refunds. If any party determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified pursuant to this Section (including by the payment of additional amounts pursuant to this Section), it shall pay to the indemnifying party an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made under this Section with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) of such indemnified party and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund). Such indemnifying party, upon the request of such indemnified party, shall repay to such indemnified party the amount paid over pursuant to this
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subsection (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) in the event that such indemnified party is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this subsection, in no event will the indemnified party be required to pay any amount to an indemnifying party pursuant to this subsection the payment of which would place the indemnified party in a less favorable net after-Tax position than the indemnified party would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such Tax had never been paid. This subsection shall not be construed to require any indemnified party to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the indemnifying party or any other Person.
(i) Survival. Each partys obligations under this Section shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent or any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of the Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all obligations under any Loan Document.
ARTICLE IV. YIELD PROTECTION, ETC.
Section 4.1. Additional Costs; Capital Adequacy.
(a) Capital Adequacy. If any Lender reasonably determines that any Regulatory Change, compliance with any law or regulation or with any guideline or request from any central bank or other Governmental Authority (whether or not having the force of law) affects or would affect the amount of capital or liquidity required or expected to be maintained by such Lender, or any corporation controlling such Lender, as a consequence of, or with reference to, such Lenders Commitment or its making or maintaining Loans below the rate which such Lender or such corporation controlling such Lender could have achieved but for such compliance (taking into account the policies of such Lender or such corporation with regard to capital adequacy or liquidity), then the Borrower shall, from time to time, within thirty (30) calendar days after written demand by such Lender, pay to such Lender additional amounts sufficient to compensate such Lender or such corporation controlling such Lender to the extent that such Lender determines such increase in capital is allocable to such Lenders obligations hereunder.
(b) Additional Costs. In addition to, and not in limitation of the immediately preceding clause (a), the Borrower shall promptly pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of a Lender from time to time such amounts as such Lender may reasonably determine to be necessary to compensate such Lender for any costs incurred by such Lender that it reasonably determines are attributable to its making or maintaining of any LIBOR Loans or its obligation to make any LIBOR Loans hereunder, any reduction in any amount receivable by such Lender under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents in respect of any of such LIBOR Loans or such obligation or the maintenance by such Lender of capital in respect of its LIBOR Loans or its Commitment (such increases in costs and reductions in amounts receivable being herein called Additional Costs), resulting from any Regulatory Change that: (i) changes the basis of taxation of any amounts payable to such Lender under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents in respect of any of such LIBOR Loans or its Commitment (other than (A) Indemnified Taxes, (B) Taxes described in clauses (b) through (d) of the definition of Excluded Taxes and (C) Connection Income Taxes), or (ii) imposes or modifies any reserve, special deposit or similar requirements (excluding Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or other similar reserve requirement applicable to any other category of liabilities or category of extensions of credit or other assets by reference to which the interest rate on LIBOR Loans is determined) relating to any extensions of credit or other assets of, or any deposits with or other liabilities of, or other credit extended by, or any other acquisition of funds by such Lender (or its parent corporation), or any commitment of such Lender (including without limitation, the Commitment of such Lender hereunder) or (iii) has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on capital of such Lender to a level below that which such Lender could have achieved but for such Regulatory Change (taking into consideration such Lenders policies with respect to capital adequacy).
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(c) Lenders Suspension of LIBOR Loans. Without limiting the effect of the provisions of the immediately preceding subsections (a) and (b), if by reason of any Regulatory Change, any Lender either (i) incurs Additional Costs based on or measured by the excess above a specified level of the amount of a category of deposits or other liabilities of such Lender that includes deposits by reference to which the interest rate on LIBOR Loans is determined as provided in this Agreement or a category of extensions of credit or other assets of such Lender that includes LIBOR Loans or (ii) becomes subject to restrictions on the amount of such a category of liabilities or assets that it may hold, then, if such Lender so elects by notice to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), the obligation of such Lender to make or Continue, or to Convert Base Rate Loans into, LIBOR Loans hereunder shall be suspended until such Regulatory Change ceases to be in effect (in which case the provisions of Section 4.5 shall apply).
Section 4.2. Suspension of LIBOR Loans; Alternative Rate of Interest.
(a) Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding and unless and until a Replacement Rate is implemented in accordance with clause (b) below, if, on or prior to the determination of LIBOR for any Interest Period:
(i) the Administrative Agent shall reasonably determine (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that reasonable and adequate means do not exist for ascertaining LIBOR for such Interest Period;
(ii) the Administrative Agent reasonably determines (which determination shall be conclusive, absent manifest error) that quotations of interest rates for the relevant deposits referred to in the definition of LIBOR are not being provided in the relevant amounts or for the relevant maturities for purposes of determining rates of interest for LIBOR Loans as provided herein or is otherwise unable to determine LIBOR, or
(iii) the Administrative Agent reasonably determines (which determination shall be conclusive) that the relevant rates of interest referred to in the definition of LIBOR upon the basis of which the rate of interest for LIBOR Loans for such Interest Period is to be determined are not likely to adequately cover the cost to any Lender of making or maintaining LIBOR Loans for such Interest Period;
then the Administrative Agent shall give the Borrower and each Lender prompt notice thereof and, so long as such condition remains in effect, the Lenders shall be under no obligation to, and shall not, make additional or maintain LIBOR Loans, Continue LIBOR Loans or Convert Loans into LIBOR Loans and the Borrower shall, on the last day of each current Interest Period for each outstanding LIBOR Loan, either prepay such Loan or Convert such Loan into a Base Rate Loan.
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 4.2(a) above, if the Administrative Agent has made the determination (such determination to be conclusive absent manifest error) that (i) the circumstances described in Section 4.2(a)(i) or Section 4.2(a)(ii) have arisen and that such circumstances are unlikely to be temporary, (ii) any applicable interest rate specified herein is no longer a widely recognized benchmark rate for newly originated loans in the U.S. syndicated loan market in the applicable currency or (iii) the applicable supervisor or administrator (if any) of any applicable interest rate specified herein or any Governmental Authority having, or purporting to have, jurisdiction over the Administrative
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Agent has made a public statement identifying a specific date after which any applicable interest rate specified herein shall no longer be used for determining interest rates for loans in the U.S. syndicated loan market in the applicable currency, then the Administrative Agent may, to the extent practicable (in consultation with the Borrower and as determined by the Administrative Agent to be generally in accordance with similar situations in other transactions in which it is serving as administrative agent or otherwise consistent with market practice generally), establish a replacement interest rate (the Replacement Rate), in which case, the Replacement Rate shall, subject to the next two sentences, replace such applicable interest rate for all purposes under the Loan Documents unless and until (A) an event described in Section 4.2(a)(i), Section 4.2(a)(ii), Section 4.2(b)(i), Section 4.2(b)(ii) or Section 4.2(b)(iii) occurs with respect to the Replacement Rate or (B) the Administrative Agent (or the Requisite Lenders through the Administrative Agent) notifies the Borrower that the Replacement Rate does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to the Lenders of funding the Loans bearing interest at the Replacement Rate, and in which case, the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 4.2(a) shall apply to any Loans accruing interest at the Replacement Rate in the same manner as would apply to LIBOR Loans affected by the same circumstances. In connection with the establishment and application of the Replacement Rate, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be amended solely with the consent of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, as may be necessary or appropriate, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, to effect the provisions of this Section 4.2(b). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or the other Loan Documents (including, without limitation, Section 11.7), such amendment shall become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement so long as the Administrative Agent shall not have received, within five (5) Business Days of the delivery of such amendment to the Lenders, written notices from such Lenders that in the aggregate constitute Requisite Lenders, with each such notice stating that such Lender objects to such amendment (which such notice shall note with specificity the particular provisions of the amendment to which such Lender objects). To the extent the Replacement Rate is approved by the Administrative Agent in connection with this clause (b), the Replacement Rate shall be applied in a manner consistent with market practice; provided that, in each case, to the extent such market practice is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, such Replacement Rate shall be applied as otherwise reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent (it being understood that any such modification by the Administrative Agent shall not require the consent of, or consultation with, any of the Lenders).
Section 4.3. Illegality.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if any Lender shall determine (which determination shall be conclusive and binding) that it is unlawful for such Lender to honor its obligation to make or maintain LIBOR Loans hereunder, then such Lender shall promptly notify the Borrower thereof (with a copy of such notice to the Administrative Agent) and such Lenders obligation to make or Continue, or to Convert Base Rate Loans into, LIBOR Loans shall be suspended until such time as such Lender may again make and maintain LIBOR Loans (in which case the provisions of Section 4.5 shall be applicable).
Section 4.4. Compensation.
The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender, upon the request of such Lender through the Administrative Agent, such amount or amounts as shall be sufficient to compensate such Lender for any loss, cost or expense that such Lender reasonably determines is attributable to:
(a) any payment or prepayment (whether mandatory or optional) of a LIBOR Loan, or Conversion of a LIBOR Loan, made by such Lender for any reason (including, without limitation, acceleration) on a date other than the last day of the Interest Period for such Loan; or
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(b) any failure by the Borrower for any reason (including, without limitation, the failure of any of the applicable conditions precedent specified in Article V. to be satisfied) to borrow a LIBOR Loan from such Lender on the date for such borrowing, or to Convert a Base Rate Loan into a LIBOR Loan or Continue a LIBOR Loan on the requested date of such Conversion or Continuation.
Not in limitation of the foregoing, such compensation shall include, without limitation; in the case of a LIBOR Loan, an amount equal to the then present value of (i) the amount of interest that would have accrued on such LIBOR Loan for the remainder of the Interest Period at the rate applicable to such LIBOR Loan, less (ii) the amount of interest that would accrue on the same LIBOR Loan for the same period if LIBOR were set on the date on which such LIBOR Loan was repaid, prepaid or Converted or the date on which the Borrower failed to borrow, Convert or Continue such LIBOR Loan, as applicable, calculating present value by using as a discount rate LIBOR quoted on such date plus the Applicable Rate. Upon the Borrowers request (made through the Administrative Agent), any Lender seeking compensation under this Section shall provide the Borrower with a statement setting forth the basis for requesting such compensation and the method for determining the amount thereof. Any such statement shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
Section 4.5. Treatment of Affected Loans.
If the obligation of any Lender to make LIBOR Loans or to Continue, or to Convert Base Rate Loans into, LIBOR Loans shall be suspended pursuant to Section 4.1(c) or Section 4.3 then such Lenders LIBOR Loans shall be automatically Converted into Base Rate Loans on the last day(s) of the then current Interest Period(s) for LIBOR Loans (or, in the case of a Conversion required by Section 4.1(c) or Section 4.3 on such earlier date as such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, may specify to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent, as applicable)) and, unless and until such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, gives notice as provided below that the circumstances specified in Section 4.1(c) or Section 4.3 that gave rise to such Conversion no longer exist:
(a) to the extent that such Lenders LIBOR Loans have been so Converted, all payments and prepayments of principal that would otherwise be applied to such Lenders LIBOR Loans shall be applied instead to its Base Rate Loans; and
(b) all Loans that would otherwise be made or Continued by such Lender as LIBOR Loans shall be made or Continued instead as Base Rate Loans, and all Base Rate Loans of such Lender that would otherwise be Converted into LIBOR Loans shall remain as Base Rate Loans.
If such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, gives notice to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent, as applicable) that the circumstances specified in Section 4.1(c) or Section 4.3 that gave rise to the Conversion of such Lenders LIBOR Loans pursuant to this Section no longer exist (which such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, agrees to do promptly upon such circumstances ceasing to exist) at a time when LIBOR Loans made by other Lenders are outstanding, then such Lenders Base Rate Loans shall be automatically Converted, on the first day(s) of the next succeeding Interest Period(s) for such outstanding LIBOR Loans, to the extent necessary so that, after giving effect thereto, all Loans held by the Lenders holding LIBOR Loans and by such Lender are held pro rata (as to principal amounts, Types and Interest Periods) in accordance with the respective unpaid principal amount of the Loans held by each of the Lenders.
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Section 4.6. Affected Lenders.
If (a) a Lender requests compensation pursuant to Section 3.10 or Section 4.1, and the Requisite Lenders are not also doing the same, (b) the obligation of a Lender to make LIBOR Loans or to Continue, or to Convert Base Rate Loans into LIBOR Loans shall be suspended pursuant to Section 4.1(c) or Section 4.3 but the obligation of the Requisite Lenders shall not have been suspended under such Sections, or (c) a Lender is a Non-Consenting Lender, then, so long as there does not then exist any Default or Event of Default, the Borrower may demand that such Lender (the Affected Lender), and upon such demand the Affected Lender shall promptly, assign its Commitments and all of its outstanding Loans to an Eligible Assignee subject to and in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.6(b) for a purchase price equal to the aggregate principal balance of Loans then owing to the Affected Lender plus any accrued but unpaid interest thereon and accrued but unpaid fees and other amounts owing to the Affected Lender under the Loan Documents. Each of the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and the Affected Lender shall reasonably cooperate in effectuating the replacement of such Affected Lender under this Section, but at no time shall the Administrative Agent, such Affected Lender nor any other Lender be obligated in any way whatsoever to initiate any such replacement or to assist in finding an Eligible Assignee. The exercise by the Borrower of its rights under this Section shall be at the Borrowers sole cost and expense and at no cost or expense to the Administrative Agent, the Affected Lender or any of the other Lenders. The terms of this Section shall not in any way limit the Borrowers obligation to pay to any Affected Lender compensation owing to such Affected Lender pursuant to Section 3.10 or Section 4.1. No assignment resulting from a Lender being a Non-Consenting Lender shall be permitted unless the applicable assignee Lender shall have consented to the applicable amendment, waiver or consent.
Section 4.7. Assumptions Concerning Funding of LIBOR Loans.
Calculation of all amounts payable to a Lender under this Article IV shall be made as though such Lender had actually funded LIBOR Loans through the purchase of deposits in the relevant market bearing interest at the rate applicable to such LIBOR Loans in an amount equal to the amount of the LIBOR Loans and having a maturity comparable to the relevant Interest Period; provided, however, that each Lender may fund each of its LIBOR Loans in any manner it sees fit and the foregoing assumption shall be used only for calculation of amounts payable under this Article IV.
Section 4.8. Change of Lending Office.
Each Lender agrees that it will use reasonable efforts to designate an alternate Lending Office with respect to any of its Loans affected by the matters or circumstances described in Section 3.10, Section 4.1 or Section 4.3 to reduce the liability of the Borrower or avoid the results provided thereunder, so long as such designation is not disadvantageous to such Lender as determined by such Lender in its sole discretion, except that such Lender shall have no obligation to designate a Lending Office located in the United States of America.
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ARTICLE V. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
Section 5.1. Initial Conditions Precedent.
The effectiveness of this Agreement and the obligation of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to effect or permit the occurrence of the first Credit Event hereunder are subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the following conditions precedent:
(a) The Administrative Agent shall have received each of the following, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent:
(i) counterparts of this Agreement executed by each of the parties hereto;
(ii) Term Notes executed by the Borrower, payable to each applicable Lender (excluding any Lender that has requested that it not receive a Note) and complying with the terms of Section 2.13;
(iii) the Guaranty executed by each of the Guarantors initially to be a party thereto;
(iv) counterparts of the Security Documents executed (and acknowledged, if applicable) by each of the parties thereto;
(v) [Reserved];
(vi) an opinion of counsel to the Borrower and the other Loan Parties addressed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and covering such matters as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request;
(vii) a certificate of incumbency signed by the Secretary or Assistant Secretary (or other individual performing similar functions) of each Loan Party with respect to each of the officers of such Loan Party authorized to execute and deliver the Loan Documents to which such Loan Party is a party, and in the case of the Borrower, the officers of the Borrower then authorized to execute and deliver (or make by telephone in the case of Notices of Conversion or Continuation) on behalf of the Borrower Notices of Borrowing, Notices of Conversion and Notices of Continuation;
(viii) the certificate or articles of incorporation, articles of organization, certificate of limited partnership, declaration of trust or other comparable organizational instrument (if any) of the Borrower and each other Loan Party, certified as of a recent date by the Secretary of State of the State of formation of the Borrower and each such Loan Party; provided that, to the extent any of the foregoing organizational documents for any Guarantor have not been amended or modified from those previously delivered to the Administrative Agent, an officers certificate from the applicable Guarantor certifying the absence of changes to such previously delivered organizational documents may be delivered in place of such certified copy;
(ix) a Certificate of Good Standing or certificate of similar meaning with respect to the Borrower, each other Loan Party and each Subsidiary party to a Mortgage or the Pledge Agreement (and in the case of a Loan Party or Subsidiary that is a limited partnership, the general partner of such Loan Party) issued as of a recent date by the Secretary of State of the state of formation of each such Person and certificates of qualification to transact business or other comparable certificates issued by each Secretary of State (and any state department of taxation, as applicable) of each state in which any such Mortgaged Property is located, if different from the state of formation of such Person;
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(x) copies certified by the Secretary or Assistant Secretary (or other individual performing similar functions) of the Borrower and each other Loan Party of the by-laws of such Person, if a corporation, the operating agreement, if a limited liability company, the partnership agreement, if a limited or general partnership, or other comparable document in the case of any other form of legal entity; provided that, to the extent any of the foregoing organizational documents for any Guarantor have not been amended or modified from those previously delivered to the Administrative Agent, an officers certificate from the applicable Guarantor certifying the absence of changes to such previously delivered organizational documents may be delivered in place of such certified copy;
(xi) copies certified by the Secretary or Assistant Secretary (or other individual performing similar functions) of the Borrower, each other Loan Party of all corporate, partnership, member or other necessary action taken by each such Loan Party to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents to which it is a party;
(xii) the Disbursement Instruction Agreement executed by the Borrower effective as of the Agreement Date;
(xiii) the Initial Loan Budget;
(xiv) evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that the Fees then due and payable under Section 3.5, together with all other fees, expenses and reimbursement (including, without limitation, all fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent, and the fees and expenses of any local counsel, appraisers, consultants and other advisors) amounts then due and payable to the Administrative Agent and any of the Lenders for which payment has been demanded, have been paid;
(xv) such other documents and instruments as the Administrative Agent, or any Lender through the Administrative Agent, may reasonably request;
(b) No litigation, action, suit, investigation or other arbitral, administrative or judicial proceeding shall be pending or threatened which could reasonably be expected to (i) have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) restrain or enjoin, impose materially burdensome conditions on, or otherwise materially and adversely affect the ability of any Loan Party to fulfill its obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party;
(c) The Borrower and the other Loan Parties shall have received all approvals, consents and waivers, and shall have made or given all necessary filings and notices as shall be required to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby without the occurrence of any default under or violation of (i) any Applicable Law or (ii) any agreement, document or instrument to which any Loan Party is a party or by which any of them or their respective properties is bound, except for such approvals, consents, waivers, filings and notices the receipt, making or giving of which, or the failure to make, give or receive which, would not reasonably be likely to (A) have a Material Adverse Effect, or (B) restrain or enjoin, impose materially burdensome conditions on, or otherwise materially and adversely affect the ability of the Borrower or any other Loan Party to fulfill its obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party; and
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(d) The Borrower and each other Loan Party shall have provided (i) all information requested by the Administrative Agent and each Lender in order to comply with applicable know your customer and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including without limitation, the Patriot Act and (ii) any Borrower that qualifies as a legal entity customer under the Beneficial Ownership Regulation shall deliver a Beneficial Ownership Certification in relation to such Borrower to the Administrative Agent and each Lender.
(e) [Reserved].
(f) With respect to any personal property owned, the Administrative Agent shall have received each of the following, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent:
(i) (A) if certificated, original stock certificates or other certificates evidencing the certificated Equity Interests pledged pursuant to the Security Documents, together with an undated stock power for each such certificate duly executed in blank by the registered owner thereof and (B) each original promissory note pledged pursuant to the Security Documents together with an undated allonge for each such promissory note duly executed in blank by the holder thereof;
(ii) the results of a Lien search made against the Loan Parties under the Uniform Commercial Code (or applicable judicial docket) as in effect in each jurisdiction in which filings or recordations under the Uniform Commercial Code should be made to evidence or perfect security interests in all assets of such Loan Party, indicating among other things that the assets of each such Loan Party are free and clear of any Lien (except for Permitted Liens);
(iii) evidence of property, business interruption and liability insurance covering each Loan Party (with appropriate endorsements naming the Administrative Agent as lenders loss payee (and mortgagee, as applicable) on all policies for property hazard insurance and as additional insured on all policies for liability insurance), and if requested by the Administrative Agent, copies of such insurance policies;
(iv) duly executed counterparts of Deposit Account Control Agreements with respect to each deposit account required to be subject to a control agreement pursuant to the Collateral Agreement; and
(v) UCC-1 Financing Statements filed (or to be filed concurrently with the closing of the initial Loan hereunder) naming each Subsidiary party to a Security Document as debtor and appropriate for filing in the applicable jurisdiction of formation of such Subsidiary, as required or authorized by the applicable Security Document.
