Response to Notice of Commitment Increase Request, dated as of January 17, 2025, by and among PGIM Private Credit Fund, as borrower, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, as administrative agent, and the lenders party thereto
Exhibit 10.1
RESPONSE TO NOTICE OF COMMITMENT INCREASE REQUEST
January 17, 2025
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
277 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10172
Attention: Anthony Tirelli
Phone: 646 ###-###-####
State Street Bank and Trust Company
One Congress Street – Floor 23
Boston, Massachusetts, 02114 USA
Re: | PGIM PRIVATE CREDIT FUND (the “Company”) |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We refer to (a) that certain Senior Secured Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of October 30, 2023 (as amended by that certain First Amendment to Senior Secured Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of June 28, 2024 and as further amended, supplemented, amended and restated, or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”; capitalized terms used in this Response Letter (as defined below) and not otherwise defined have the meanings for such terms set forth in the Credit Agreement), by and among the Company, the Lenders and Issuing Banks from time to time party thereto and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, as Administrative Agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”); and (b) the Notice of Commitment Increase Request, dated as of January 17, 2025, provided by the Company to the Administrative Agent (the “Notice”).
By returning to us an executed counterpart hereof, each of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, in its capacity as the Administrative Agent and a Swingline Lender under the Credit Agreement, and State Street Bank and Trust Company, in its capacity as a Swingline Lender under the Credit Agreement, indicates its agreement to a Commitment Increase Date of January 17, 2025, notwithstanding the requirement in Section 2.08(e)(i) of the Credit Agreement that the Commitment Increase Date be no earlier than three Business Days after delivery of notice by the Company.
Pursuant to the Notice and Section 2.08(e) of the Credit Agreement, we deliver this response (this “Response Letter”) to confirm that each of the Company and Natixis, New York Branch (the “Increasing Lender”) agrees that the Increasing Lender is hereby increasing its aggregate Multicurrency Commitment to equal $50,000,000. The Increasing Lender represents and warrants that it has full power and authority, and has taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver this Response Letter and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and under the Credit Agreement.
This Response Letter shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. This Response Letter 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 Response Letter by telecopy, email, or other electronic method of transmission (e.g. PDF) shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Response Letter. This Response Letter shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York. The provisions of Section 9.09(b) (Submission to Jurisdiction), Section 9.09(c) (Waiver of Venue) and Section 9.09(d) (Service of Process) of the Credit Agreement are incorporated into this Response Letter as if fully set forth herein, mutatis mutandis. The parties hereto hereby agree that this Response Letter is an Incremental Assumption Agreement and a Loan Document.
EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS RESPONSE LETTER OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY AND WHETHER AT LAW OR IN EQUITY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS RESPONSE LETTER BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS PARAGRAPH.
[Signature pages follow]
Very truly yours, | ||
NATIXIS, NEW YORK BRANCH, | ||
as Increasing Lender | ||
By: | /s/ Kelley Herbert | |
Name: Kelley Herbert | ||
Title: Managing Director | ||
By: | /s/ Soukeyna Dlouf | |
Name: Soukeyna Dlouf | ||
Title: Vice President |
PGIM PRIVATE CREDIT FUND | ||
By: | /s/ Scott E. Benjamin | |
Name: Scott E. Benjamin | ||
Title: Vice President |
ACKNOWLEDGED, ACCEPTED | ||
AND AGREED: | ||
SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION, | ||
as Administrative Agent and as a Swingline Lender | ||
By: | /s/ Shane Klein | |
Name: Shane Klein | ||
Title: Managing Director | ||
State Street Bank and Trust | ||
Company, as a Swingline Lender | ||
By: | /s/ Stephen Lynch | |
Name: Stephen Lynch | ||
Title: Vice President |