(g) With respect to each Mortgaged Property, the Administrative Agent shall have received, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent:
(i) A Mortgage with respect to each such Mortgaged Property duly executed and delivered by the record owner of such real property (together with UCC fixture filings if requested by the Administrative Agent), which Mortgage shall have been submitted for recordation in the real property records of the county in which such Mortgaged Property lies;
(ii) a policy or policies of title insurance (or a commitment on behalf of the title insurance company to issue its title policy as of the Effective Date in the form of a pro forma policy approved by the Administrative Agent) in the amount equal to the allocated loan amount
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of such real property and fixtures issued by Stewart Title Guaranty Company (the Title Company) insuring the Lien of each such Mortgage as a first priority Lien on the real property described therein, free of any other Liens except for Permitted Liens, together with such customary endorsements as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request to the extent available in the applicable jurisdiction at commercially reasonable rates and available based upon the existing survey and zoning reports for such Mortgaged Property, together with evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent of payment of all expenses and premiums of the Title Company and all other sums required in connection with the issuance of each title policy and all recording and stamp taxes (including mortgage recording and intangible taxes) payable in connection with recording the Mortgages in the appropriate real estate records;
(iii) (A) a completed Life-of-Loan Federal Emergency Management Agency Standard Flood Hazard Determination with respect to each such real property location in the United States (together with a notice about special flood hazard area status and flood disaster assistance, which, if applicable, shall be duly executed by the applicable Loan Party relating to such real property) and (B) if any such real property is located in an area determined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to have special flood hazards, evidence of such flood insurance as may be required under Applicable Law, including Regulation H of the FRB and the other Flood Insurance Laws and as required under Section 7.6 of the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement;
(iv) customary legal opinions in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent with respect to the mortgagor of such Mortgage and the enforceability and perfection of the applicable Mortgage and such other matters as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably require;
(v) owners title affidavits in reasonable form if necessary to induce the Title Company to issue the title policies and endorsements contemplated above; and
(vi) an opinion of counsel with respect to the enforceability of each Mortgage addressed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and covering such matters as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request.
Section 5.2. Conditions Precedent to All Credit Events.
The obligations of the Lenders to make any Loans are all subject to the further condition precedent that:
(a) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing as of the date of the making of such Loan or would exist immediately after giving effect thereto;
(b) the representations and warranties made or deemed made by the Borrower and each other Loan Party in the Loan Documents to which any of them is a party, shall be true and correct on and as of the date of the making of such Loan with the same force and effect as if made on and as of such date except to the extent that such representations and warranties expressly relate solely to an earlier date (in which case such representations and warranties shall have been true and correct on and as of such earlier date) and except for changes in factual circumstances not prohibited under the Loan Documents;
(c) for any Term Loan requests after the Effective Date, the Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, certifying that the Loan Parties are in compliance with the covenants set forth in Sections 7.3(a)(ii), 7.3(b) and 8.2; and
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(d) the Administrative Agent shall have received a timely Notice of Borrowing.
Each Credit Event shall constitute a certification by the Borrower to the effect set forth in clauses (a), (b) and (c) of the preceding sentence (both as of the date of the giving of notice relating to such Credit Event and, unless the Borrower otherwise notifies the Administrative Agent prior to the date of such Credit Event, as of the date of the occurrence of such Credit Event). In addition, if such Credit Event is the making of a Loan, the Borrower shall be deemed to have represented to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders at the time such Loan is made that all conditions to the occurrence of such Credit Event contained in this Article V have been satisfied or waived as permitted hereunder.
ARTICLE VI. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
Section 6.1. Representations and Warranties.
In order to induce the Administrative Agent and each Lender to enter into this Agreement and the Lenders to make the Loans, each Borrower hereby represents to the Administrative Agent and each Lender that each of the representations and warranties set forth in Section 6.1 of the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement (the Existing Credit Agreement Representations and Warranties) are true and correct on and as of the date of this Agreement and as of the date of the making of the Initial Borrowing and, with respect to each subsequent Loan, true and correct to the extent required by Section 5.2(b), with the same force and effect as if made on and as of such date except to the extent that such representations and warranties expressly relate solely to an earlier date (in which case such representations and warranties shall have been true and correct on and as of such earlier date, including such Existing Credit Agreement Representations and Warranties that expressly relate to the Agreement Date or the Effective Date, which shall refer to such terms as defined in the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement), each of which Existing Credit Agreement Representations and Warranties are incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof; provided, that the representation in Section 6.1(l) of the Existing Credit Agreement, as incorporated herein, shall be deemed to be qualified by the information disclosed in writing to the Administrative Agent and in the Borrowers reports filed or furnished with the Securities Exchange Commission, in each case, on or before the Agreement Date.
Section 6.2. Survival of Representations and Warranties, Etc.
All statements contained in any certificate, financial statement or other instrument delivered by, or at the direction of, any Loan Party or any other Subsidiary to the Administrative Agent or any Lender (other than the content of any projections or other similar forward looking statements) pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents (including, but not limited to, any such statement made in or in connection with any amendment thereto or any statement contained in any certificate, financial statement or other instrument delivered by, or at the direction of, the Parent or PREIT prior to the Agreement Date and delivered to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with closing the transactions contemplated hereby) shall constitute representations and warranties made by the Parent and PREIT under this Agreement. All representations and warranties made under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be deemed to be made at and as of the Agreement Date, the Effective Date and at and as of the date of the occurrence of any Credit Event, except to the extent that such representations and warranties expressly relate solely to an earlier date (in which case such representations and warranties shall have been true and correct on and as of such earlier date) and except for changes in factual circumstances not prohibited under the Loan Documents. All such representations and warranties shall survive the effectiveness of this Agreement, the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents and the making of the Loans.
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ARTICLE VII. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
For so long as this Agreement is in effect, unless the Requisite Lenders (or, if required pursuant to Section 11.7(b), all of the Lenders directly affected thereby) shall otherwise consent in the manner provided for in Section 11.7, the Parent and each other Borrower, as applicable, shall at all times comply with the following affirmative covenants:
Section 7.1. Existing Revolving Credit Agreement Affirmative Covenants.
Parent and each other Borrower, as applicable, shall and shall cause each of their respective Subsidiaries to comply with all the affirmative covenants set forth in Article VII of the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement, each of which affirmative covenants are incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof.
Section 7.2. Collateral.
(a) Additional Collateral. Comply with the requirements set forth in the Security Documents with respect to any property constituting Collateral thereunder.
(b) Real Property Collateral. After the acquisition of any owned real property by any Loan Party that is not subject to a Mortgage (i) promptly, (and, in any event, within ten (10) days after such acquisition or event, as such time period may be extended by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), notify the Administrative Agent and (ii) promptly (and in any event, within sixty (60) days of such acquisition or event (as such time period may be extended by the Administrative Agent, or such requirement is waived by the Administrative Agent, in each case in its sole discretion), deliver the items required, and otherwise satisfy each of the conditions precedent, with respect to Mortgaged Properties on the Effective Date under Section 5.1(g).
(c) Exclusions. The provisions of this Section 7.2 shall be subject to the limitations and exclusions set forth in the Security Documents.
Section 7.3. Specified Term Loan Affirmative Covenants.
(a) Loan Budget.
(i) The Loan Parties shall use proceeds of the Term Loans for purposes consistent with the categories identified in the Loan Budget. The Loan Budget shall set forth, on a weekly basis (from the Saturday up to and including the Friday of the relevant week) Budgeted Cash Receipts, Budgeted Disbursement Amounts, Budgeted Restructuring Related Amounts and Budgeted Debt Service Disbursement Amounts for the period beginning on the Effective Date for 13 weeks following the week in which the Effective Date occurs. The Loan Budget shall be approved in writing by, and be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to, the Administrative Agent (it being acknowledged and agreed that the Initial Loan Budget is approved by and satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and is and shall be the approved Loan Budget unless and until replaced in accordance with terms of this Section). The Initial Loan Budget shall commence on the Effective Date and thereafter, the Loan Budget shall be updated by the Borrower in writing transmitted to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders on the fourth Business Day of each successive four-week period following the Effective Date. Each such updated Loan Budget shall be in form and substance at least as detailed as the Initial Loan Budget, and no such updated budget shall be effective if the Administrative Agent (or the legal counsel or financial advisors to the Administrative Agent at the direction of the Administrative
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Agent) objects, using its reasonable discretion in writing within two Business Days of receipt (any such Loan Budget that is not so reasonably objected to, an Acceptable Budget); provided, however, that in the event the Administrative Agent, on the one hand, and the Borrower, on the other hand, cannot agree as to an updated budget, then the current approved Loan Budget shall remain in effect unless and until a new Acceptable Budget is in effect. Each Loan Budget delivered to the Administrative Agent shall be accompanied by such supporting documentation as reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent. Each Loan Budget shall be prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed by the Borrower to be reasonable.
(ii) Starting with the Variance Testing Period ended on the fourth full week following the Effective Date and on each Variance Report Date for each Variance Testing Period thereafter, the Borrower shall cause (a) the sum of (i) the Actual Disbursement Amounts, plus (ii) the Actual Company-Side Professional Disbursement Amounts plus (iii) the Actual Debt Service Disbursement Amounts for such Variance Testing Period not to exceed (b) the sum of (i) the Budgeted Disbursement Amounts plus (ii) the Budgeted Company-Side Professional Disbursement Amounts, plus (iii) the Budgeted Debt Service Disbursement Amounts for such Variance Testing Period by more than the Permitted Variance for such Variance Testing Period.
(iii) The Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders on or before 12:00 p.m. (New York City time) on Thursday of each week (commencing on the first full week immediately following the Effective Date) (each, a Variance Report Date) a Loan Budget Variance Report and with respect to each variance testing under Section 7.3(a)(ii) above, starting the with Loan Budget Variance Report related to the fourth full week following the Effective Date and on each Variance Report Date for each Variance Testing Period thereafter, a certificate which shall include such detail as is reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, certifying that (x) the Loan Parties are in compliance with the covenants contained in Section 7.3(a)(ii) above and (y) no Default or Event of Default has occurred or, if such a Default or Event of Default has occurred, specifying the nature and extent thereof and any corrective action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto.
(iv) If, on any Variance Testing Period, there is a deviation in the calculation contained in Section 7.3(a)(ii) that exceeds the Permitted Variance in the Loan Budget, (x) the Borrower shall include an explanation for such deviation in the certificate delivered under Section 7.3(a)(iii) above and (y) any requests for Term Loans under Section 2.2 shall be suspended until the Loan Parties deliver a Loan Budget Variance Report evidencing compliance with the applicable covenants in Section 7.3(a)(ii) for a subsequent Variance Testing Period.
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders (i) may assume that the Loan Parties will comply with the Loan Budget, (ii) shall have no duty to monitor such compliance and (iii) shall not be obligated to pay (directly or indirectly from the Collateral) any unpaid expenses incurred or authorized to be incurred pursuant to any Loan Budget. The line items in the Loan Budget for payment of interest, expenses and other amounts to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders are estimates only, and the Loan Parties remain obligated to pay any and all Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents regardless of whether such amounts exceed such estimates. Nothing in any Loan Budget shall constitute an amendment or other modification of any Loan Document or other lending limits set forth therein.
(b) Milestones. The Loan Parties shall, or shall cause the following to occur, by the times and dates set forth below (as any such time and date may be extended with the consent of the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Requisite Lenders, which consent may be delivered via electronic mail):
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(i) Prior to August 31, 2020, the Borrower, the Lenders, and the lenders under each of the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement and the Existing Term Loan Agreement shall agree to a non-binding term sheet, in form and substance acceptable to the Borrower, the Lenders, and the lenders under each of the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement and the Existing Term Loan Agreement, for amendments or other agreements (such amendments and other agreements, the Approved Amendments) to the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement and the Existing Term Loan Agreement.
(c) Rental and Leased Properties. No later than 45 days following the last day of the Parents fiscal quarter, the Borrower shall furnish to the Administrative Agent operating statements, rent rolls, collections and leasing information (including copies of accounts receivable and accounts payable aging reports and rent deferral information (including negotiated, proposed and collected rentals)) for each of the Mortgaged Properties.
(d) Real Property Covenants. If requested by Administrative Agent, Borrower shall obtain and deliver at its sole cost and expense, with respect to each Mortgaged Property, the following:
(i) an environmental site assessment with respect to the presence, if any, of Hazardous Materials on the Mortgaged Property;
(ii) an Appraisal of the Mortgaged Property;
(iii) any seismic reports on the Mortgaged Property;
(iv) evidence indicating compliance with applicable zoning requirements;
(v) a property condition report; and
(vi) copies of each material property agreement, together with such consents and estoppel certificates with respect to such material property agreements as Administrative Agent may reasonably require.
ARTICLE VIII. NEGATIVE COVENANTS
For so long as this Agreement is in effect, unless the Requisite Lenders (or, if required pursuant to Section 11.7(b), all of the Lenders directly affected thereby) shall otherwise consent in the manner set forth in Section 11.7, the Parent and each other Borrower, as applicable, shall at all times comply with the following negative covenants:
Section 8.1. Existing Revolving Credit Agreement Negative Covenants.
Parent and each other Borrower, as applicable, shall and shall cause each of their respective Subsidiaries to comply with the negative covenants set forth in Article VIII of the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement as of the date hereof after giving effect to the Second Amendment to Existing Revolving Credit Agreement, each of which negative covenants are incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof.
Section 8.2. Minimum Liquidity.
The Borrower shall at all times not allow liquidity (the Minimum Liquidity) to be less than Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($8,500,000), such Minimum Liquidity to be comprised
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solely of the sum of (i) unrestricted cash of the Borrower held in deposit accounts that are subject to Deposit Account Control Agreements, plus (ii) up to $5,000,000 held in the Excluded Deposit Account (as defined in the Collateral Agreement), plus (iii) unused Term Loan Commitments under this Agreement (to the extent available to be drawn at the date of determination in accordance with this Agreement).
Section 8.3. Specified Term Loan Negative Covenants.
In addition to the covenants set forth in Section 8.1 and Section 8.2 above:
(a) Indebtedness. From and after the Effective Date, no member of the Restricted Group shall, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume or otherwise become or remain liable with respect to any Indebtedness, except (i) any Indebtedness under the Loan Documents, (ii) Indebtedness outstanding under each of the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement and the Existing Term Loan Agreement, in each, case not in excess of the principal amount outstanding thereunder on the Effective Date, (ii) Indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with workers compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security legislation or in respect of surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other similar obligations, (iii) obligations owing from a Borrower or a Guarantor to a Borrower or a Guarantor; (iv) obligations owing from a Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor to a Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor; (v) Indebtedness arising in connection with the endorsement of instruments for deposit in the ordinary course of business; (vi) Non-recourse Indebtedness incurred in order to finance the payment of insurance premiums in the ordinary course of business; and (vii) other Indebtedness outstanding on the Effective Date and any amendments, modifications, refinancings or forbearances of the same, in each case that do not increase the principal amount outstanding thereunder as of the Effective Date.
(b) Liens. From and after the Effective Date, no member of the Restricted Group shall create, incur, assume or permit or suffer to exist any Lien on or with respect to any property of any kind owned by it, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, or any income or profits therefrom, except for any Permitted Liens.
(c) Restricted Payments; Certain Payments of Indebtedness. No member of the Restricted Group shall (i) pay or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, other than any Restricted Payment by a member of the Restricted Group to a Loan Party (or to another member of the Restricted Group and then to a Loan Party), or (ii) make any prepayment (whether in cash, securities or other property) on or in respect of principal of or interest on any Indebtedness, including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such Indebtedness prior to the scheduled maturity.
(d) Investments. No member of the Restricted Group shall make or own any Investment in any other Person, except (i) any Investments existing as of the Effective Date and (ii) additional Investments in members of the Restricted Group and joint ventures of members of the Restricted Group as of the Effective Date.
(e) Organizational Documents. No member of the Restricted Group shall amend or modify their respective organizational documents in a manner adverse to the Lenders without obtaining the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent.
(f) Parking Cash. No more than $6,500,000, in the aggregate, may be held in property-level accounts of Subsidiaries of the Borrower that are owners of real property for more than two (2) Business Days, except for (i) cash in property level accounts where distribution is prohibited by (i) an executed forbearance agreement that has been provided to the Administrative Agent, (ii) loan documents in effect
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as of the Effective Date which loan documents expressly prohibit the distribution of cash outside of such property-level accounts as of the date of determination, or (iii) joint venture agreements in effect as of the Effective Date, which joint venture agreements require the consent of an unaffiliated joint venture entity party thereto to permit the distribution of cash outside of such property level accounts, and such unaffiliated joint venture party has not so consented as of the date of determination (provided that Borrower or its Subsidiary has requested such consent).
ARTICLE IX. DEFAULT
Section 9.1. Events of Default.
Each of the following shall constitute an Event of Default, whatever the reason for such event and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of Applicable Law or pursuant to any judgment or order of any Governmental Authority:
(a) Default in Payment.
(i) The Borrower shall fail to pay when due under this Agreement or any other Loan Document (whether upon demand, at maturity, by reason of acceleration or otherwise) the principal of, or any interest on, any of the Loans, or shall fail to pay any of the other payment Obligations owing by the Borrower under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; or
(ii) Any other Loan Party shall fail to pay when due any payment obligation owing by such Loan Party under any Loan Document to which it is a party and in the case of this clause (ii) only, any such failure shall continue for a period of one (1) calendar day thereafter.
(b) Default in Performance.
(i) The Borrower shall fail to perform or observe any term, covenant, condition or agreement on its part to be performed or observed and contained in Article VII or Article VIII; or
(ii) The Borrower or any other Loan Party shall fail to perform or observe any term, covenant, condition or agreement contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document to which it is a party and not otherwise mentioned in this Section and such failure shall continue for a period of three (3) days after the earlier of (x) the date upon which the Parent or PREIT obtains knowledge of such failure or (y) the date upon which the Parent or PREIT has received written notice of such failure from the Administrative Agent;
(c) Misrepresentations. Any written statement, representation or warranty made or deemed made by or on behalf of any Borrower or any other Loan Party under this Agreement or under any other Loan Document, or any amendment hereto or thereto, or in any other writing or statement (other than forward looking statements) at any time furnished by, or at the direction of, any Borrower or any other Loan Party to the Administrative Agent or any Lender, shall at any time prove to have been incorrect or misleading in any material respect when furnished or made.
(d) Indebtedness Cross-Default.
(i) Any Borrower, any other Loan Party, any other Subsidiary shall fail to pay when due and payable the principal of, or interest on, any Indebtedness (other than the Loans) having an aggregate outstanding principal amount of $5,000,000 or more (or $250,000,000 or more in the case of Nonrecourse Indebtedness) (Material Indebtedness), and in any such case such failure shall continue beyond any applicable notice and cure periods; or
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(ii) The maturity of any Material Indebtedness shall have been accelerated in accordance with the provisions of any indenture, contract or instrument evidencing, providing for the creation of or otherwise concerning such Indebtedness or any Material Indebtedness shall have been required to be prepaid or repurchased prior to the stated maturity thereof; or
(iii) Any other event shall have occurred and be continuing which would permit any holder or holders of any Material Indebtedness, any trustee or agent acting on behalf of such holder or holders or any other Person, to accelerate the maturity of any such Material Indebtedness or require any such Material Indebtedness to be prepaid, repurchased, redeemed or defeased prior to its stated maturity; or
(iv) An Event of Default under and as defined in the Existing Term Loan Agreement shall occur; or
(v) An Event of Default under and as defined in the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement shall occur; or
(vi) An Event of Default under and as defined in the PM Gallery Loan Agreement shall occur.
(e) Voluntary Bankruptcy Proceeding. Any member of the Restricted Group (except for PR Valley View Limited Partnership, PR Valley View LLC or PR VV LLC) shall: (i) commence a voluntary case under the Bankruptcy Code, as amended or other federal bankruptcy laws (as now or hereafter in effect); (ii) file a petition seeking to take advantage of any other Applicable Laws, domestic or foreign, relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, winding-up, or composition or adjustment of debts; (iii) consent to, or fail to contest in a timely and appropriate manner, any petition filed against it in an involuntary case under such bankruptcy laws or other Applicable Laws or consent to any proceeding or action described in the immediately following subsection; (iv) apply for or consent to, or fail to contest in a timely and appropriate manner, the appointment of, or the taking of possession by, a receiver, custodian, trustee, or liquidator of itself or of a substantial part of its property, domestic or foreign; (v) admit in writing its inability to pay its debts as they become due; (vi) make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors; (vii) make a conveyance voidable as to creditors under any Applicable Law; or (viii) take any corporate or partnership action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing.
(f) Involuntary Bankruptcy Proceeding. A case or other proceeding shall be commenced against any member of the Restricted Group (except for PR Valley View Limited Partnership, PR Valley View LLC or PR VV LLC) in any court of competent jurisdiction seeking: (i) relief under the Bankruptcy Code, as amended or other federal bankruptcy laws (as now or hereafter in effect) or under any other Applicable Laws, domestic or foreign, relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, winding-up, or composition or adjustment of debts; or (ii) the appointment of a trustee, receiver, custodian, liquidator or the like of such Person, or of all or any substantial part of the assets, domestic or foreign, of such Person or an order granting the relief requested in such case or proceeding (including, but not limited to, an order for relief under such Bankruptcy Code or such other federal bankruptcy laws) shall be entered.
(g) Revocation of Loan Documents. Any Borrower or any other Loan Party shall disavow, revoke or terminate any Loan Document to which it is a party or shall otherwise challenge or contest in any action, suit or proceeding in any court or before any Governmental Authority the validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or any material provision of any Loan Document shall cease to be in full force and effect (except as a result of the express terms thereof).
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(h) Judgment. A judgment or order for the payment of money shall be entered against any member of the Restricted Group and (i) such judgment or order shall continue for a period of thirty (30) days without being paid, bonded over, stayed or dismissed through appropriate appellate proceedings (provided however, that if a bond has been issued in favor of the claimant or other Person obtaining such judgment or order, the issuer of such bond shall have executed an agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent pursuant to which the issuer of such bond waives any Lien it may have on the assets of any such Person), and (ii) either (A) the amount for which the insurer has denied liability exceeds, individually or together with all other such judgments or orders entered, $5,000,000 in amount (or $250,000,000 or more if the judgment or order for the payment of money directly related to Nonrecourse Indebtedness and is itself nonrecourse) or (B) could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(i) Attachment. A warrant, writ of attachment, execution or similar process shall be issued against any property of any member of the Restricted Group in an amount greater than $5,000,000 (or $250,000,000 or more if the warrant, writ of attachment, execution or similar process directly related to Nonrecourse Indebtedness and is itself nonrecourse) and such warrant, writ, execution or process shall not be paid, discharged, vacated, stayed or bonded for a period of thirty (30) days; provided however, that if a bond has been issued in favor of the claimant or other Person obtaining such warrant, writ of attachment, execution or process, the issuer of such bond shall have executed an agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent pursuant to which the issuer of such bond subordinates its right of reimbursement or subrogation to the Obligations and waives any Lien it may have on the assets of any member of the Restricted Group.
(j) ERISA.
(i) Any ERISA Event shall have occurred that results or could reasonably be expected to result in liability to any member of the ERISA Group aggregating in excess of $5,000,000; or
(ii) The benefit obligation of all Benefit Plans exceeds the fair market value of plan assets for such Benefit Plans by more than $5,000,000, all as determined, and with such terms defined, in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 158.
(k) Loan Documents. An Event of Default (as defined therein) shall occur under any of the other Loan Documents;
(l) Change of Control.
(i) Any person or group (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act)) is or becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that a Person will be deemed to have beneficial ownership of all securities that such Person has the right to acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time), directly or indirectly, of more than 35.0% of the total voting power of the then outstanding voting shares of the Parent other than such Persons who are, as of the Agreement Date, current officers or trustees of the Parent, or Affiliates of current officers or trustees of the Parent; or
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(ii) During any period of 12 consecutive months ending after the Agreement Date, individuals who at the beginning of any such 12-month period constituted the Board of Trustees of the Parent (together with any new trustees whose election by such Board or whose nomination for election by the shareholders of the Parent was approved by a vote of a majority of the trustees then still in office who were either trustees at the beginning of such period or whose election or nomination for election was previously so approved) cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the Board of Trustees of the Parent then in office; or
(iii) The Parent shall cease (A) to be the sole general partner of PREIT or (B) to own and control, directly or indirectly, at least 80.0% (or such lesser percentage not less than 70.0% as may be acceptable to the Administrative Agent) of all partnership interests of PREIT.
(m) Strike; Casualty. Any strike, lockout, labor dispute, embargo, condemnation, act of God or public enemy, or other casualty which causes, for more than 30 consecutive days beyond the coverage period of any applicable business interruption insurance, the cessation or substantial curtailment of revenue producing activities of any Borrower, any other Loan Party and any other Subsidiary taken as a whole and only if any such event or circumstance could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(n) Term Loan Specified Event of Default. A Term Loan Specified Event of Default shall occur.
Section 9.2. Remedies Upon Event of Default.
Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default the following provisions shall apply:
(a) Acceleration; Termination of Facilities.
(i) Automatic. Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default specified in Section 9.1(e) or Section 9.1(f), (A) the principal of, and all accrued interest on, the Loans and the Notes at the time outstanding and (3) all of the other Obligations of the Borrower, including, but not limited to, the other amounts owed to the Lenders and the Administrative Agent under this Agreement, the Notes or any of the other Loan Documents, shall become immediately and automatically due and payable without presentment, demand, protest, or other notice of any kind, all of which are expressly waived by the Borrower, and, (B) the Commitments, the obligation of the Lenders to make Loans hereunder shall all immediately and automatically terminate.
(ii) Optional. If any other Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Administrative Agent may, and at the direction of the Requisite Lenders shall: (A) (1) declare the principal of, and accrued interest on, the Loans and the Notes at the time outstanding, and (2) all of the other Obligations, including, but not limited to, the other amounts owed to the Lenders and the Administrative Agent under this Agreement, the Notes or any of the other Loan Documents to be forthwith due and payable, whereupon the same shall immediately become due and payable without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are expressly waived by the Borrower and (B) terminate the Commitments and the obligation of the Lenders to make Loans hereunder.
(b) Loan Documents. The Requisite Lenders may direct the Administrative Agent to, and the Administrative Agent if so directed shall, exercise any and all of its rights and remedies under or in respect of any and all of the other Loan Documents.
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(c) Applicable Law. The Requisite Lenders may direct the Administrative Agent to, and the Administrative Agent if so directed shall, exercise all other rights and remedies it may have under any Applicable Law.
(d) Appointment of Receiver. To the extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be entitled to the appointment of a receiver for the assets and properties of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, without notice of any kind whatsoever and without regard to the adequacy of any security for the Obligations, or the solvency of any party bound for its payment, to take possession of all or any portion of the property and/or the business operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and to exercise such power as the court shall confer upon such receiver.
Section 9.3. Remedies Upon Default.
Upon the occurrence of a Default specified in Section 9.1(f), the Commitments shall immediately and automatically terminate.
Section 9.4. Marshaling; Payments Set Aside.
None of the Administrative Agent or any Lender shall be under any obligation to marshal any assets in favor of any Loan Party or any other party or against or in payment of any or all of the Obligations. To the extent that any Loan Party makes a payment or payments to the Administrative Agent or any Lender, or the Administrative Agent or any Lender enforces its security interest or exercise its right 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, state or federal law, common law or equitable cause, then to the extent of such recovery, the Obligations or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied, and all Liens, rights and remedies therefor, shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such enforcement or setoff had not occurred.
Section 9.5. Allocation of Proceeds.
If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, all payments received by the Administrative Agent under any of the Loan Documents, in respect of any principal of or interest on the Obligations or any other amounts payable by the Borrower or any other Loan Party hereunder or thereunder, shall be applied in the following order and priority:
(i) amounts due to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in respect of Fees and other fees and expenses due under Section 11.2;
(ii) amounts due to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in respect of Protective Advances; ratably among the Administrative Agent and Lenders in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause (ii) payable to them;
(iii) payments of interest on all other Loans to be paid to the Lenders equally and ratably in accordance with the respective amounts thereof then due and owing;
(iv) payments of principal of all other Loans to be paid to the Lenders equally and ratably in accordance with the respective amounts thereof then due and owing to such Persons;
(v) amounts due to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders pursuant to Section 10.7 and Section 11.10;
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(vi) payments of all other Obligations and other amounts due under any of the Loan Documents, if any, to be applied for the ratable benefit of the Lenders; and
(vii) any amount remaining after application as provided above, shall be paid to the Borrower or whomever else may be legally entitled thereto.
Section 9.6. [Reserved].
Section 9.7. Performance by Administrative Agent.
If the Borrower shall fail to perform any covenant, duty or agreement contained in any of the Loan Documents, the Administrative Agent may perform or attempt to perform such covenant, duty or agreement on behalf of the Borrower after the expiration of any cure or grace periods set forth herein. In such event, the Borrower shall, at the request of the Administrative Agent, promptly pay any amount reasonably expended by the Administrative Agent in such performance or attempted performance to the Administrative Agent, together with interest thereon at the applicable Post-Default Rate from the date of such expenditure until paid. Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall have any liability or responsibility whatsoever for the performance of any obligation of the Borrower under this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
Section 9.8. Rescission of Acceleration by Requisite Lenders.
If at any time after acceleration of the maturity of the Loans and the other Obligations, the Borrower shall pay all arrears of interest and all payments on account of principal of the Obligations, which shall have become due otherwise than by acceleration (with interest on principal and, to the extent permitted by Applicable Law, on overdue interest, at the rates specified in this Agreement) and all Events of Default and Defaults (other than nonpayment of principal of and accrued interest on the Obligations due and payable solely by virtue of acceleration) shall become remedied or waived to the satisfaction of the Requisite Lenders, then by written notice to the Borrower, the Requisite Lenders may elect, in the sole discretion of such Requisite Lenders, to rescind and annul the acceleration and its consequences. The provisions of the preceding sentence are intended merely to bind all of the Lenders to a decision which may be made at the election of the Requisite Lenders, and are not intended to benefit the Borrower and do not give the Borrower the right to require the Lenders to rescind or annul any acceleration hereunder, even if the conditions set forth herein are satisfied.
Section 9.9. Rights Cumulative.
(a) Generally. The rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders under this Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents shall be cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies which any of them may otherwise have under Applicable Law. In exercising their respective rights and remedies, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may be selective and no failure or delay by the Administrative Agent or any of the Lenders in exercising any right shall operate as a waiver of it, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any power or right preclude its other or further exercise or the exercise of any other power or right.
(b) Enforcement by Administrative Agent. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in any other Loan Document, the authority to enforce rights and remedies hereunder and under the other Loan Documents against the Loan Parties or any of them shall be vested exclusively in, and all actions and proceedings at law in connection with such enforcement shall be instituted and maintained exclusively by, the Administrative Agent in accordance with Article IX for the benefit of all the Lenders; provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit (i) the Administrative Agent from exercising
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on its own behalf the rights and remedies that inure to its benefit (solely in its capacity as Administrative Agent) hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, (ii) any Lender from exercising setoff rights in accordance with Section 11.4 (subject to the terms of Section 3.3), or (iii) any Lender from filing proofs of claim or appearing and filing pleadings on its own behalf during the pendency of a Bankruptcy Event relative to any Loan Party; and provided, further, that if at any time there is no Person acting as Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, then (x) the Requisite Lenders shall have the rights otherwise ascribed to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Article IX and (y) in addition to the matters set forth in clauses (ii), (iii) and (iv) of the preceding proviso and subject to Section 3.3, any Lender may, with the consent of the Requisite Lenders, enforce any rights and remedies available to it and as authorized by the Requisite Lenders.
ARTICLE X. THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Section 10.1. Appointment and Authorization.
Each Lender hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as contractual representative on such Lenders behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as are specifically delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Not in limitation of the foregoing, each Lender authorizes and directs the Administrative Agent in its capacity as Administrative Agent to enter into the Loan Documents for the benefit of the Lenders. Each Lender hereby agrees that, except as otherwise set forth herein, any action taken by the Requisite Lenders in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement or the Loan Documents, and the exercise by the Requisite Lenders of the powers set forth herein or therein, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, shall be authorized and binding upon all of the Lenders. Nothing herein shall be construed to deem the Administrative Agent a trustee or fiduciary for any Lender or to impose on the Administrative Agent duties or obligations other than those expressly provided for herein. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the use of the terms Agent, Administrative Agent, agent and similar terms in the Loan Documents with reference to the Administrative Agent is not intended to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express) obligations arising under agency doctrine of any Applicable Law. Instead, use of such terms is merely a matter of market custom, and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between independent contracting parties. The Administrative Agent shall deliver to each Lender, promptly upon receipt thereof by the Administrative Agent, copies of each of the financial statements, certificates, notices and other documents delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 7.1 that the Borrower is not otherwise required to deliver to the Lenders. The Administrative Agent will also furnish to any Lender, upon the request of such Lender, a copy (or, where appropriate, an original) of any document, instrument, agreement, certificate or notice furnished to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Affiliate of the Borrower, pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document not already delivered or otherwise made available to such Lender pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any such other Loan Document. As to any matters not expressly provided for by the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, enforcement or collection of any of the Obligations), the Administrative Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the instructions of the Requisite Lenders (or all of the Lenders if explicitly required under any other provision of this Agreement), and such instructions shall be binding upon all Lenders and all holders of any of the Obligations; provided, however, that, notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes the Administrative Agent to personal liability or which is contrary to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or Applicable Law. Not in limitation of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent may exercise any right or remedy it or the Lenders may have under any Loan Document upon the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default unless the Requisite Lenders
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have directed the Administrative Agent otherwise. Without limiting the foregoing, no Lender shall have any right of action whatsoever against the Administrative Agent as a result of the Administrative Agent acting or refraining from acting under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents in accordance with the instructions of the Requisite Lenders, or where applicable, all the Lenders.
Section 10.2. Administrative Agents Reliance, Etc.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement or any other Loan Documents, neither the Administrative Agent nor any of its directors, officers, agents, employees or counsel shall be liable for any action taken or not taken by it under or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document, except for its or their own gross negligence or willful misconduct in connection with its duties expressly set forth herein or therein. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent: may consult with legal counsel (including its own counsel or counsel for the Borrower or any other Loan Party), independent public accountants and other experts selected by it and shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken in good faith by it in accordance with the advice of such counsel, accountants or experts. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any of its directors, officers, agents, employees or counsel: (a) makes any warranty or representation to any Lender or any other Person and shall be responsible to any Lender or any other Person for any statement, warranty or representation made or deemed made by any Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Person in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document; (b) shall have any duty to ascertain or to inquire as to the performance or observance of any of the terms, covenants or conditions of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the satisfaction of any conditions precedent under this Agreement or any Loan Document on the part of the Borrower or other Persons or inspect the property, books or records of the Borrower or any other Person; (c) shall be responsible to any Lender for the due execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, any other instrument or document furnished pursuant thereto or any collateral covered thereby or the perfection or priority of any Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders in any such collateral; (d) shall have any liability in respect of any recitals, statements, certifications, representations or warranties contained in any of the Loan Documents or any other document, instrument, agreement, certificate or statement delivered in connection therewith; and (e) shall incur any liability under or in respect of this Agreement or any other Loan Document by acting upon any notice, consent, certificate or other instrument or writing (which may be by telephone, telecopy or electronic mail) believed by it to be genuine and signed, sent or given by the proper party or parties. The Administrative Agent may execute any of its duties under the Loan Documents by or through agents, employees or attorneys-in-fact and shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any agent or attorney-in-fact that it selects in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct.
Section 10.3. Notice of Defaults.
The Administrative Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of a Default or Event of Default unless the Administrative Agent has received notice from a Lender or the Borrower referring to this Agreement, describing with reasonable specificity such Default or Event of Default and stating that such notice is a notice of default. If any Lender (excluding the Lender which is also serving as the Administrative Agent) becomes aware of any Default or Event of Default, it shall promptly send to the Administrative Agent such a notice of default. Further, if the Administrative Agent receives such a notice of default, the Administrative Agent shall give prompt notice thereof to the Lenders.
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Section 10.4. Administrative Agent as Lender.
The Lender acting as Administrative Agent or as a Lender, as the case may be, shall have the same rights and powers under this Agreement and any other Loan Document, as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent and the term Lender or Lenders shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated, include the Lender acting as Administrative Agent, as applicable and in each case, in its individual capacity. The Lender acting as Administrative Agent and its Affiliates may each accept deposits from, maintain deposits or credit balances for, invest in, lend money to, act as trustee under indentures of, serve as financial advisor to, and generally engage in any kind of business with any Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Affiliate thereof as if it were any other bank and without any duty to account therefor to the other Lenders. Further, the Lender acting as Administrative Agent and its Affiliates may each accept fees and other consideration from the Borrower for services in connection with this Agreement or otherwise without having to account for the same to the other Lenders. The Lenders acknowledge that, pursuant to such activities, the Lender acting as Administrative Agent and its Affiliates may receive information regarding the Borrower, other Loan Parties, other Subsidiaries and other Affiliates (including information that may be subject to confidentiality obligations in favor of such Person) and acknowledge that the Lender acting as Administrative Agent and its Affiliates shall be under no obligation to provide such information to them.
Section 10.5. Approvals of Lenders.
All communications from the Administrative Agent to any Lender requesting such Lenders determination, consent, approval or disapproval (a) shall be given in the form of a written notice to such Lender, (b) shall be accompanied by a description of the matter or issue as to which such determination, approval, consent or disapproval is requested, or shall advise such Lender where information, if any, regarding such matter or issue may be inspected, or shall otherwise describe the matter or issue to be resolved, (c) shall include, if reasonably requested by such Lender and to the extent not previously provided to such Lender, written materials and a summary of all oral information provided to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower in respect of the matter or issue to be resolved, and (d) shall include the Administrative Agents recommended course of action or determination in respect thereof.
Section 10.6. Lender Credit Decision, Etc.
Each Lender expressly acknowledges and agrees that neither the Administrative Agent nor any of its officers, directors, employees, agents, counsel, attorneys-in-fact or other Affiliates has made any representations or warranties to such Lender and that no act by the Administrative Agent hereafter taken, including any review of the affairs of any Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Subsidiary or Affiliate, shall be deemed to constitute any such representation or warranty by the Administrative Agent to any Lender. Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, any other Lender or counsel to the Administrative Agent, or any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents or counsel, and based on the financial statements of the Parent, any other Borrower, the other Loan Parties, the other Subsidiaries and other Affiliates, and inquiries of such Persons, its independent due diligence of the business and affairs of the Parent, each other Borrower, the other Loan Parties, the other Subsidiaries and other Persons, its review of the Loan Documents, the legal opinions required to be delivered to it hereunder, the advice of its own counsel and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit and legal analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby. Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, any other Lender or counsel to the Administrative Agent or any of their respective officers, directors, employees and agents, and based on such review, advice, documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action under the Loan Documents. The Administrative
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Agent shall not be required to keep itself informed as to the performance or observance by the Parent, any other Borrower or any other Loan Party of the Loan Documents or any other document referred to or provided for therein or to inspect the properties or books of, or make any other investigation of, the Parent, any other Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Subsidiary. Except for notices, reports and other documents and information expressly required to be furnished to the Lenders by the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, the Administrative Agent shall have no duty or responsibility to provide any Lender with any credit or other information concerning the business, operations, property, financial and other condition or creditworthiness of the Parent, any other Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Affiliate thereof which may come into possession of the Administrative Agent or any of its officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys-in-fact or other Affiliates. Each Lender acknowledges that the Administrative Agents legal counsel in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement is only acting as counsel to the Administrative Agent and is not acting as counsel to such Lender.
Section 10.7. Indemnification of Administrative Agent.
Regardless of whether the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents are consummated, each Lender agrees to indemnify the Administrative Agent (to the extent not reimbursed by the Borrower, and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower to do so) pro rata in accordance with such Lenders Pro Rata Share (determined at the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) of any claim, from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may at any time be imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against the Administrative Agent (in its capacity as Administrative Agent but not as a Lender) in any way relating to or arising out of the Loan Documents, any transaction contemplated hereby or thereby or any action taken or omitted by the Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents (collectively, Indemnifiable Amounts); provided, however, that no Lender shall be liable for any portion of such Indemnifiable Amounts to the extent resulting from the Administrative Agents gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final, non-appealable judgment; provided, however, that no action taken in accordance with the directions of the Requisite Lenders (or all of the Lenders if expressly required hereunder) shall be deemed to constitute gross negligence or willful misconduct for purposes of this Section. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Lender agrees to reimburse the Administrative Agent (to the extent not reimbursed by the Borrower and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower to do so) promptly upon demand for its Pro Rata Share (determined as of the time that the applicable reimbursement is sought) of any out-of-pocket expenses (including the reasonable fees and expenses of the counsel to the Administrative Agent) incurred by the Administrative Agent in connection with the preparation, negotiation, execution, administration, or enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal proceedings, or otherwise) of, or legal advice with respect to the rights or responsibilities of the parties under, the Loan Documents, any suit or action brought by the Administrative Agent to enforce the terms of the Loan Documents and/or collect any Obligations, any lender liability suit or claim brought against the Administrative Agent and/or the Lenders, and any claim or suit brought against the Administrative Agent and/or the Lenders arising under any Environmental Laws. Such out-of-pocket expenses (including counsel fees) shall be advanced by the Lenders on the request of the Administrative Agent notwithstanding any claim or assertion that the Administrative Agent is not entitled to indemnification hereunder upon receipt of an undertaking by the Administrative Agent that the Administrative Agent will reimburse the Lenders if it is actually and finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction that the Administrative Agent is not so entitled to indemnification. The agreements in this Section shall survive the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder or under the other Loan Documents and the termination of this Agreement. If the Borrower shall reimburse the Administrative Agent for any Indemnifiable Amount following payment by any Lender to the Administrative Agent in respect of such Indemnifiable Amount pursuant to this Section, the Administrative Agent shall share such reimbursement on a ratable basis with each Lender making any such payment.
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Section 10.8. Successor Administrative Agent.
The Administrative Agent may resign at any time as Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents by giving written notice thereof to the Lenders and the Borrower. Upon thirty (30) days prior written notice to the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent may be removed as Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents by the Requisite Lenders (other than the Lender then acting as Administrative Agent) for any acts or omissions of the Administrative Agent in connection with its duties set forth in this Agreement or the other Loan Documents that constitute gross negligence or willful misconduct. Upon any such resignation or removal, the Requisite Lenders (other than the Lender then acting as the Administrative Agent in the case of the removal of the Administrative Agent under the immediately preceding sentence) shall have the right to appoint a successor Administrative Agent which appointment shall, provided no Default or Event of Default exists, be subject to the Borrowers approval, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. If no successor Administrative Agent shall have been so appointed in accordance with the immediately preceding sentence, and shall have accepted such appointment, within thirty (30) days after the current Administrative Agents giving of notice of resignation or its removal, then the current Administrative Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Administrative Agent, which shall be a Lender, if any Lender shall be willing to serve, and otherwise shall be an Eligible Assignee; provided that if the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders that no Lender has accepted such appointment, then such resignation shall nonetheless become effective in accordance with such notice and (1) the Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and (2) all payments, communications and determinations provided to be made by, to or through the Administrative Agent shall instead be made to or by each Lender directly, until such time as a successor Administrative Agent has been appointed as provided for above in this Section; provided, further that such Lenders so acting directly shall be and be deemed to be protected by all indemnities and other provisions herein for the benefit and protection of the Administrative Agent as if each such Lender were itself the Administrative Agent. Upon the acceptance of any appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor Administrative Agent, such successor Administrative Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the current Administrative Agent, and the current Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations under the Loan Documents. After any Administrative Agents resignation or removal hereunder as Administrative Agent, the provisions of this Article X shall continue to inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Administrative Agent may assign its rights and duties under the Loan Documents to any of its Affiliates by giving the Borrower and each Lender prior written notice. The resignation or removal of the Administrative Agent, or the assignment by the Administrative Agent of its rights and duties under the Loan Documents, as provided in this Section shall have no effect on the obligations as a Lender of the Lender then acting as the Administrative Agent.
Section 10.9. Collateral Matters; Protective Advances.
(a) Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent, without the necessity of any notice to or further consent from any Lender, from time to time prior to an Event of Default, to take any action with respect to any Collateral or Loan Documents which may be necessary to perfect and maintain perfected the Liens upon the Collateral granted pursuant to any of the Loan Documents.
(b) The Lenders hereby authorize the Administrative Agent to, and the Administrative Agent shall with each such Lien, release any Lien granted to or held by the Administrative Agent upon any
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Collateral (i) upon termination of the Commitments and indefeasible payment and satisfaction in full of all of the Obligations; (ii) as expressly permitted by, but only in accordance with, the terms of the applicable Loan Document; and (iii) if approved, authorized or ratified in writing by the Requisite Lenders (or such greater number of Lenders as this Agreement or any other Loan Document may expressly provide). Upon request by the Administrative Agent at any time, the Lenders will confirm in writing the Administrative Agents authority to release particular types or items of Collateral pursuant to this Section.
(c) Upon any sale and transfer of Collateral which is expressly permitted pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, and upon at least five (5) Business Days prior written request by the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent shall (and is hereby irrevocably authorized by the Lenders to) execute such documents as may be necessary to release of the Liens granted to the Administrative Agent for its benefit and the benefit of the Lenders herein or pursuant hereto upon the Collateral effective upon the sale or transfer of the Collateral; provided, however, that (i) the Administrative Agent shall not be required to execute any such document on terms which, in the Administrative Agents opinion, would expose the Administrative Agent to liability or create any obligation or entail any consequence other than the release of such Liens without recourse or warranty and (ii) such release shall not in any manner discharge, affect or impair the Obligations or any Liens upon (or obligations of the Borrowers or any other Loan Party in respect of) all interests retained by the Borrowers or any other Loan Party, including (without limitation) the proceeds of such sale or transfer, all of which shall continue to constitute part of the Collateral. In the event of any sale or transfer of Collateral, or any foreclosure with respect to any of the Collateral, the Administrative Agent shall be authorized to deduct all of the expenses reasonably incurred by the Administrative Agent from the proceeds of any such sale, transfer or foreclosure.
(d) The Administrative Agent shall have no obligation whatsoever to the Lenders or to any other Person to assure that the Collateral exists or is owned by a Borrower, any other Loan Party, any Subsidiary of Borrower or any joint venture of any such Persons or is cared for, protected or insured or that the Liens granted to the Administrative Agent herein or pursuant hereto have been properly or sufficiently or lawfully created, perfected, protected or enforced or are entitled to any particular priority, or to exercise or to continue exercising at all or in any manner or under any duty of care, disclosure or fidelity any of the rights, authorities and powers granted or available to the Administrative Agent in this Section or in any of the Loan Documents, it being understood and agreed that in respect of the Collateral, or any act, omission or event related thereto, the Administrative Agent may act in any manner it may deem appropriate, in its sole discretion, and that the Administrative Agent shall have no duty or liability whatsoever to the Lenders, except to the extent resulting from its gross negligence or willful misconduct.
(e) The Administrative Agent may make, and shall be reimbursed by the Lenders (in accordance with their Pro Rata Shares) to the extent not reimbursed by the Borrowers for, Protective Advances during any one calendar year with respect to each Mortgaged Property up to the sum of (i) amounts expended to pay real estate taxes, assessments and governmental charges or levies imposed upon such Borrowing Base Property; (ii) amounts expended to pay insurance premiums for policies of insurance related to such Borrowing Base Property; and (iii) $1,000,000. Protective Advances in excess of said sum during any calendar year for any Borrowing Base Property shall require the consent of the Requisite Lenders. The Borrowers agree to pay on demand all Protective Advances.
ARTICLE XI. Miscellaneous
Section 11.1. Notices.
Unless otherwise provided herein, communications provided for hereunder shall be in writing and shall be mailed, telecopied or delivered as follows:
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If to the Borrower:
PREIT Associates, L.P.
2005 Market Street, Suite 1000
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Attention: Andrew Ioannou
Telephone:   ###-###-####
Telecopy:   ###-###-####
With a copy of notices of Defaults, Events of Default or notices pursuant to Article IX to:
PREIT Associates, L.P.
2005 Martket Street, Suite 1000
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Attention: Lisa Most
Telephone:   ###-###-####
Telecopy:   ###-###-####
and
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
One Logan Square, Suite 2000
Philadelphia, PA 19103-6996
Attention: Eirik Tellefsen
Telephone:   ###-###-####
Telecopy:   ###-###-####
If to the Administrative Agent: Administrative Agent:
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
10 South Wacker Drive, 32nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60606
Attention: Brandon Barry
Telecopy: (312) 782-0969
with copies to:
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
10 South Wacker Drive, 32nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60606
Attention: Karen Turnbull Skutt
Telephone: (312) 269-4809
Telecopy: (312) 782-0969
and:
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association
600 South 4th Street, 9th Floor
Minneapolis, MN 55415
MAC N9300-091
Attention: Anthony J. Gangelhoff
Telephone: (612) 316-0109
Telecopy: (877) 410-5023
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If to a Lender:
To the address or telecopy number, as applicable, of the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, set forth on the
Administrative Questionnaire.
or, as to each party at such other address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to the other parties delivered in compliance with this Section. All such notices and other communications shall be effective (i) if mailed, upon the first to occur of receipt or the expiration of three (3) days after the deposit in the United States Postal Service mail, postage prepaid; (ii) if telecopied, upon mechanical confirmation of transmission if received on a Business Day prior to 5:00 p.m. local time at the point of destination and, if otherwise, on the next succeeding Business Day; (iii) if hand delivered, when delivered or (iv) if delivered in accordance with Section 7.1(b) of the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement as incorporated herein by Section 7.1 of this Agreement to the extent applicable; provided, however that in the case of the immediately preceding clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) non-receipt of any communication as of the result of any change of address of which the sending party was not notified or as the result of a refusal to accept delivery shall be deemed receipt of such communication. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, all notices or communications to the Administrative Agent or any Lender under Article II shall be effective only when actually received. Any notice to the Borrower received by any individual designated by the Borrower to receive such notice shall be effective notwithstanding the fact that any other individual designated by the Borrower to receive a copy of such notice did not receive such copy. None of the Administrative Agent or any Lender shall incur any liability to the Borrower (nor shall the Administrative Agent incur any liability to the Lenders) for acting upon any telephonic notice referred to in this Agreement which the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, believes in good faith to have been given by a Person authorized to deliver such notice or for otherwise acting in good faith hereunder.
Section 11.2. Expenses.
The Borrower agrees (a) to pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent for all of its reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in connection with the preparation, negotiation and execution of, and any amendment, supplement or modification to, any of the Loan Documents, and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, including due diligence expense and reasonable travel expenses related to closing and the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent, (b) to pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent, and, after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Lenders, for all their costs and expenses incurred in connection with the enforcement or preservation of any rights under the Loan Documents, including the reasonable fees and disbursements of their respective counsel (including the allocated fees and expenses of in-house counsel) and any payments in indemnification or otherwise payable by the Lenders to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Loan Documents, (c) to pay, indemnify and hold the Administrative Agent, and the Lenders harmless from any and all recording and filing fees and any and all liabilities with respect to, or resulting from any failure to pay or delay in paying, documentary, stamp, excise and other similar taxes, if any, which may be payable or determined to be payable in connection with the execution and delivery of any of the Loan Documents, or consummation of any amendment, supplement or modification of, or any waiver or consent under or in respect of, any Loan Document and (d) to the extent not already covered by any of the preceding subsections, to pay the fees and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent and any Lender incurred in connection with the representation of the Administrative Agent or such Lender in any matter relating to or arising out of any bankruptcy or other proceeding of the type described in Section 9.1(e) or Section 9.1(f), including, without limitation (i) any
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motion for relief from any stay or similar order, (ii) the negotiation, preparation, execution and delivery of any document relating to the Obligations and (iii) the negotiation and preparation of any debtor-in-possession financing or any plan of reorganization of the Parent, any other Borrower or any other Loan Party, whether proposed by the Parent, any other Borrower, such Loan Party, the Lenders or any other Person, and whether such fees and expenses are incurred prior to, during or after the commencement of such proceeding or the confirmation or conclusion of any such proceeding.
Section 11.3. Stamp, Intangible and Recording Taxes.
The Borrower will pay any and all stamp, excise, intangible, registration, recordation and similar taxes, fees or charges and shall indemnify the Administrative Agent and each Lender against any and all liabilities with respect to or resulting from any delay in the payment or omission to pay any such taxes, fees or charges, which may be payable or determined to be payable in connection with the execution, delivery, recording, performance or enforcement of this Agreement, the Notes and any of the other Loan Documents, the amendment, supplement, modification or waiver of or consent under this Agreement, the Notes, any of the other Loan Documents or the perfection of any rights or Liens under this Agreement, the Notes, any of the other Loan Documents.
Section 11.4. Setoff.
Subject to Section 3.3 and in addition to any rights now or hereafter granted under Applicable Law and not by way of limitation of any such rights, the Administrative Agent, each Lender, and each Participant is hereby authorized by the Borrower, at any time or from time to time while an Event of Default exists, without notice to the Borrower or to any other Person, any such notice being hereby expressly waived, but in the case of a Lender, or a Participant subject to receipt of the prior written consent of the Requisite Lenders exercised in their sole discretion, to set off and to appropriate and to apply any and all deposits (general or special, including, but not limited to, indebtedness evidenced by certificates of deposit, whether matured or unmatured) and any other indebtedness at any time held or owing by the Administrative Agent, such Lender or any Affiliate of the Administrative Agent, or such Lender, to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower against and on account of any of the Obligations, irrespective of whether or not any or all of the Loans and all other Obligations have been declared to be, or have otherwise become, due and payable as permitted by Section 9.2, and although such obligations shall be contingent or unmatured. Promptly following any such set-off the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower thereof and of the application of such set-off, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not invalidate such set-off. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section, if any Defaulting Lender shall exercise any such right of setoff, (x) all amounts so set off shall be paid over immediately to the Administrative Agent for further application in accordance with the provisions of Section 3.9 and, pending such payment, shall be segregated by such Defaulting Lender from its other funds and deemed held in trust for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and (y) such Defaulting Lender shall provide promptly to the Administrative Agent a statement describing in reasonable detail the Obligations owing to such Defaulting Lender as to which it exercised such right of setoff.
Section 11.5. Litigation; Jurisdiction; Other Matters; Waivers.
(a) EACH PARTY HERETO ACKNOWLEDGES THAT ANY DISPUTE OR CONTROVERSY BETWEEN OR AMONG THE BORROWER, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, OR ANY OF THE LENDERS WOULD BE BASED ON DIFFICULT AND COMPLEX ISSUES OF LAW AND FACT AND WOULD RESULT IN DELAY AND EXPENSE TO THE PARTIES. ACCORDINGLY, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EACH OF THE LENDERS, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE BORROWER HEREBY WAIVES ITS
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RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING OF ANY KIND OR NATURE IN ANY COURT OR TRIBUNAL IN WHICH AN ACTION MAY BE COMMENCED BY OR AGAINST ANY PARTY HERETO ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT.
(b) EACH OF THE BORROWER, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, AND EACH LENDER HEREBY AGREES THAT THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK (BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN), ANY STATE COURT LOCATED IN NEW YORK COUNTY (BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN) AND ANY APPELLATE COURT FROM ANY THEREOF, SHALL HAVE JURISDICTION TO HEAR AND DETERMINE ANY CLAIMS OR DISPUTES BETWEEN OR AMONG THE BORROWER, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, OR ANY OF THE LENDERS, PERTAINING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE LOANS OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR TO ANY MATTER ARISING HEREFROM OR THEREFROM. THE BORROWER, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, EACH OF THE LENDERS EXPRESSLY SUBMITS AND CONSENTS IN ADVANCE TO SUCH JURISDICTION IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING COMMENCED IN SUCH COURTS.
(c) EACH PARTY FURTHER WAIVES ANY OBJECTION THAT IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE VENUE OF ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT OR THAT SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING WAS BROUGHT IN AN INCONVENIENT FORUM AND EACH AGREES NOT TO PLEAD OR CLAIM THE SAME.
(d) THE CHOICE OF FORUM SET FORTH IN THIS SECTION SHALL NOT BE DEEMED TO PRECLUDE THE BRINGING OF ANY ACTION BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR ANY LENDER OR THE ENFORCEMENT BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR ANY LENDER OF ANY JUDGMENT OBTAINED IN SUCH FORUM IN ANY OTHER APPROPRIATE JURISDICTION.
(e) THE FOREGOING WAIVERS HAVE BEEN MADE WITH THE ADVICE OF COUNSEL AND WITH A FULL UNDERSTANDING OF THE LEGAL CONSEQUENCES THEREOF, AND SHALL SURVIVE THE PAYMENT OF THE LOANS AND ALL OTHER AMOUNTS PAYABLE HEREUNDER OR UNDER ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS AND THE TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT.
Section 11.6. Successors and Assigns.
(a) Successors and Assigns Generally. The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, except that neither the Borrower nor any other Loan Party may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent and each Lender, and no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder except (i) to an Eligible Assignee in accordance with the provisions of the immediately following subsection (b), (ii) by way of participation in accordance with the provisions of the immediately following subsection (d) or (iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest subject to the restrictions of the immediately following subsection (e) (and, subject to the last sentence of the immediately following subsection (b), any other attempted assignment or transfer by any party hereto shall be null and void). 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, Participants to the extent provided in the immediately following subsection (d) and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the respective partners, shareholders, directors, officers, employees, agents, counsel, other advisors and representatives of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and of the respective Affiliates of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.
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(b) Assignments by Lenders. Any Lender may at any time assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it); provided that any such assignment shall be subject to the following conditions:
(i) Minimum Amounts.
(A) in the case of an assignment of the entire remaining amount of an assigning Lenders Commitment and/or the Loans at the time owing to it, in the case of contemporaneous assignments to related Approved Funds that equal at least the amount specified in the immediately following clause (B) in the aggregate, or in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund, no minimum amount need be assigned; and
(B) in any case not described in the immediately preceding subsection (A), the aggregate amount of the Commitment (which for this purpose includes Loans outstanding thereunder) or, if the applicable Commitment is not then in effect, the principal outstanding balance of the Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (in each case, determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption Agreement with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent or, if Trade Date is specified in the Assignment and Assumption Agreement, as of the Trade Date) shall not be less than $1,000,000, unless the Administrative Agent otherwise consents (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed); provided, however, that if, after giving effect to such assignment, the amount of the Commitment held by such assigning Lender or the outstanding principal balance of the Loans of such assigning Lender, as applicable, would be less than $1,000,000, then such assigning Lender shall assign the entire amount of its Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it.
(ii) Proportionate Amounts. Each partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lenders rights and obligations under this Agreement with respect to the Loans or the Commitment assigned.
(iii) Required Consents. No consent shall be required for any assignment except to the extent required by clause (i)(B) of this subsection (b) and, in addition, the consent of the Administrative Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) shall be required for assignments in respect of a Commitment if such assignment is to a Person that is not already a Lender with a Commitment, an Affiliate of such a Lender or an Approved Fund with respect to such a Lender; and
(iv) Assignment and Acceptance; Notes. The parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption Agreement, together with a processing and recordation fee of $4,500 for each assignment (which fee the Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, elect to waive), and the assignee, if it is not a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire. If requested by the transferor Lender or the assignee, upon the consummation of any assignment, the transferor Lender, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall make appropriate arrangements so that new Notes are issued to the assignee and such transferor Lender, as appropriate, upon return to the Borrower of any Notes being replaced (subject to Section 2.13(d)).
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(v) No Assignment to Certain Persons. No such assignment shall be made to (A) the Borrower or any of the Borrowers Affiliates or Subsidiaries or (B) to any Defaulting Lender or any of its Subsidiaries, or to any Person who, upon becoming a Lender hereunder, would constitute any of the foregoing Persons described in this clause (B).
(vi) No Assignment to Natural Persons. No such assignment shall be made to a natural person.
(vii) Certain Additional Payments. In connection with any assignment of rights and obligations of any Defaulting Lender hereunder, no such assignment shall be effective unless and until, in addition to the other conditions thereto set forth herein, the parties to the assignment shall make such additional payments to the Administrative Agent in an aggregate amount sufficient, upon distribution thereof as appropriate (which may be outright payment, purchases by the assignee of participations or subparticipations, or other compensating actions, including funding, with the consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, the applicable pro rata share of Loans previously requested but not funded by the Defaulting Lender, to each of which the applicable assignee and assignor hereby irrevocably consent), to (x) pay and satisfy in full all payment liabilities then owed by such Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent and each other Lender hereunder (and interest accrued thereon), and (y) acquire (and fund as appropriate) its full pro rata share of all Loans in accordance with its Term Loan Commitment Percentage. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any assignment of rights and obligations of any Defaulting Lender hereunder shall become effective under Applicable Law without compliance with the provisions of this paragraph, then the assignee of such interest shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender for all purposes of this Agreement until such compliance occurs.
Subject to acceptance and recording thereof by the Administrative Agent pursuant to the immediately following subsection (c), from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption Agreement, the assignee thereunder shall be a party to this Agreement and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption Agreement, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption Agreement, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption Agreement covering all of the assigning Lenders rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto) but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Section 4.4, Section 11.2 and Section 11.10 and the other provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as provided in Section 11.11 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such assignment; provided, that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no assignment by a Defaulting Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lender having been a Defaulting Lender. Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this paragraph shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with the immediately following subsection (d).
(c) Register. The Administrative Agent, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at the Principal Office in the United States of America a copy of each Assignment and Assumption Agreement delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal amounts (and stated interest) of the Loans owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the Register). The
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entries in the Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(d) Participations. Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to any bank or other financial institution (but in no event to a natural Person or the Borrower or any of the Borrowers Affiliates or Subsidiaries or a Defaulting Lender) (each, a Participant) in all or a portion of such Lenders rights and/or obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and/or the Loans owing to it); provided that (i) such Lenders obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (iii) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lenders rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to (w) increase such Lenders Commitment (unless such increase will not result in an increase in the Participants share), (x) extend the date fixed for the payment of principal on the Loans or portions thereof owing to such Lender except as otherwise provided in Section 2.15, (y) reduce the rate at which interest is payable thereon or (z) release any Guarantor from its Obligations under the Guaranty except as contemplated by Section 7.15(d) of the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement as incorporated herein by Section 7.1 of this Agreement, in each case, as applicable to that portion of such Lenders rights and/or obligations that are subject to the participation. The Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.10, Section 4.1, Section 4.4 (subject to the requirements and limitations therein, including the requirements under Section 3.10(g) (it being understood that the documentation required under Section 3.10(g) shall be delivered to the participating Lender)) to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to subsection (b) of this Section; provided that such Participant (A) agrees to be subject to the provisions of Section 4.6 as if it were an assignee under subsection (b) of this Section; and (B) shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 4.1 or Section 3.10, with respect to any participation, than its participating Lender would have been entitled to receive, except to the extent such entitlement to receive a greater payment results from a Regulatory Change that occurs after the Participant acquired the applicable participation. Each Lender that sells a participation agrees, at the Borrowers request and expense, to use reasonable efforts to cooperate with the Borrower to effectuate the provisions of Section 4.6. with respect to any Participant. To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 11.4 as though it were a Lender; provided that such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 3.3 as though it were a Lender. Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participants interest in the Loans or other obligations under the Loan Documents (the Participant Register); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participants interest in any commitments, loans, letters of credit or its other obligations under any Loan Document) to any Person except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such commitment, loan, letter of credit or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent (in its capacity as Administrative Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register.
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(e) Certain Pledges. Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank; provided that no such pledge or assignment shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.
(f) No Registration. Each Lender agrees that, without the prior written consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, it will not make any assignment hereunder in any manner or under any circumstances that would require registration or qualification of, or filings in respect of, any Loan or Note under the Securities Act or any other securities laws of the United States of America or of any other jurisdiction.
(g) USA Patriot Act Notice; Compliance. In order for the Administrative Agent to comply with know your customer and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including without limitation, the Patriot Act, prior to any Lender that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction outside of the United States of America becoming a party hereto, the Administrative Agent may request, and such Lender shall provide to the Administrative Agent, its name, address, tax identification number and/or such other identification information as shall be necessary for the Administrative Agent to comply with federal law.
(h) Information to Assignee, Etc. A Lender may furnish any information concerning the Parent, any other Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Subsidiary in the possession of such Lender from time to time to assignees and Participants of such Lender (including prospective assignees and Participants) subject to compliance with the applicable terms of Section 11.9.
Section 11.7. Amendments and Waivers.
(a) Generally. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, (i) any consent or approval required or permitted by this Agreement or in any Loan Document to be given by the Lenders may be given, (ii) any term of this Agreement or of any other Loan Document may be amended, (iii) the performance or observance by the Borrower or any other Loan Party of any terms of this Agreement or such other Loan Document may be waived, and (iv) the continuance of any Default or Event of Default may be waived (either generally or in a particular instance and either retroactively or prospectively) with, but only with, the written consent of the Requisite Lenders (or the Administrative Agent at the written direction of the Requisite Lenders), and, in the case of an amendment to any Loan Document, the written consent of each Loan Party which is party thereto.
(b) Consent of Lenders Directly Affected. In addition to the foregoing requirements, no amendment, waiver or consent shall:
(i) increase, extend or reinstate any Commitment of a Lender (excluding any increase as a result of an assignment of Commitments permitted under Section 11.6) or subject a Lender to any additional obligations without the written consent of such Lender;
(ii) reduce the principal of, or interest that has accrued or the rates of interest that will be charged on the outstanding principal amount of, the Loans or the other Obligations of a Lender without the written consent of such Lender;
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(iii) reduce the amount of any Fees payable to a Lender hereunder without the written consent of such Lender;
(iv) modify the definition of Term Loan Maturity Date, or otherwise postpone any date fixed for, or forgive, any payment of principal of, or interest on, any Term Loans or for the payment of Fees or any other Obligations owing to any Lender, in each case, without the written consent of such Lender;
(v) amend this Section or amend the definitions of the terms used in this Agreement or the other Loan Documents insofar as such definitions affect the substance of this Section without the written consent of each Lender;
(vi) modify the definition of the term Requisite Lenders or Pro Rata Share or otherwise modify the provisions of Section 3.2 or Section 9.5 without the written consent of each Lender;
(vii) release any Guarantor from its obligations under the Guaranty without the written consent of each Lender, except as contemplated under Section 7.15(d) of the Existing Revolving Credit Agreement;
(viii) waive a Default or Event of Default under Section 9.1(a) without the written consent of each Lender to whom such payment is due, except as permitted by Section 9.8; or
(ix) amend, or waive the Borrowers compliance with, Section 2.19 without the written consent of each Lender adversely affected thereby.
(c) Amendment of Administrative Agents Duties, Etc. No amendment, waiver or consent unless in writing and signed by the Administrative Agent, in addition to the Lenders required hereinabove to take such action, shall affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents. The Administrative Agent may, without the consent of any Lender, enter into the amendments or modifications to this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents or enter into additional Loan Documents as the Administrative Agent reasonably deems appropriate in order to implement any Replacement Rate or otherwise effectuate the terms of Section 4.2(b) in accordance with the terms of Section 4.2(b). No waiver shall extend to or affect any obligation not expressly waived or impair any right consequent thereon and any amendment, waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose set forth therein. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no Defaulting Lender shall have any right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent hereunder (and any amendment, waiver or consent which by its terms requires the consent of all Lenders or each affected Lender may be effected with the consent of the applicable Lenders other than Defaulting Lenders), except that (x) the Commitment of a Defaulting Lender may not be increased, reinstated or extended without the written consent of such Defaulting Lender and (y) any waiver, amendment or modification requiring the consent of each affected Lender under the immediately preceding (b) that by its terms affects any Defaulting Lender more adversely than other affected Lenders shall require the written consent of such Defaulting Lender. No course of dealing or delay or omission on the part of the Administrative Agent or any Lender in exercising any right shall operate as a waiver thereof or otherwise be prejudicial thereto. Any Event of Default occurring hereunder shall continue to exist until such time as such Event of Default is waived in writing in accordance with the terms of this Section, notwithstanding any attempted cure or other action by the Parent, any other Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Person subsequent to the occurrence of such Event of Default. Except as otherwise explicitly provided for herein or in any other Loan Document, no notice to or demand upon the Borrower shall entitle the Borrower to other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances.
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Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, each Lender hereby irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent on its behalf, and without further consent of any Lender (but with the consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent), to amend or amend and restate this Agreement if, upon giving effect to such amendment or amendment and restatement, such Lender shall no longer be a party to this Agreement (as so amended or amended and restated), the Commitments of such Lender shall have terminated, such Lender shall have no other commitments or other obligation hereunder and shall have been paid in full all principal, interest and other amounts owing to it or accrued for its account under this Agreement.
(d) Technical Amendments. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 11.7, if the Administrative Agent and the Borrower have jointly identified an ambiguity, omission, mistake or defect in any provision of this Agreement or an inconsistency between provisions of this Agreement, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall be permitted to amend such provision or provisions to cure such ambiguity, omission, mistake, defect or inconsistency so long as to do so would not adversely affect the interests of the Lenders or materially change the intent of any provision of this Agreement. Any such amendment shall become effective without any further action or consent of any of other party to this Agreement. The Administrative Agent will provide the Lenders with a copy of any such amendment.
Section 11.8. Nonliability of Administrative Agent and Lenders.
The relationship between the Borrower, on the one hand, and the Lenders and the Administrative Agent, on the other hand, shall be solely that of borrower and lender. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall have any fiduciary responsibilities to the Borrower and no provision in this Agreement or in any of the other Loan Documents, and no course of dealing between or among any of the parties hereto, shall be deemed to create any fiduciary duty owing by the Administrative Agent or any Lender to any Lender, the Borrower, any other Subsidiary or any other Loan Party. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender undertakes any responsibility to the Borrower to review or inform the Borrower of any matter in connection with any phase of the business or operations of the Borrower.
Section 11.9. Confidentiality.
Except as otherwise provided by Applicable Law, the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall utilize all non-public information obtained pursuant to the requirements of this Agreement which has been identified as confidential or proprietary by the Parent or PREIT in accordance with its customary procedure for handling confidential information of this nature and in accordance with safe and sound banking practices solely in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement but in any event may make disclosure: (a) to any of their respective Affiliates (provided any such Affiliate shall agree to keep such information confidential in accordance with the terms of this Section); (b) as reasonably requested by any bona fide assignee, Participant or other transferee in connection with the contemplated transfer of any Commitment and/or Loans or participations therein as permitted hereunder (provided they shall agree to keep such information confidential in accordance with the terms of this Section); (c) as required or requested by any Governmental Authority or representative thereof or pursuant to legal process or in connection with any legal proceedings; (d) to the Administrative Agents or such Lenders independent auditors and other professional advisors (provided they shall be notified of the confidential nature of the information); (e) if an Event of Default exists, to any other Person, in connection with the exercise by the Administrative Agent or the Lenders of rights hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents; (f) to the extent such information (x) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section or (y) becomes available to the Administrative Agent or any Lender on a non-confidential basis from a source other than the Parent, any other Borrower or any Affiliate; (g) to the extent requested by, or required to be disclosed to, any nationally recognized rating agency or regulator or similar authority (including any self-regulatory authority, such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners) having or purporting to have jurisdiction over it; and (h) with the consent of the Parent or PREIT.
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Section 11.10. Indemnification.
(a) The Borrower shall and hereby agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Administrative Agent, any Affiliate of the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders and their respective directors, officers, shareholders, agents, employees and counsel (each referred to herein as an Indemnified Party) from and against any and all losses, costs, claims, damages, liabilities, deficiencies, judgments or expenses of every kind and nature (including, without limitation, amounts paid in settlement, court costs and the fees and disbursements of counsel incurred in connection with any litigation, investigation, claim or proceeding or any advice rendered in connection therewith, but excluding losses, costs, claims, damages, liabilities, deficiencies, judgments or expenses indemnification in respect of which is specifically covered by Section 3.10 or Section 4.1 or expressly excluded from the coverage of such Sections) incurred by an Indemnified Party in connection with, arising out of, or by reason of, any suit, cause of action, claim, arbitration, investigation or settlement, consent decree or other proceeding (the foregoing referred to herein as an Indemnity Proceeding) which is in any way related directly or indirectly to: (i) this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the transactions contemplated thereby; (ii) the making of any Loans hereunder; (iii) any actual or proposed use by the Borrower of the proceeds of the Loans; (iv) the Administrative Agents or any Lenders entering into this Agreement; (v) the fact that the Administrative Agent and the Lenders have established the credit facility evidenced hereby in favor of the Borrower; (vi) the fact that the Administrative Agent and the Lenders are creditors of the Borrower and have or are alleged to have information regarding the financial condition, strategic plans or business operations of the Parent, PREIT and the other Subsidiaries; (vii) the fact that the Administrative Agent and the Lenders are material creditors of the Borrower and are alleged to influence directly or indirectly the business decisions or affairs of the Parent, PREIT and the other Subsidiaries or their financial condition; (viii) the exercise of any right or remedy the Administrative Agent or the Lenders may have under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents including, but not limited to, the foreclosure upon, or seizure of, any collateral or the exercise of any other rights of a secured party; provided, however, that the Borrower shall not be obligated to indemnify any Indemnified Party for any acts or omissions of such Indemnified Party in connection with matters described in clause (i) or (viii) to the extent found in a final, non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from such Indemnified Partys gross negligence or willful misconduct; or (ix) any violation or non-compliance by the Parent, PREIT or any other Subsidiary of any Applicable Law (including any Environmental Law) including, but not limited to, any Indemnity Proceeding commenced by (A) the Internal Revenue Service or state taxing authority or (B) any Governmental Authority or other Person under any Environmental Law, including any Indemnity Proceeding commenced by a Governmental Authority or other Person seeking remedial or other action to cause the Borrower or its Subsidiaries (or its respective properties) (or the Administrative Agent and/or the Lenders as successors to the Borrower) to be in compliance with such Environmental Laws.
(b) The Borrowers indemnification obligations under this Section shall apply to all Indemnity Proceedings arising out of, or related to, the foregoing whether or not an Indemnified Party is a named party in such Indemnity Proceeding. In this connection, this indemnification shall cover all costs and expenses of any Indemnified Party in connection with any deposition of any Indemnified Party or compliance with any subpoena (including any subpoena requesting the production of documents). This indemnification shall, among other things, apply to any Indemnity Proceeding commenced by other creditors of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, any shareholder of the Borrower or any Subsidiary (whether such shareholder(s) are prosecuting such Indemnity Proceeding in their individual capacity or derivatively on behalf of the Borrower), any account debtor of the Borrower or any Subsidiary or by any Governmental Authority.
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(c) This indemnification shall apply to any Indemnity Proceeding arising during the pendency of any bankruptcy proceeding filed by or against the Parent, PREIT, any other Loan Party or any other Subsidiary.
(d) All out-of-pocket fees and expenses of, and all amounts paid to third-persons by, an Indemnified Party in connection with an Indemnity Proceeding shall be advanced by the Borrower at the request of such Indemnified Party notwithstanding any claim or assertion by the Borrower that such Indemnified Party is not entitled to indemnification hereunder upon receipt of an undertaking by such Indemnified Party that such Indemnified Party will reimburse the Borrower if it is actually and finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction that such Indemnified Party is not so entitled to indemnification hereunder.
(e) An Indemnified Party may conduct its own investigation and defense of, and may formulate its own strategy with respect to, any Indemnity Proceeding covered by this Section and, as provided above, all costs and expenses incurred by such Indemnified Party shall be reimbursed by the Borrower. No action taken by legal counsel chosen by an Indemnified Party in investigating or defending against any such Indemnity Proceeding shall vitiate or in any way impair the obligations and duties of the Borrower hereunder to indemnify and hold harmless each such Indemnified Party; provided, however, that (i) if the Borrower is required to indemnify an Indemnified Party pursuant hereto and (ii) the Borrower has provided evidence reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Party that the Borrower has the financial wherewithal to reimburse such Indemnified Party for any amount paid by such Indemnified Party with respect to such Indemnity Proceeding, such Indemnified Party shall not settle or compromise any such Indemnity Proceeding without the prior written consent of the Borrower (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed). Notwithstanding the foregoing, an Indemnified Party may settle or compromise any such Indemnity Proceeding without the prior written consent of the Borrower where (x) no monetary relief is sought against such Indemnified Party in such Indemnity Proceeding or (y) there is an allegation of a violation of law by such Indemnified Party.
(f) If and to the extent that the obligations of the Borrower under this Section are unenforceable for any reason, the Borrower hereby agrees to make the maximum contribution to the payment and satisfaction of such obligations which is permissible under Applicable Law.
(g) The Borrowers obligations under this Section shall survive any termination of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and the payment in full in cash of the Obligations, and are in addition to, and not in substitution of, any of the other obligations set forth in this Agreement or any other Loan Document to which it is a party.
Section 11.11. Termination; Survival.
This Agreement shall terminate and any and all security interest in the Collateral provided for in the Loan Documents shall be released in accordance with the terms of each respective Loan Document, as applicable, at such time as (a) all of the Commitments have been terminated, (b) none of the Lenders is obligated any longer under this Agreement to make any Loans, and (c) all Obligations (other than obligations which survive as provided in the following sentence) have been paid and satisfied in full. Notwithstanding any termination of this Agreement, or of the other Loan Documents, the indemnities to which the Administrative Agent and the Lenders are entitled under the provisions of Section 10.7, Section 11.2 and Section 11.10 and any other provision of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and the waivers of jury trial and submission to jurisdictions contained in Section 11.5, shall continue in full force and effect and shall protect the Administrative Agent and the Lenders (i) notwithstanding any termination of this Agreement, or of the other Loan Documents, against events arising after such termination as well as before and (ii) at all times after any such party ceases to be a party to this Agreement with respect to all matters and events existing on or prior to the date such party ceased to be a party to this Agreement.
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Section 11.12. Severability of Provisions.
If any provision under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents shall be determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision shall be deemed severed from the Loan Documents, and the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall remain in full force as thought the invalid, illegal, or unenforceable provision had never been part of the Loan Documents.
Section 11.13. GOVERNING LAW.
THIS AGREEMENT AND ANY CLAIMS, CONTROVERSY, DISPUTE OR CAUSE OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR OTHERWISE) BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
Section 11.14. Counterparts.
To facilitate execution, this Agreement and any amendments, waivers, consents or supplements may be executed in any number of counterparts as may be convenient or required. It shall not be necessary that the signature of, or on behalf of, each party, or that the signature of all persons required to bind any party, appear on each counterpart. All counterparts shall collectively constitute a single document. It shall not be necessary in making proof of this document to produce or account for more than a single counterpart containing the respective signatures of, or on behalf of, each of the parties hereto. Delivery of an executed counterpart via facsimile, portable document format (PDF) or electronic mail shall constitute delivery of an original.
Section 11.15. Independence of Covenants.
All covenants hereunder shall be given in any jurisdiction 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 be otherwise 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.
Section 11.16. Obligations with Respect to Loan Parties.
The obligations of PREIT, PREIT-RUBIN or the Parent to direct or prohibit the taking of certain actions by the other Loan Parties as specified herein shall be absolute and not subject to any defense PREIT, PREIT-RUBIN, the Parent or any other Loan Party may have that it does not control such Loan Parties.
Section 11.17. Limitation of Liability.
None of the Administrative Agent, any Lender, nor any Affiliate, officer, director, employee, attorney, or agent of the Administrative Agent or any Lender shall have any liability with respect to, and the Borrower hereby waives, releases, and agrees not to sue any of them upon, any claim for any special, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages suffered or incurred by the Borrower in connection with, arising out of, or in any way related to, this Agreement, any of the other Loan Documents or any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents. The Borrower hereby
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waives, releases, and agrees not to sue the Administrative Agent or any Lender or any of their respective Affiliates, officers, directors, employees, attorneys, or agents for punitive damages in respect of any claim in connection with, arising out of, or in any way related to, this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, or any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or financed hereby. Notwithstanding anything in this Section to the contrary, no Defaulting Lender shall be entitled to claim any of the benefits of this Section.
Section 11.18. Entire Agreement.
This Agreement and the other Loan Documents referred to herein embody the final, entire agreement among the parties hereto and supersede any and all prior commitments, agreements, representations, and understandings, whether written or oral, relating to the subject matter hereof and may not be contradicted or varied by evidence of prior, contemporaneous, or subsequent oral agreements or discussions of the parties hereto. There are no oral agreements among the parties hereto.
Section 11.19. Construction.
The Borrower, the Administrative Agent and each Lender acknowledge that each of them has had the benefit of legal counsel of its own choice and has been afforded an opportunity to review this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with its legal counsel and that this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be construed as if jointly drafted by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and each Lender.
Section 11.20. Time of the Essence.
Time is of the essence of each and every provision in this Agreement.
Section 11.21. Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding among any such parties, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any Affected Financial Institution arising under any Loan Document, to the extent such liability is unsecured, may be subject to the Write-Down and Conversion Powers of the applicable Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by:
(a) the application of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be payable to it by any party hereto that is an Affected Financial Institution; and
(b) the effects of any Bail-In Action on any such liability, including, if applicable:
(i) a reduction in full or in part or cancellation of any such liability;
(ii) a conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership in such Affected Financial Institution, its parent undertaking, or a bridge institution that may be issued to it or otherwise conferred on it, and that such shares or other instruments of ownership will be accepted by it in lieu of any rights with respect to any such liability under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; or
(iii) the variation of the terms of such liability in connection with the exercise of the Write-Down and Conversion Powers of the applicable Resolution Authority.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Credit Agreement to be executed by their authorized officers all as of the day and year first above written.
BORROWER | ||||
PREIT ASSOCIATES, L.P. | ||||
By: Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, its general partner | ||||
By: | /s/ Andrew Ioannou | |||
Name: | Andrew Ioannou | |||
| Title: | Executive Vice President, Finance & Acquisitions and Treasurer |
PREIT-RUBIN, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Andrew Ioannou | |
Name: | Andrew Ioannou | |
Title: | Executive Vice President, Finance & Acquisitions and Treasurer |
PENNSYLVANIA REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST | ||
By: | /s/ Andrew Ioannou | |
Name: | Andrew Ioannou | |
Title: | Executive Vice President, Finance & Acquisitions and Treasurer |
[Signatures Continued on Next Page]
[Signature Page to Credit Agreement with PREIT Associates, L.P. et al.]
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Administrative Agent and as a Lender | ||
By: | /s/ Ryan Sansavera | |
Name: | Ryan Sansavera | |
Title: | Senior Vice President |
SCHEDULE I
Commitments
Term Loan Commitments
Lenders
| Term Loan Commitment Amount
| |
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association | $30,000,000 | |
TOTAL | $30,000,000 |
SCHEDULE 1.1(b)
Properties
Property Name
| Street Address
| |
Woodland Mall Anchor (prior Sears parcel) | 3195 28th Street SE, Kentwood, MI 49512 (a/k/a 3099-3195 28th Street, Kentwood, MI) | |
Mall at Prince Georges Plaza | 3500 East West Highway and 6400 Belcrest Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782 | |
Valley Mall | 17301, 176044, 17618 and 17318 Valley Mall Road and Cole Road, Hagerstown, MD (a/k/a 1730117318 Valley Mall Road, Hagerstown, MD) | |
Jacksonville Mall | 375 Western Boulevard, Jacksonville, NC 28546 (a/k/a 375 Jacksonville Mall, Jacksonville, North Carolina 28546) | |
One Cherry Hill Plaza | 2000 Route 38, Cherry Hill, NJ 08002 (a/k/a 1 Mall Drive, Cherry Hill, NJ) | |
Moorestown Mall | 400 West Route 38 / 400 Highway 38, Moorestown, NJ 08057 (a/k/a 400 NJ-38, Moorestown, NJ) | |
Exton Square Mall | 126, 435, 441, 455, 475 Exton Square Parkway, East Lincoln Highway, North Pottstown Park, and Swedesford Road, Exton, PA 19341 (a/k/a 260 Exton Square Parkway, Exton, PA 19341) | |
Capital City Mall | 3506 Capital City Mall Drive, Camp Hill, PA 17011 | |
Plymouth Meeting Mall (not Plymouth Commons parcel) | West Germantown Pike, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462 (a/k/a 500 W Germantown Pike, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462) | |
Magnolia Mall | 2701 David H McLeod Boulevard, Florence, SC 29501 | |
Springfield Town Center | 6601, 6302, 6500 and 6320 Springfield Mall, 6717 and 6500 Frontier Drive and 6417 Loisdale Road, Springfield, VA 22150 | |
Valleyview Mall outparcel (recently subdivided from mall) | 4400 State Road 16, La Crosse, WI 54601 (a/k/a 4400-4444 Rt 16, La Crosse, WI) |
EXHIBIT A
FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT
This Assignment and Assumption Agreement (the Assignment and Assumption) is dated as of the Effective Date set forth below and is entered into by and between [the][each]1 Assignor identified in item 1 below ([the][each, an] Assignor) and [the][each]2 Assignee identified in item 2 below ([the][each, an] Assignee). [It is understood and agreed that the rights and obligations of [the Assignors][the Assignees]3 hereunder are several and not joint.]4 Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement identified below (as amended from time to time, the Credit Agreement), receipt of a copy of which is hereby acknowledged by [the][each] Assignee. The Standard Terms and Conditions for Assignment and Assumption (the Standard Terms and Conditions) set forth in Annex 1 attached hereto are hereby agreed to and incorporated herein by reference and made a part of this Assignment and Assumption as if set forth herein in full.
For an agreed consideration, [the][each] Assignor hereby irrevocably sells and assigns to [the Assignee][the respective Assignees], and [the][each] Assignee hereby irrevocably purchases and assumes from [the Assignor][the respective Assignors], subject to and in accordance with the Standard Terms and Conditions and the Credit Agreement, as of the Effective Date inserted by the Administrative Agent as contemplated below (i) all of [the Assignors][the respective Assignors] rights and obligations in [its capacity as a Lender][their respective capacities as Lenders] under the Credit Agreement and any other documents or instruments delivered pursuant thereto to the extent related to the amount and percentage interest identified below of all of such outstanding rights and obligations of [the Assignor][the respective Assignors] under the Credit Agreement (including without limitation any Guarantees included in such Credit Agreement), and (ii) to the extent permitted to be assigned under applicable law, all claims, suits, causes of action and any other right of [the][any] Assignor (in its capacity as a Lender)][the respective Assignors (in their respective capacities as Lenders)] against any Person, whether known or unknown, arising under or in connection with the Credit Agreement, any other documents or instruments delivered pursuant thereto or the loan transactions governed thereby or in any way based on or related to any of the foregoing, including, but not limited to, contract claims, tort claims, malpractice claims, statutory claims and all other claims at law or in equity related to the rights and obligations sold and assigned pursuant to clause (i) above (the rights and obligations sold and assigned by [the][any] Assignor to [the][any] Assignee pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) above being referred to herein collectively as [the][an] Assigned Interest). Each such sale and assignment is without recourse to [the][any] Assignor and, except as expressly provided in this Assignment and Assumption, without representation or warranty by [the][any] Assignor.
1. | Assignor[s]: | _______________________ | ||
_______________________ |
1 | For bracketed language here and elsewhere in this form relating to the Assignor(s), if the assignment is from a single Assignor, choose the first bracketed language. If the assignment is from multiple Assignors, choose the second bracketed language. |
2 | For bracketed language here and elsewhere in this form relating to the Assignee(s), if the assignment is to a single Assignee, choose the first bracketed language. If the assignment is to multiple Assignees, choose the second bracketed language. |
3 | Select as appropriate. |
4 | Include bracketed language if there are either multiple Assignors or multiple Assignees. |
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[Assignor [is] [is not] a Defaulting Lender] | ||||
2. | Assignee[s]: | _______________________ | ||
_______________________ | ||||
[for each Assignee, indicate [Affiliate][Approved Fund] of [identify Lender] | ||||
3. | Borrower(s): | PREIT Associates, L.P., PREIT-RUBIN, Inc. and Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust | ||
4. | Administrative Agent: | Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as the administrative agent under the Credit Agreement | ||
5. | Credit Agreement: | The $30,000,000 Credit Agreement dated as of August 11, 2020 by and among the Borrowers, the Lenders parties thereto, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent, and the other parties thereto | ||
6. | Assigned Interest[s]: |
Assignor[s]5 | Assignee[s]6 | Aggregate Amount of Commitment/Loans for all Lenders7 | Amount of Commitment/Loans Assigned8 | Percentage Assigned of Commitment/ Loans8 | CUSIP Number | |||||
7. | Trade Name: | _______________________]9 |
5 | List each Assignor, as appropriate. |
6 | List each Assignee, as appropriate. |
7 | Amount to be adjusted by the counterparties to take into account any payments or prepayments made between the Trade Date and the Effective Date. |
8 | Set forth, to at least 9 decimals, as a percentage of the Commitment/Loans of all Lenders thereunder. |
9 | To be completed if the Assignor(s) and the Assignee(s) intend that the minimum assignment amount is to be determined as of the Trade Date. |
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Effective Date: _____________________ __, 20__ [TO BE INSERTED BY ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND WHICH SHALL BE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF RECORDATION OF TRANSFER IN THE REGISTER THEREFOR.]
The terms set forth in this Assignment and Assumption are hereby agreed to:
ASSIGNOR[S]10 [NAME OF ASSIGNOR] | ||
By: | ||
Name:_______________________________________________ | ||
Title:________________________________________________ |
[NAME OF ASSIGNOR] | ||
By: | ||
Name:_______________________________________________ | ||
Title:________________________________________________ |
ASSIGNEE[S]11 [NAME OF ASSIGNEE] | ||
By: | ||
Name:_______________________________________________ | ||
Title:________________________________________________ |
[NAME OF ASSIGNEE] | ||
By: | ||
Name:_______________________________________________ | ||
Title:________________________________________________ |
10 | Add additional signature blocks as needed. Include both Fund/Pension Plan and manager making the trade (if applicable). |
11 | Add additional signature blocks as needed. Include both Fund/Pension Plan and manager making the trade (if applicable). |
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[Consented to and]12 Accepted:
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Administrative Agent | ||
By: | ||
Name:_______________________________________________ | ||
Title:________________________________________________ |
[Consented to:]13 | ||
[NAME OF RELEVANT PARTY] | ||
By: | ||
Name:_______________________________________________ | ||
Title:________________________________________________ |
12 | To be added only if the consent of the Administrative Agent is required by the terms of the Credit Agreement. |
13 | To be added only if the consent of the Borrower is required by the terms of the Credit Agreement. |
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ANNEX 1
[__________________]1
STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR
ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION
1. Representations and Warranties.
1.1. Assignor[s]. [The][Each] Assignor (a) represents and warrants that (i) it is the legal and beneficial owner of [the][the relevant] Assigned Interest, (ii) [the][such] Assigned Interest is free and clear of any lien, encumbrance or other adverse claim, (iii) it has full power and authority, and has taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver this Assignment and Assumption and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and (iv) it is [not] a Defaulting Lender; and (b) assumes no responsibility with respect to (i) any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, (ii) the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of the Loan Documents or any collateral thereunder, (iii) the financial condition of the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates or any other Person obligated in respect of any Loan Document, or (iv) the performance or observance by the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates or any other Person of any of their respective obligations under any Loan Document.
1.2. Assignee[s]. [The][Each] Assignee (a) represents and warrants that (i) it has full power and authority, and has taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver this Assignment and Assumption and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and to become a Lender under the Credit Agreement, (ii) it meets all the requirements to be an Eligible Assignee as defined in the Credit Agreement (subject to such consents, if any, as may be required under such definition), (iii) from and after the Effective Date specified for this Assignment and Assumption, it shall be bound by the provisions of the Credit Agreement as a Lender thereunder and, to the extent of [the][the relevant] Assigned Interest, shall have the obligations of a Lender thereunder, (iv) it is sophisticated with respect to decisions to acquire assets of the type represented by the Assigned Interest and either it, or the person exercising discretion in making its decision to acquire the Assigned Interest, is experienced in acquiring assets of such type, (v) it has received a copy of the Credit Agreement and such other documents and information as it deems appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Assignment and Assumption and to purchase [the][such] Assigned Interest, (vi) it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, the Assignor or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Assignment and Assumption and to purchase [the][such] Assigned Interest, and (vii) if it is a Foreign Lender, attached to the Assignment and Assumption is any documentation required to be delivered by it pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement, duly completed and executed by [the][such] Assignee; and (b) agrees that (i) it will, independently and without reliance on the Administrative Agent, [the][any] Assignor or any other Lender, and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under the Loan Documents, and (ii) it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations which by the terms of the Loan Documents are required to be performed by it as a Lender.
2. Payments. From and after the Effective Date, the Administrative Agent shall make all payments in respect of [the][each] Assigned Interest (including payments of principal, interest, Fees and
1 | Describe Credit Agreement at option of Administrative Agent. |
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other amounts) to [the][the relevant] Assignee whether such amounts have accrued prior to, on or after the Effective Date specified for this Assignment and Assumption. The Assignor[s] and the Assignee[s] shall make all appropriate adjustments in payments by the Administrative Agent for periods prior to such Effective Date or with respect to the making of this assignment directly between themselves.
3. General Provisions. This Assignment and Assumption shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. This Assignment and Assumption may be executed in any number of counterparts, which together shall constitute one instrument. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Assignment and Assumption by telecopy shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Assignment and Assumption. This Assignment and Assumption shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York.
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EXHIBIT B
FORM OF GUARANTY
THIS GUARANTY (this Guaranty) dated as of ____________________ executed and delivered by each of the undersigned and the other Persons from time to time party hereto pursuant to the execution and delivery of an Accession Agreement in the form of Annex I hereto (all of the undersigned, together with such other Persons each a Guarantor and collectively, the Guarantors) in favor of WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, in its capacity as Administrative Agent (the Administrative Agent) for the Lenders under that certain Credit Agreement dated as of August 11, 2020 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement), by and among PREIT Associates, L.P. (PREIT), PREIT-RUBIN, Inc. (PREIT-Rubin), Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (the Parent; together with PREIT and PREIT-Rubin, each individually, a Borrower and collectively, the Borrower), the financial institutions party thereto and their assignees under Section 11.6.(b) thereof (the Lenders), and the Administrative Agent, and the other parties thereto, for its benefit and the benefit of the Lenders (the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, each individually a Guarantied Party and collectively, the Guarantied Parties).
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Credit Agreement, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders have agreed to make available to the Borrower certain financial accommodations on the terms and conditions set forth in the Credit Agreement;
WHEREAS, each Guarantor is owned or controlled by the Borrower, or is otherwise an Affiliate of the Borrower;
WHEREAS, the Borrower and each Guarantor, though separate legal entities, are mutually dependent on each other in the conduct of their respective businesses as an integrated operation and have determined it to be in their mutual best interests to obtain financing under the Credit Agreement through their collective efforts;
WHEREAS, each Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive direct and indirect benefits from the Administrative Agent and the Lenders making such financial accommodations available to the Borrower under the Credit Agreement and, accordingly, each Guarantor is willing to guarantee obligations of the Borrower to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders on the terms and conditions contained herein; and
NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged by each Guarantor, each Guarantor agrees as follows:
Section 1. Guaranty. Each Guarantor hereby absolutely, irrevocably and unconditionally guaranties the due and punctual payment and performance when due, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, of all of the following (collectively referred to as the Guarantied Obligations): (a) all Obligations; (b) any and all extensions, renewals, modifications, amendments or substitutions of the foregoing and (c) all expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys fees and disbursements, that are incurred by the Administrative Agent or any other Guarantied Party in the enforcement of any of the foregoing or any obligation of such Guarantor hereunder to the extent set forth in the Credit Agreement.
Section 2. Guaranty of Payment and Not of Collection. This Guaranty is a guaranty of payment, and not of collection, and a debt of each Guarantor for its own account. Accordingly, the Guarantied Parties shall not be obligated or required before enforcing this Guaranty against any Guarantor: (a) to pursue any right or remedy the Guarantied Parties may have against the Borrower or any other Loan Party or any other Person or commence any suit or other proceeding against the Borrower, any other Loan
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Party or any other Person in any court or other tribunal; (b) to make any claim in a liquidation or bankruptcy of the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Person; or (c) to make demand of the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Person or to enforce or seek to enforce or realize upon any collateral security, if any, held by the Guarantied Parties which may secure any of the Guarantied Obligations.
Section 3. Guaranty Absolute. Each Guarantor guarantees that the Guarantied Obligations will be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of the documents evidencing the same, regardless of any Applicable Law now or hereafter in effect in any jurisdiction affecting any of such terms or the rights of the Guarantied Parties with respect thereto. The liability of each Guarantor under this Guaranty shall be absolute, irrevocable and unconditional in accordance with its terms and shall remain in full force and effect without regard to, and shall not be released, suspended, discharged, terminated or otherwise affected by, any circumstance or occurrence whatsoever, including without limitation, the following (whether or not such Guarantor consents thereto or has notice thereof):
(a) (i) any change in the amount, interest rate or due date or other term of any of the Guarantied Obligations, (ii) any change in the time, place or manner of payment of all or any portion of the Guarantied Obligations, (iii) any amendment or waiver of, or consent to the departure from or other indulgence with respect to, the Credit Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other document or instrument evidencing or relating to any Guarantied Obligations, or (iv) any waiver, renewal, extension, addition, or supplement to, or deletion from, or any other action or inaction under or in respect of, the Credit Agreement, any of the other Loan Documents, or any other documents, instruments or agreements relating to the Guarantied Obligations or any other instrument or agreement referred to therein or evidencing any Guarantied Obligations or any assignment or transfer of any of the foregoing;
(b) any lack of validity or enforceability of the Credit Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents or any other document, instrument or agreement referred to therein or evidencing any Guarantied Obligations or any assignment or transfer of any of the foregoing;
(c) any furnishing to the Guarantied Parties of any security for the Guarantied Obligations, or any sale, exchange, release or surrender of, or realization on, any collateral securing any of the Guarantied Obligations;
(d) any settlement or compromise of any of the Guarantied Obligations, any security therefor, or any liability of any other party with respect to the Guarantied Obligations, or any subordination of the payment of the Guarantied Obligations to the payment of any other liability of the Borrower or any other Loan Party;
(e) any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, composition, adjustment, dissolution, liquidation or other like proceeding relating to such Guarantor, the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Person, or any action taken with respect to this Guaranty by any trustee or receiver, or by any court, in any such proceeding;
(f) any act or failure to act by the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Person which may adversely affect such Guarantors subrogation rights, if any, against the Borrower to recover payments made under this Guaranty;
(g) any invalidity or nonperfection of any security interest or lien on, if any, or any other impairment of, any collateral, if any, securing any of the Guarantied Obligations or any failure of the Administrative Agent or any other Person to preserve any collateral security or any other impairment of such collateral;
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(h) any application of sums paid by the Borrower, any Guarantor or any other Person with respect to the liabilities of the Borrower to the Guarantied Parties, regardless of what liabilities of the Borrower remain unpaid;
(i) any defect, limitation or insufficiency in the borrowing powers of the Borrower or in the exercise thereof;
(j) any defense, set off, claim or counterclaim (other than indefeasible payment and performance in full) which any at any time be available to or be asserted by the Borrower, any other Loan party or any other Person against the Administrative Agent or any Lender;
(k) any change in the corporate existence, structure or ownership of the Borrower or any other Loan Party;
(l) any statement, representation or warranty made or deemed made by or on behalf of the Borrower, any Guarantor or any other Loan Party under any Loan Document, or any amendment hereto or thereto, proves to have been incorrect or misleading in any respect; or
(m) any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, a Guarantor hereunder (other than termination of this Guaranty as provided in Section 21 hereof).
Section 4. Action with Respect to Guarantied Obligations. The Guarantied Parties may, at any time and from time to time, without the consent of, or notice to, any Guarantor, and without discharging any Guarantor from its obligations hereunder, take any and all actions described in Section 3 and may otherwise: (a) amend, modify, alter or supplement the terms of any of the Guarantied Obligations, including, but not limited to, extending or shortening the time of payment of any of the Guarantied Obligations or changing the interest rate that may accrue on any of the Guarantied Obligations; (b) amend, modify, alter or supplement the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document; (c) sell, exchange, release or otherwise deal with all, or any part, of any collateral securing any of the Guarantied Obligations; (d) release any Loan Party or other Person liable in any manner for the payment or collection of the Guarantied Obligations; (e) exercise, or refrain from exercising, any rights against the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Person; and (f) apply any sum, by whomsoever paid or however realized, to the Guarantied Obligations in such order as the Guarantied Parties shall elect.
Section 5. Representations and Warranties. Each Guarantor hereby makes to the Administrative Agent and the other Guarantied Parties all of the representations and warranties made by the Borrower with respect to or in any way relating to such Guarantor in the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents, as if the same were set forth herein in full.
Section 6. Covenants. Each Guarantor will comply with all covenants which the Borrower is to cause such Guarantor to comply with under the terms of the Credit Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents.
Section 7. Waiver. Each Guarantor, to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, hereby waives notice of acceptance hereof or any presentment, demand, protest or notice of any kind, and any other act or thing, or omission or delay to do any other act or thing, which in any manner or to any extent might vary the risk of such Guarantor or which otherwise might operate to discharge such Guarantor from its obligations hereunder.
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Section 8. Inability to Accelerate Loan. If the Guarantied Parties or any of them are prevented under Applicable Law or otherwise from demanding or accelerating payment of any of the Guarantied Obligations by reason of any automatic stay or otherwise, the Administrative Agent and/or the other Guarantied Parties shall be entitled to receive from each Guarantor, upon demand therefor, the sums which otherwise would have been due had such demand or acceleration occurred.
Section 9. Reinstatement of Guarantied Obligations. If a claim is ever made on the Administrative Agent or any other Guarantied Party for repayment or recovery of any amount or amounts received in payment or on account of any of the Guarantied Obligations, and the Administrative Agent or such other Guarantied Party repays all or part of said amount by reason of (a) any judgment, decree or order of any court or administrative body of competent jurisdiction, or (b) any settlement or compromise of any such claim effected by the Administrative Agent or such other Guarantied Party with any such claimant (including the Borrower or a trustee in bankruptcy for the Borrower), then and in such event each Guarantor agrees that any such judgment, decree, order, settlement or compromise shall be binding on it, notwithstanding any revocation hereof or the cancellation of the Credit Agreement, any of the other Loan Documents or any other instrument evidencing any liability of the Borrower, and such Guarantor shall be and remain liable to the Administrative Agent or such other Guarantied Party for the amounts so repaid or recovered to the same extent as if such amount had never originally been paid to the Administrative Agent or such other Guarantied Party.
Section 10. Subrogation. Upon the making by any Guarantor of any payment hereunder for the account of the Borrower, such Guarantor shall be subrogated to the rights of the payee against the Borrower; provided, however, that such Guarantor shall not enforce any right or receive any payment by way of subrogation or otherwise take any action in respect of any other claim or cause of action such Guarantor may have against the Borrower arising by reason of any payment or performance by such Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty, unless and until all of the Guarantied Obligations have been indefeasibly paid and performed in full. If any amount shall be paid to such Guarantor on account of or in respect of such subrogation rights or other claims or causes of action, such Guarantor shall hold such amount in trust for the benefit of the Guarantied Parties and shall forthwith pay such amount to the Administrative Agent to be credited and applied against the Guarantied Obligations, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement or to be held by the Administrative Agent as collateral security for any Guarantied Obligations existing.
Section 11. Payments Free and Clear. All sums payable by each Guarantor hereunder, whether of principal, interest, Fees, expenses, premiums or otherwise, shall be paid in full, without set-off or counterclaim or any deduction or withholding whatsoever (including any Taxes), and if such Guarantor is required by Applicable Law or by any Governmental Authority to make any such deduction or withholding provided the requirements set forth in Section 3.10. of the Credit Agreement are satisfied, such Guarantor shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders such additional amount as will result in the receipt by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders of the full amount payable hereunder had such deduction or withholding not occurred or been required.
Section 12. Set-off. In addition to any rights now or hereafter granted under any of the other Loan Documents or Applicable Law and not by way of limitation of any such rights, each Guarantor hereby authorizes each Guarantied Party and each Participant, at any time while an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, without any prior notice to such Guarantor or to any other Person, any such notice being hereby expressly waived, but in the case of a Lender or a Participant subject to receipt of the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent exercised in its sole discretion, to set-off and to appropriate and to apply any and all deposits (general or special, including, but not limited to, indebtedness evidenced by certificates of deposit, whether matured or unmatured) and any other indebtedness at any time held or owing by the Administrative Agent, such Lender or such Participant or any Affiliate of the Administrative Agent
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or such Lender to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower against and on account of any of the Guarantied Obligations, although such obligations shall be contingent or unmatured. Each Guarantor agrees, to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, that any Participant may exercise rights of setoff or counterclaim and other rights with respect to its participation as fully as if such Participant were a direct creditor of such Guarantor in the amount of such participation.
Section 13. Subordination. Each Guarantor hereby expressly covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Guarantied Parties that all obligations and liabilities of the Borrower to such Guarantor of whatever description, including without limitation, all intercompany receivables of such Guarantor from the Borrower (collectively, the Junior Claims) shall be subordinate and junior in right of payment to all Guarantied Obligations. If an Event of Default shall exist, then no Guarantor shall accept any direct or indirect payment (in cash, property or securities, by setoff or otherwise) from the Borrower on account of or in any manner in respect of any Junior Claim until all of the Guarantied Obligations have been indefeasibly paid in full.
Section 14. Avoidance Provisions. It is the intent of each Guarantor, the Administrative Agent and the other Guarantied Parties that in any Proceeding, such Guarantors maximum obligation hereunder shall equal, but not exceed, the maximum amount which would not otherwise cause the obligations of such Guarantor hereunder (or any other obligations of such Guarantor to the Guarantied Parties) to be avoidable or unenforceable against such Guarantor in such Proceeding as a result of Applicable Law, including without limitation, (a) Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended (the Bankruptcy Code) and (b) any state fraudulent transfer or fraudulent conveyance act or statute applied in such Proceeding, whether by virtue of Section 544 of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise. The Applicable Laws under which the possible avoidance or unenforceability of the obligations of such Guarantor hereunder (or any other obligations of such Guarantor to the Guarantied Parties) shall be determined in any such Proceeding are referred to as the Avoidance Provisions. Accordingly, to the extent that the obligations of any Guarantor hereunder would otherwise be subject to avoidance under the Avoidance Provisions, the maximum Guarantied Obligations for which such Guarantor shall be liable hereunder shall be reduced to that amount which, as of the time any of the Guarantied Obligations are deemed to have been incurred under the Avoidance Provisions, would not cause the obligations of any Guarantor hereunder (or any other obligations of such Guarantor to the Guarantied Parties), to be subject to avoidance under the Avoidance Provisions. This Section is intended solely to preserve the rights of the Administrative Agent and the other Guarantied Parties hereunder to the maximum extent that would not cause the obligations of any Guarantor hereunder to be subject to avoidance under the Avoidance Provisions, and no Guarantor or any other Person shall have any right or claim under this Section as against the Guarantied Parties that would not otherwise be available to such Person under the Avoidance Provisions.
Section 15. Contribution. To the extent that any Guarantor shall be required hereunder to pay any portion of any Guarantied Obligation exceeding the greater of (a) the amount of the value actually received by such Guarantor and its Subsidiaries from the Loans and the other Obligations and (b) the amount such Guarantor would otherwise have paid if such Guarantor had paid the aggregate amount of the Guarantied Obligations (excluding the amount thereof repaid by the Borrower) in the same proportion as such Guarantors net worth on the date enforcement is sought hereunder bears to the aggregate net worth of all the Guarantors on such date, then such Guarantor shall be reimbursed by such other Guarantors for the amount of such excess, pro rata, based on the respective net worth of such other Guarantors on such date.
Section 16. Information. Each Guarantor assumes all responsibility for being and keeping itself informed of the financial condition of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties, and of all other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of any of the Guarantied Obligations and the nature, scope and extent of the risks that such Guarantor assumes and incurs hereunder, and agrees that neither the Administrative Agent nor any other Guarantied Party shall have any duty whatsoever to advise any Guarantor of information regarding such circumstances or risks.
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Section 17. Governing Law. THIS GUARANTY AND ANY CLAIMS, CONTROVERSY, DISPUTE OR CAUSE OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR OTHERWISE) BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF THIS GUARANTY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
Section 18. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.
(a) EACH GUARANTOR, AND EACH OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE OTHER GUARANTIED PARTIES BY ACCEPTING THE BENEFITS HEREOF, ACKNOWLEDGES THAT ANY DISPUTE OR CONTROVERSY BETWEEN SUCH GUARANTOR, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR ANY OF THE OTHER GUARANTIED PARTIES WOULD BE BASED ON DIFFICULT AND COMPLEX ISSUES OF LAW AND FACT AND WOULD RESULT IN DELAY AND EXPENSE TO THE PARTIES. ACCORDINGLY, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, EACH OF THE GUARANTORS, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE OTHER GUARANTIED PARTIES HEREBY WAIVES ITS RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING OF ANY KIND OR NATURE IN ANY COURT OR TRIBUNAL IN WHICH AN ACTION MAY BE COMMENCED BY OR AGAINST ANY PARTY HERETO ARISING OUT OF THIS GUARANTY.
(b) EACH GUARANTOR, AND EACH OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE OTHER GUARANTIED PARTIES BY ACCEPTING THE BENEFITS HEREOF, HEREBY AGREES THAT THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK (BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN), ANY STATE COURT LOCATED IN NEW YORK COUNTY (BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN) AND ANY APPELLATE COURT FROM ANY THEREOF SHALL HAVE JURISDICTION TO HEAR AND DETERMINE ANY CLAIMS OR DISPUTES BETWEEN OR AMONG THE GUARANTORS, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR ANY OF THE OTHER GUARANTIED PARTIES, PERTAINING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY TO THIS GUARANTY. EACH GUARANTOR AND EACH OF THE GUARANTIED PARTIES EXPRESSLY SUBMITS AND CONSENTS IN ADVANCE TO SUCH JURISDICTION IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING COMMENCED IN SUCH COURTS.
(c) EACH PARTY FURTHER WAIVES ANY OBJECTION THAT IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE VENUE OF ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT OR THAT SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING WAS BROUGHT IN AN INCONVENIENT FORUM AND EACH AGREES NOT TO PLEAD OR CLAIM THE SAME.
(d) THE CHOICE OF FORUM SET FORTH IN THIS SECTION SHALL NOT BE DEEMED TO PRECLUDE THE BRINGING OF ANY ACTION BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR ANY OTHER GUARANTIED PARTY OR THE ENFORCEMENT BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR ANY OTHER GUARANTIED PARTY OF ANY JUDGMENT OBTAINED IN SUCH FORUM IN ANY OTHER APPROPRIATE JURISDICTION.
(e) THE FOREGOING WAIVERS HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED BY EACH PARTY WITH THE ADVICE OF COUNSEL AND WITH A FULL UNDERSTANDING OF THE LEGAL CONSEQUENCES THEREOF, AND SHALL SURVIVE THE PAYMENT OF THE LOANS AND ALL OTHER AMOUNTS PAYABLE HEREUNDER OR UNDER THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS, AND THE TERMINATION OF THIS GUARANTY.
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Section 19. Loan Accounts. The Administrative Agent and each Lender may maintain books and accounts setting forth the amounts of principal, interest and other sums paid and payable with respect to the Guarantied Obligations arising under or in connection with the Credit Agreement, and in the case of any dispute relating to any of the outstanding amount, payment or receipt of any of such Guarantied Obligations or otherwise, the entries in such books and accounts shall constitute prima facie evidence of the outstanding amount of such Guarantied Obligations and the amounts paid and payable with respect thereto absent manifest error. The failure of the Administrative Agent or any Lender to maintain such books and accounts shall not in any way relieve or discharge any Guarantor of any of its obligations hereunder.
Section 20. Waiver of Remedies. In exercising their respective rights and remedies, the Administrative Agent and the Guarantied Parties may be selective and no failure or delay by the Administrative Agent or any of the Guarantied Parties in exercising any right shall operate as a waiver of it, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any power or right preclude its other or further exercise or the exercise of any other power or right.
Section 21. Termination. This Guaranty shall remain in full force and effect with respect to each Guarantor until indefeasible payment in full of the Guarantied Obligations and the other Obligations and the termination or cancellation of the Credit Agreement in accordance with its terms.
Section 22. Successors and Assigns. Each reference herein to the Administrative Agent or any other Guarantied Party shall be deemed to include such Persons respective successors and assigns (including, but not limited to, any holder of the Guarantied Obligations) in whose favor the provisions of this Guaranty also shall inure, and each reference herein to each Guarantor shall be deemed to include such Guarantors successors and assigns, upon whom this Guaranty also shall be binding. The Guarantied Parties may, in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Credit Agreement, assign, transfer or sell any Guarantied Obligation, or grant or sell participations in any Guarantied Obligations, to any Person without the consent of, or notice to, any Guarantor and without releasing, discharging or modifying any Guarantors obligations hereunder. Each Guarantor hereby consents to the delivery by the Administrative Agent and any other Guarantied Party to any assignee or Participant of a Lender (or any prospective assignee or Participant of a Lender) of any financial or other information regarding the Borrower or any Guarantor. No Guarantor may assign or transfer its obligations hereunder to any Person without the prior written consent of all Lenders and any such assignment or other transfer to which all of the Lenders have not so consented shall be null and void.
Section 23. JOINT AND SEVERAL OBLIGATIONS. THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE GUARANTORS HEREUNDER SHALL BE JOINT AND SEVERAL, AND ACCORDINGLY, EACH GUARANTOR CONFIRMS THAT IT IS LIABLE FOR THE FULL AMOUNT OF THE GUARANTIED OBLIGATIONS AND ALL OF THE OBLIGATIONS AND LIABILITIES OF EACH OF THE OTHER GUARANTORS HEREUNDER.
Section 24. Amendments. This Guaranty may not be amended except in writing signed by the Administrative Agent and each Guarantor.
Section 25. Payments. All payments to be made by any Guarantor pursuant to this Guaranty shall be made in Dollars, in immediately available funds to the Administrative Agent at its Principal Office, not later than 11:00 a.m. Central time, on the date one Business Day after demand therefor.
Section 26. Notices. All notices, requests and other communications hereunder shall be in writing (including facsimile transmission or similar writing) and shall be given (a) to each Guarantor at its
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address set forth below its signature hereto, (b) to the Administrative Agent or any other Guarantied Party at its respective address for notices provided for in the Credit Agreement, or (c) as to each such party at such other address as such party shall designate in a written notice to the other parties. Each such notice, request or other communication shall be effective (i) if mailed, when received; (ii) if telecopied, when transmitted; or (iii) if hand delivered, when delivered; provided, however, that any notice of a change of address for notices shall not be effective until received.
Section 27. Severability. In case any provision of this Guaranty shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 28. Headings. Section headings used in this Guaranty are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction of this Guaranty.
Section 29. Limitation of Liability. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any other Guarantied Party, nor any Affiliate, officer, director, employee, attorney, or agent of the Administrative Agent or any other Guarantied Party, shall have any liability with respect to, and each Guarantor hereby waives, releases, and agrees not to sue any of them upon, any claim for any special, indirect, incidental, or consequential damages suffered or incurred by a Guarantor in connection with, arising out of, or in any way related to, this Guaranty or any of the other Loan Documents, or any of the transactions contemplated by this Guaranty, the Credit Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents. Each Guarantor hereby waives, releases, and agrees not to sue the Administrative Agent or any other Guarantied Party or any of the Administrative Agents or any other Guarantied Partys Affiliates, officers, directors, employees, attorneys, or agents for punitive damages in respect of any claim in connection with, arising out of, or in any way related to, this Guaranty, the Credit Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, or any of the transactions contemplated thereby.
Section 30. [RESERVED].
Section 31. [RESERVED].
Section 32. Definitions. (a) For the purposes of this Guaranty:
Proceeding means any of the following: (i) a voluntary or involuntary case concerning any Guarantor shall be commenced under the Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended; (ii) a custodian (as defined in such Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable bankruptcy laws) is appointed for, or takes charge of, all or any substantial part of the property of any Guarantor; (iii) any other proceeding under any Applicable Law, domestic or foreign, relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, winding-up or composition for adjustment of debts, whether now or hereafter in effect, is commenced relating to any Guarantor; (iv) any Guarantor is adjudicated insolvent or bankrupt; (v) any order of relief or other order approving any such case or proceeding is entered by a court of competent jurisdiction; (vi) any Guarantor makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors; (vii) any Guarantor shall fail to pay, or shall state that it is unable to pay, or shall be unable to pay, its debts generally as they become due; (viii) any Guarantor shall call a meeting of its creditors with a view to arranging a composition or adjustment of its debts; (ix) any Guarantor shall by any act or failure to act indicate its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any of the foregoing; or (x) any corporate action shall be taken by any Guarantor for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing.
(b) Terms not otherwise defined herein are used herein with the respective meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Guarantor has duly executed and delivered this Guaranty as of the date and year first written above.
[GUARANTOR] | ||
By: | ||
Name: | ||
Title: | ||
Address for Notices for all Guarantors: | ||
c/o PREIT Associates, L.P. 2005 Market Street, Suite 1000 Philadelphia, PA 191023 Attention: Andrew Ioannou Telephone: (215) 875-0700 Telecopy: (215) 546-7311 |
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ANNEX I
FORM OF ACCESSION AGREEMENT
THIS ACCESSION AGREEMENT dated as of _________________ __, executed and delivered by ___________________, a ____________________ (the New Guarantor) in favor of WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, in its capacity as Administrative Agent (the Administrative Agent) for the Lenders under that certain Credit Agreement dated as of August 11, 2020 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement), by and among PREIT Associates, L.P. (PREIT), PREIT-RUBIN, Inc. (PREIT-Rubin), Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (the Parent; together with PREIT and PREIT-Rubin, each individually, a Borrower and collectively, the Borrower), the financial institutions party thereto and their assignees under Section 11.6.(b) thereof (the Lenders) and the Administrative Agent, and the other parties thereto, for its benefit and the benefit of the Lenders (the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, each individually a Guarantied Party and collectively, the Guarantied Parties).
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Credit Agreement, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders have agreed to make available to the Borrower certain financial accommodations on the terms and conditions set forth in the Credit Agreement;
WHEREAS, the New Guarantor is owned or controlled by the Borrower, or is otherwise an Affiliate of the Borrower;
WHEREAS, the Borrower, the New Guarantor and the existing Guarantors, though separate legal entities, are mutually dependent on each other in the conduct of their respective businesses as an integrated operation and have determined it to be in their mutual best interests to obtain financing under the Credit Agreement through their collective efforts;
WHEREAS, the New Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive direct and indirect benefits from the Administrative Agent and the Lenders making such financial accommodations available to the Borrower under the Credit Agreement and, accordingly, the New Guarantor is willing to guarantee the Borrowers obligations to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders on the terms and conditions contained herein; and
WHEREAS, the New Guarantors execution and delivery of this Accession Agreement is a condition to the Administrative Agent and the other Guarantied Parties continuing to make such financial accommodations to the Borrower.
NOW, THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged by the New Guarantor, the New Guarantor agrees as follows:
Section 1. Accession to Guaranty. The New Guarantor hereby agrees that it is a Guarantor under that certain Guaranty dated as of August 11, 2020 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the Guaranty), made by the Guarantors party thereto in favor of the Administrative Agent, for its benefit and the benefit of the other Guarantied Parties and assumes all obligations of a Guarantor thereunder and agrees to be bound thereby, all as if the New Guarantor had been an original signatory to the Guaranty. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the New Guarantor hereby:
(a) irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees the due and punctual payment and performance when due, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, of all Guarantied Obligations (as defined in the Guaranty);
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(b) makes to the Administrative Agent and the other Guarantied Parties as of the date hereof each of the representations and warranties with respect to or in any way relating to itself contained in Section 6. of the Guaranty and agrees to be bound by each of the covenants contained in Section 7. of the Guaranty; and
(c) consents and agrees to each provision set forth in the Guaranty.
Section 2. GOVERNING LAW. THIS ACCESSION AGREEMENT AND ANY CLAIMS, CONTROVERSY, DISPUTE OR CAUSE OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR OTHERWISE) BASED UPON OR ARISING OUT OF THIS ACCESSION AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
Section 3. Definitions. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have their respective defined meanings given them in the Credit Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the New Guarantor has caused this Accession Agreement to be duly executed and delivered under seal by its duly authorized officers as of the date first written above.
[NEW GUARANTOR] | ||
By: | ||
Name: | ||
Title: | ||
(CORPORATE SEAL) | ||
Address for Notices: | ||
c/o PREIT Associates, L.P. 2005 Market Street, Suite 1000 Philadelphia, PA 19103 Attention: Andrew Ioannou Telephone: (215) 875-0700 Telecopy: (215) 546-7311 |
Accepted:
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Administrative Agent | ||
By: | ||
Name: | ||
Title: |
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EXHIBIT C
FORM OF NOTICE OF CONTINUATION
___________________, 20__
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association,
as Administrative Agent
10 South Wacker Drive, 32nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60606
Attention: Brandon Barry
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Reference is made to that certain Credit Agreement dated as of August 11, 2020 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement), by and among PREIT Associates, L.P. (PREIT), PREIT-RUBIN, Inc. (PREIT-RUBIN), Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (the Parent; together with PREIT and PREIT-RUBIN, each individually, a Borrower and collectively, the Borrower), the financial institutions party thereto and their assignees under Section 11.6.(b) thereof (the Lenders), and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent (the Administrative Agent). Capitalized terms used herein, and not otherwise defined herein, have their respective meanings given them in the Credit Agreement.
Pursuant to Section 2.11. of the Credit Agreement, the Borrower hereby requests a Continuation of LIBOR Loan(s) under the Credit Agreement, and in that connection sets forth below the information relating to such Continuation as required by such Section of the Credit Agreement:
1. | The requested date of such Continuation is ____________________, 20__. |
2. | The aggregate principal amount of the LIBOR Loan(s) subject to such Continuation is $____________________ and the portion of such principal amount subject to such Continuation is $_______________________.1 |
3. | The current Interest Period of the LIBOR Loan(s) subject to such Continuation ends on _______________________, 20__. |
4. | The duration of the Interest Period for such LIBOR Loan(s) or portion thereof subject to such Continuation is one month. |
1 | Each Continuation of LIBOR Loans shall be in an aggregate minimum amount of $1,000,000 and integral multiples of $250,000 in excess of that amount. |
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The Borrower hereby certifies to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that as of the date hereof, as of the proposed date of the requested Continuation, and after giving effect to such Continuation, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
If notice of the requested Continuation was given previously by telephone, this Notice of Continuation is to be considered written confirmation of such telephone notice required by Section 2.11. of the Credit Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has duly executed and delivered this Notice of Continuation as of the date first written above.
PREIT ASSOCIATES, L.P. | ||||
By: | Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, its general partner | |||
By: | Name: | |||
Title: | ||||
PREIT-RUBIN, INC. | ||||
By: |
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Name: | ||||
Title: | ||||
PENNSYLVANIA REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST | ||||
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Name: | ||||
Title: |
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EXHIBIT D
FORM OF NOTICE OF CONVERSION
_________________, 20__
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association,
as Administrative Agent
10 South Wacker Drive, 32nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60606
Attention: Brandon Barry
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Reference is made to that certain Credit Agreement dated as of August 11, 2020 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement), by and among PREIT Associates, L.P. (PREIT), PREIT-Rubin, Inc. (PREIT-Rubin), Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (the Parent; together with PREIT and PREIT-RUBIN, each individually, a Borrower and collectively, the Borrower), the financial institutions party thereto and their assignees under Section 11.6.(b) thereof (the Lenders), and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent (the Administrative Agent). Capitalized terms used herein, and not otherwise defined herein, have their respective meanings given them in the Credit Agreement.
Pursuant to Section 2.12. of the Credit Agreement, the Borrower hereby requests a Conversion of a Loan of one Type into a Loan of another Type under the Credit Agreement, and in that connection sets forth below the information relating to such Conversion as required by such Section of the Credit Agreement:
1. | The requested date of such Conversion is , 20__. |
2. | The Type of the Loan(s) to be Converted pursuant hereto is currently: |
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☐ Base Rate Loans
☐ LIBOR Loans
3. | The aggregate principal amount of the Type of Loans subject to the requested Conversion is $______________________ and the portion of such principal amount subject to such Conversion is $_______________________.1 |
4. | The amount of such Type of Loans to be so Converted is to be converted into a Loan of the following Type: |
1 | Each Conversion of Base Rate Loans into LIBOR Loans shall be in an aggregate minimum amount of $1,000,000 and integral multiples of $250,000 in excess of that amount. |
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☐ Base Rate Loans
☐ LIBOR Loan, with an initial Interest Period for a duration of one month.
The Borrower hereby certifies to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that as of the date hereof, as of the proposed date of the requested Conversion, and after giving effect to such Conversion, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing (provided the certification under this clause (a) shall not be made in connection with a Conversion of a Loan into a Base Rate Loan), and (b) the representations and warranties made or deemed made by the Borrower and each other Loan Party in the Loan Documents to which any of them is a party, are and shall be true and correct with the same force and effect as if made on and as of such date except to the extent that such representations and warranties expressly relate solely to an earlier date (in which case such representations and warranties shall have been true and correct on and as of such earlier date) and except for changes in factual circumstances not prohibited under the Loan Documents.
If notice of the requested Conversion was given previously by telephone, this Notice of Conversion is to be considered the written confirmation of such telephone notice required by Section 2.12. of the Credit Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has duly executed and delivered this Notice of Conversion as of the date first written above.
PREIT ASSOCIATES, L.P. | ||||
By: | Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, its general partner | |||
By: | Name: | |||
Title: | ||||
PREIT-RUBIN, INC. | ||||
By: |
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Name: | ||||
Title: | ||||
PENNSYLVANIA REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST | ||||
By: |
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Name: | ||||
Title: |
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EXHIBIT E
FORM OF NOTICE OF BORROWING
__________________________, 20__
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association,
as Administrative Agent
10 South Wacker Drive, 32nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60606
Attention: Brandon Barry
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Reference is made to that certain Credit Agreement dated as of August 11, 2020 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement), by and among PREIT Associates, L.P. (PREIT), PREIT-RUBIN, Inc. (PREIT-RUBIN), Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (the Parent; together with PREIT and PREIT-RUBIN, each individually, a Borrower and collectively, the Borrower), the financial institutions party thereto and their assignees under Section 11.6.(b) thereof (the Lenders), and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent (the Administrative Agent). Capitalized terms used herein, and not otherwise defined herein, have their respective meanings given them in the Credit Agreement.
1. | Pursuant to Section 2.2(b) of the Credit Agreement, the Borrower hereby requests that the Term Loan Lenders make Term Loans to the Borrower in an aggregate amount equal to $___________________________. |
2. | The Borrower requests that the Term Loans be made available to the Borrower on ______________________, 20__.1 |
3. | The Borrower hereby requests that such Loans be of the following Type: |
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☐ Base Rate Loans
☐ LIBOR Loan, with an initial Interest Period for a duration of one month.
The Borrower hereby certifies to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that as of the date hereof, as of the date of the making of the requested Loans, and after making such Loans, (a) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; and (b) the representations and warranties of the Borrower and the Guarantors contained in the Credit Agreement and in the other Loan Documents to which any of them is a party, are and shall be true and correct with the same force and effect as if made on and as of such date except to the extent that such representations and warranties expressly relate solely to an earlier date (in which case such representations and warranties shall have been true and correct on and as of such earlier date) and except for changes in factual circumstances not prohibited under the Loan Documents. In
1 | Request for Term Loans must be made no later than 11:00 a.m. Central time at least 3 Business Days prior to the anticipated borrowing date. |
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addition, the Borrower certifies to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that all conditions to the making of the requested Loans contained in Article V. of the Credit Agreement will have been satisfied at the time such Loans are made.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has duly executed and delivered this Notice of Borrowing as of the date first written above.
PREIT ASSOCIATES, L.P. | ||||
By: | Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, its general partner | |||
By: | Name: | |||
Title: | ||||
PREIT-RUBIN, INC. | ||||
By: |
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Name: | ||||
Title: | ||||
PENNSYLVANIA REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST | ||||
By: |
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Name: | ||||
Title: |
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EXHIBIT F
FORM OF DISBURSEMENT INSTRUCTION AGREEMENT
Borrower: PREIT Associates, L.P., PREIT-RUBIN, Inc. and Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust |
Administrative Agent: Wells Fargo Bank, National Association |
Loan: Loan Number _________________ made pursuant to that certain Credit Agreement dated as of August 11, 2020 by and among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders party thereto (as amended from time to time, the Credit Agreement) |
Effective Date: INSERT DATE |
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☐New This is the first Disbursement Instruction Agreement submitted in connection with the Loan.
☐Replace Previous Agreement This is a replacement Disbursement Instruction Agreement. All prior instructions submitted in connection with this Loan are cancelled as of the Effective Date set forth above. |
This Agreement must be signed by the Borrower and is used for the following purposes:
(1) | to designate an individual or individuals with authority to request disbursements of Loan proceeds, whether at the time of Loan closing/origination or thereafter; |
(2) | to designate an individual or individuals with authority to request disbursements of funds from Restricted Accounts (as defined in the Terms and Conditions attached to this Agreement), if applicable; and |
(3) | to provide Administrative Agent with specific instructions for wiring or transferring funds on Borrowers behalf. |
Any of the disbursements, wires or transfers described above are referred to herein as a Disbursement.
Specific dollar amounts for Disbursements must be provided to Administrative Agent at the time of the applicable Disbursement in the form of a signed closing statement, an email instruction or other written communication, or telephonic request pursuant to 2.2(b) of the Credit Agreement (each, a Disbursement Request) from an applicable Authorized Representative (as defined in the Terms and Conditions attached to this Agreement).
A new Disbursement Instruction Agreement must be completed and signed by the Borrower if (i) all or any portion of a Disbursement is to be transferred to an account or an entity not described in this Agreement or (ii) Borrower wishes to add or remove any Authorized Representatives.
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See the Additional Terms and Conditions attached hereto for additional information and for definitions of certain capitalized terms used in this Agreement.
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Disbursements of Loan Proceeds Subsequent to Loan Closing/Origination | ||||
Subsequent Disbursement Authorizers: Administrative Agent is authorized to accept one or more Disbursement Requests from any of the individuals named below (each, a Subsequent Disbursement Authorizer) to disburse Loan proceeds after the date of the Loan origination/closing and to initiate Disbursements in connection therewith (each, a Subsequent Disbursement): | ||||
Individuals Name | Title | |||
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2. | ||||
3. | ||||
Describe Restrictions, if any, on the authority of the Subsequent Disbursement Authorizers (dollar amount limits, wire/deposit destinations, etc.):
DESCRIBE APPLICABLE RESTRICTIONS OR INDICATE N/A
If there are no restrictions described here, any Subsequent Disbursement Authorizer may submit a Disbursement Request for all available Loan proceeds. |
DELETE FOLLOWING SECTION IF NO SUBSEQUENT WIRE TRANSFERS ANTICIPATED
Permitted Wire Transfers: Disbursement Requests for Subsequent Disbursements to be made by wire transfer must specify the amount and applicable Receiving Party. Each Receiving Party included in any such Disbursement Request must be listed below. Administrative Agent is authorized to use the wire instructions that have been provided directly to Administrative Agent by the Receiving Party or Borrower and attached as the Subsequent Disbursement Exhibit. All wire instructions must be in the format specified on the Subsequent Disbursement Exhibit. | ||
Names of Receiving Parties for Subsequent Disbursements (may include as many parties as needed; wire instructions for each Receiving Party must be attached as the Subsequent Disbursement Exhibit) | ||
1. | ||
2. | ||
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DELETE FOLLOWING SECTION IF NO SUBSEQUENT DEPOSITS INTO WFB ACCOUNTS ANTICIPATED
Direct Deposit: Disbursement Requests for Subsequent Disbursements to be deposited into an account at Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. must specify the amount and applicable account. Each account included in any such Disbursement Request must be listed below. |
Name on Deposit Account: |
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Deposit Account Number: |
Further Credit Information/Instructions: |
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Borrower acknowledges that all of the information in this Agreement is correct and agrees to the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Additional Terms and Conditions on the following page.
PREIT ASSOCIATES, L.P. | ||||||
By: | Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, its general partner | |||||
By: | ||||||
Name: | ||||||
Title: |
PREIT-RUBIN, INC. | ||||||
By: | ||||||
Name: | ||||||
Title: |
PENNSYLVANIA REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST | ||||||
By: | ||||||
Name: | ||||||
Title: |
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Additional Terms and Conditions to the Disbursement Instruction Agreement
Definitions. The following capitalized terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
Authorized Representative means any or all of the Closing Disbursement Authorizers, Subsequent Disbursement Authorizers and Restricted Account Disbursement Authorizers, as applicable.
Receiving Bank means the financial institution where a Receiving Party maintains its account.
Receiving Party means the ultimate recipient of funds pursuant to a Disbursement Request.
Restricted Account means an account at Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. associated with the Loan to which Borrowers access is restricted.
Capitalized terms used in these Additional Terms and Conditions to Disbursement Instruction Agreement and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the body of the Agreement.
Disbursement Requests. Except as expressly provided in the Credit Agreement, Administrative Agent must receive Disbursement Requests in writing. Disbursement Requests will only be accepted from the applicable Authorized Representatives designated in the Disbursement Instruction Agreement. Disbursement Requests will be processed subject to satisfactory completion of Administrative Agents customer verification procedures. Administrative Agent is only responsible for making a good faith effort to execute each Disbursement Request and may use agents of its choice to execute Disbursement Requests. Funds disbursed pursuant to a Disbursement Request may be transmitted directly to the Receiving Bank, or indirectly to the Receiving Bank through another bank, government agency, or other third party that Administrative Agent considers to be reasonable. Administrative Agent will, in its sole discretion, determine the funds transfer system and the means by which each Disbursement will be made. Administrative Agent may delay or refuse to accept a Disbursement Request if the Disbursement would: (i) violate the terms of this Agreement; (ii) require use of a bank unacceptable to Administrative Agent or Lenders or prohibited by government authority; (iii) cause Administrative Agent or Lenders to violate any Federal Reserve or other regulatory risk control program or guideline; or (iv) otherwise cause Administrative Agent or Lenders to violate any applicable law or regulation.
Limitation of Liability. Administrative Agent and Lenders shall not be liable to Borrower or any other parties for: (i) errors, acts or failures to act of others, including other entities, banks, communications carriers or clearinghouses, through which Borrowers requested Disbursements may be made or information received or transmitted, and no such entity shall be deemed an agent of the Administrative Agent or any Lender; (ii) any loss, liability or delay caused by fires, earthquakes, wars, civil disturbances, power surges or failures, acts of government, labor disputes, failures in communications networks, legal constraints or other events beyond Administrative Agents or any Lenders control; or (iii) any special, consequential, indirect or punitive damages, whether or not (A) any claim for these damages is based on tort or contract or (B) Administrative Agent, any Lender or Borrower knew or should have known the likelihood of these damages in any situation. Neither Administrative Agent nor any Lender makes any representations or warranties other than those expressly made in this Agreement. IN NO EVENT WILL ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR ANY LENDER BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES ARISING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY IF A DISBURSEMENT REQUEST IS EXECUTED BY ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT IN GOOD FAITH AN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT.
Reliance on Information Provided. Administrative Agent is authorized to rely on the information provided by Borrower or any Authorized Representative in or in accordance with this Agreement when executing a Disbursement Request until Administrative Agent has received a new Agreement signed by
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Borrower. Borrower agrees to be bound by any Disbursement Request: (i) authorized or transmitted by Borrower; or (ii) made in Borrowers name and accepted by Administrative Agent in good faith and in compliance with this Agreement, even if not properly authorized by Borrower. Administrative Agent may rely solely (i) on the account number of the Receiving Party, rather than the Receiving Partys name, and (ii) on the bank routing number of the Receiving Bank, rather than the Receiving Banks name, in executing a Disbursement Request. Administrative Agent is not obligated or required in any way to take any actions to detect errors in information provided by Borrower or an Authorized Representative. If Administrative Agent takes any actions in an attempt to detect errors in the transmission or content of transfers or requests or takes any actions in an attempt to detect unauthorized Disbursement Requests, Borrower agrees that, no matter how many times Administrative Agent takes these actions, Administrative Agent will not in any situation be liable for failing to take or correctly perform these actions in the future, and such actions shall not become any part of the Disbursement procedures authorized herein, in the Loan Documents, or in any agreement between Administrative Agent and Borrower.
International Disbursements. A Disbursement Request expressed in US Dollars will be sent in US Dollars, even if the Receiving Party or Receiving Bank is located outside the United States. Administrative Agent will not execute Disbursement Requests expressed in foreign currency unless permitted by the Credit Agreement.
Errors. Borrower agrees to notify Administrative Agent of any errors in the Disbursement of any funds or of any unauthorized or improperly authorized Disbursement Requests within fourteen (14) days after Administrative Agents confirmation to Borrower of such Disbursement.
Finality of Disbursement Requests. Disbursement Requests will be final and will not be subject to stop payment or recall; provided that Administrative Agent may, at Borrowers request, make an effort to effect a stop payment or recall but will incur no liability whatsoever for its failure or inability to do so.
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SUBSEQUENT DISBURSEMENT EXHIBIT
WIRE INSTRUCTIONS
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
TO ATTACH WIRE INSTRUCTIONS FROM RECEIVING PARTIES
All wire instructions must contain the following information:
Transfer/Deposit Funds to (Receiving Party Account Name) |
Receiving Party Deposit Account Number |
Receiving Bank Name, City and State |
Receiving Bank Routing (ABA) Number |
Further identifying information, if applicable (title escrow number, borrower name, loan number, etc.) |
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EXHIBIT G
FORM OF TERM LOAN NOTE
$[______________________] | [______], 2020 |
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, PREIT ASSOCIATES, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (PREIT), PREIT-RUBIN, INC., a Pennsylvania corporation (PREIT-RUBIN), and PENNSYLVANIA REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST, a Pennsylvania business trust (the Parent; together with PREIT and PREIT-RUBIN, each individually, a Borrower and collectively, the Borrower) jointly and severally hereby unconditionally promise to pay to the order of [________________________] (together with its successor and assigns, Lender), in care of WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Administrative Agent (together with its successors and assigns, Administrative Agent), to its address at 608 Second Avenue, 11th Floor, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402, or at such other address as may be specified by the Administrative Agent, to Borrower, the principal sum of [________________________] DOLLARS ($[_____________]), or such lesser amount as may be the then outstanding and unpaid balance of all Term Loans made by Lender to Borrower pursuant to, and in accordance with the terms of, the Credit Agreement (as defined below).
Borrower further agrees to pay interest at said office, in like money, on the unpaid principal amount owing hereunder from time to time on the dates and at the rates and at the times specified in the Credit Agreement.
This Term Loan Note (this Note) is one of the Notes referred to in that certain Credit Agreement, dated as August 11, 2020 (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement), by and among Borrower, the financial institutions party thereto and their assignees under Section 11.6.(b) thereof, Administrative Agent and the other parties thereto, and is subject to, and entitled to, all provisions and benefits thereof.
Capitalized terms used herein and not defined herein shall have the respective meanings given to such terms in the Credit Agreement.
The Credit Agreement, among other things, (a) provides for the making of Term Loans by Lender to Borrower in the aggregate principal Dollar amount first above mentioned, (b) permits the prepayment of the Term Loans by Borrower subject to certain terms and conditions and (c) provides for the acceleration of the Term Loans upon the occurrence of certain specified events.
Borrower hereby waives presentment, demand, protest and notice of any kind. No failure to exercise, and no delay in exercising any rights hereunder on the part of the holder hereof shall operate as a waiver of such rights.
Time is of the essence for this Note.
THIS NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH,
THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTS EXECUTED, AND TO BE FULLY PERFORMED, IN SUCH STATE.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed and delivered this Term Note under seal as of the date written above.
BORROWER | ||||
PREIT ASSOCIATES, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership | ||||
By: | Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust,a Pennsylvania business trust its general partner | |||
By: | ||||
Name: | ||||
Title: |
PREIT-RUBIN, INC., | ||
a Pennsylvania corporation | ||
By: | ||
Name: | ||
Title: |
PENNSYLVANIA REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST, | ||
a Pennsylvania business trust | ||
By: | ||
Name: | ||
Title: |
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EXHIBIT H-1
FORM OF U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
(For Foreign Lenders That Are Not Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)
Reference is hereby made to the Credit Agreement dated as of August 11, 2020 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement), by and among PREIT ASSOCIATES, L.P. (PREIT), PREIT-RUBIN, INC. (PREIT-Rubin) and PENNSYLVANIA REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST (the Parent; together with PREIT and PREIT-Rubin, each individually, a Borrower and collectively, the Borrower), each of the financial institutions initially a signatory thereto together with their assignees under Section 11.6.(b). thereof (the Lenders), and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as the Administrative Agent (the Administrative Agent).
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.10. of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole record and beneficial owner of the Loan(s) (as well as any Note(s) evidencing such Loan(s)) in respect of which it is providing this certificate, (ii) it is not a bank within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iii) it is not a ten percent shareholder of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code and (iv) it is not a controlled foreign corporation related to the Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.
The undersigned has furnished the Administrative Agent and the Borrower with a certificate of its non-U.S. Person status on IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable. By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided on this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished the Borrower and the Administrative Agent with a properly completed and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to the undersigned, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such payments.
Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
[NAME OF LENDER] | ||||
By: | ||||
Name: | ||||
Title: |
Date: _________________, 20__
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EXHIBIT H-2
FORM OF U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
(For Foreign Participants That Are Not Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)
Reference is hereby made to the Credit Agreement dated as of August 11, 2020 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement), by and among PREIT ASSOCIATES, L.P. (PREIT), PREIT-RUBIN, INC. (PREIT-Rubin) and PENNSYLVANIA REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST (the Parent; together with PREIT and PREIT-Rubin, each individually, a Borrower and collectively, the Borrower), each of the financial institutions initially a signatory thereto together with their assignees under Section 11.6.(b). thereof (the Lenders), and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as the Administrative Agent (the Administrative Agent).
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.10. of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole record and beneficial owner of the participation in respect of which it is providing this certificate, (ii) it is not a bank within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iii) it is not a ten percent shareholder of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code, and (iv) it is not a controlled foreign corporation related to the Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.
The undersigned has furnished its participating Lender with a certificate of its non-U.S. Person status on IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable. By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided on this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform such Lender in writing, and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished such Lender with a properly completed and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to the undersigned, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such payments.
Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
[NAME OF PARTICIPANT] | ||||
By: | ||||
Name: | ||||
Title: |
Date: _________________, 20__
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EXHIBIT H-3
FORM OF U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
(For Foreign Participants That Are Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)
Reference is hereby made to the Credit Agreement dated as of August 11, 2020 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement), by and among PREIT ASSOCIATES, L.P. (PREIT), PREIT-RUBIN, INC. (PREIT-Rubin) and PENNSYLVANIA REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST (the Parent; together with PREIT and PREIT-Rubin, each individually, a Borrower and collectively, the Borrower), each of the financial institutions initially a signatory thereto together with their assignees under Section 11.6.(b). thereof (the Lenders), and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as the Administrative Agent (the Administrative Agent).
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.10. of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole record owner of the participation in respect of which it is providing this certificate, (ii) its direct or indirect partners/members are the sole beneficial owners of such participation, (iii) with respect such participation, neither the undersigned nor any of its direct or indirect partners/members is a bank extending credit pursuant to a loan agreement entered into in the ordinary course of its trade or business within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iv) none of its direct or indirect partners/members is a ten percent shareholder of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code and (v) none of its direct or indirect partners/members is a controlled foreign corporation related to the Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.
The undersigned has furnished its participating Lender with IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by one of the following forms from each of its partners/members that is claiming the portfolio interest exemption: (i) an IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, or (ii) an IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by an IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, from each of such partners/members beneficial owners that is claiming the portfolio interest exemption. By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided on this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform such Lender and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished such Lender with a properly completed and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to the undersigned, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such payments.
Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
[NAME OF PARTICIPANT] | ||||
By: | ||||
Name: | ||||
Title: |
Date: _________________, 20__
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EXHIBIT H-4
FORM OF U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
(For Foreign Lenders That Are Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)
Reference is hereby made to the Credit Agreement dated as of August 11, 2020 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement), by and among PREIT ASSOCIATES, L.P. (PREIT), PREIT-RUBIN, INC. (PREIT-Rubin) and PENNSYLVANIA REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST (the Parent; together with PREIT and PREIT-Rubin, each individually, a Borrower and collectively, the Borrower), each of the financial institutions initially a signatory thereto together with their assignees under Section 11.6.(b). thereof (the Lenders), and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as the Administrative Agent (the Administrative Agent).
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.10. of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole record owner of the Loan(s) (as well as any Note(s) evidencing such Loan(s)) in respect of which it is providing this certificate, (ii) its direct or indirect partners/members are the sole beneficial owners of such Loan(s) (as well as any Note(s) evidencing such Loan(s)), (iii) with respect to the extension of credit pursuant to this Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, neither the undersigned nor any of its direct or indirect partners/members is a bank extending credit pursuant to a loan agreement entered into in the ordinary course of its trade or business within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iv) none of its direct or indirect partners/members is a ten percent shareholder of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code and (v) none of its direct or indirect partners/members is a controlled foreign corporation related to the Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.
The undersigned has furnished the Administrative Agent and the Borrower with IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by one of the following forms from each of its partners/members that is claiming the portfolio interest exemption: (i) an IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, or (ii) an IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by an IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, from each of such partners/members beneficial owners that is claiming the portfolio interest exemption. By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided on this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished the Borrower and the Administrative Agent with a properly completed and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to the undersigned, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such payments.
Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
[NAME OF LENDER] | ||||
By: | ||||
Name: | ||||
Title: |
Date: _________________, 20__
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