Exhibit 10.1 - Amendment to the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of July 28, 2020, among the Company, the various financial institutions party thereto and Nordea Bank ABP, New York Branch as administrative agent

Exhibit 10.1

Execution Version

AMENDMENT TO CREDIT AGREEMENT

This AMENDMENT TO THE AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT (this “Amendment”), dated as of July 28, 2020, is among ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD., a Liberian corporation (the “Borrower”), the various financial institutions party hereto (collectively, the “Lender Parties”) and Nordea Bank ABP, New York Branch, as administrative agent (the “Administrative Agent”) for the Lender Parties.

PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS

(1)            The Borrower, the various financial institutions party thereto and the Administrative Agent are parties to that certain Credit Agreement, as amended and restated on October 12, 2017, and as further amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time prior to the date hereof (such Credit Agreement as in effect immediately prior to giving effect to this Amendment, the “Existing Agreement” and as amended hereby, the “Amended Agreement”); and

(2)            The Borrower, the Lender Parties and the Administrative Agent have agreed to amend the Existing Agreement as hereinafter set forth herein.

NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:

SECTION 1. Amendments to the Existing Agreement. The Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties agree that the Existing Agreement is, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 2, hereby amended on the Amendment Effective Date as follows:

(a)            The definition of “Waiver Period” in Section 1.1 of the Existing Agreement shall be amended and restated in its entirety as follows:

“Waiver Period” means the period commencing on the Waiver Effective Date and ending on December 31, 2021.

(b)            Section 1.1 of the Existing Agreement shall be amended by adding the following defined terms in appropriate alphabetical order:

“Adjustable Amount” means, as of any time of determination, $500,000,000 minus the product of (i) 25% and (ii) the aggregate amount of New Capital at such time; provided the Adjustable Amount shall not be less than $350,000,000; provided, further, if, at any time after the First Waiver Extension Date, the aggregate amount of New Capital is equal to or greater than $500,000,000, then the Adjustable Amount shall be $350,000,000.

“Available Proceeds” means, without duplication, the aggregate amount of any Excess Proceeds (as defined in the Secured Indenture or the Unsecured Indenture) that remain unapplied after compliance with the "Asset Sale Offer" provisions of Section 4.09(c) of each of the Secured Indenture and the Unsecured Indenture (and any similar asset sale offer provisions of any other documentation governing Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries).

“First Waiver Extension Date” means July 28, 2020.

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“New Capital” means the gross amount of proceeds from any capital (whether in the form of debt, equity or otherwise) raised by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries after the First Waiver Extension Date; provided that proceeds of any capital raise which are used substantially concurrently for (i) the purchase price of a new Vessel or (ii) repayment of existing Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness (x) maturing within one year of the date of such repayment or (y) under any revolving credit agreement the repayment of which is not accompanied by a corresponding permanent reduction in the related revolving credit commitments), in each case, shall not constitute New Capital.

“Secured Indenture” means that certain Indenture dated as of May 19, 2020 among the Borrower, certain subsidiaries of the Borrower, and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee and security agent, as in effect on the First Waiver Extension Date.

“Unsecured Indenture” means that certain Indenture dated as of June 9, 2020 among the Borrower, RCI Holdings LLC, and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee, as in effect on the First Waiver Extension Date.

(c)           The text that appears following the first semicolon in clause (c) of Section 6.1.1 of the Existing Agreement shall be amended and restated in its entirety as follows:

; it being understood and agreed, for the avoidance of doubt, that no such certificate shall be required to be delivered with respect to any Fiscal Quarter or Fiscal Year ending on June 30, 2020, September 30, 2020, December 31, 2020, March 31, 2021, June 30, 2021, September 30, 2021 or December 31, 2021;

(d)           Section 6.1.1 of the Existing Agreement shall be further amended by adding the following new clauses (i) and (j) after clause (h) thereof:

(i)            within ten Business Days after the end of each month during the Waiver Period, a certificate, executed by the chief financial officer, the treasurer or the corporate controller of the Borrower, showing (x) a breakdown of customer deposits between valid cruises, cancelled cruises and future cruise certificates and (y) a reconciliation of the Borrower’s consolidated customer deposit balance, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit I;

(j)            within fifteen Business Days after the end of each fiscal quarter during the Waiver Period, updated liquidity projections, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit J, covering the next twelve month period;

(e)            Section 6.2.9 of the Existing Agreement shall be amended and restated in its entirety as follows:

SECTION 6.2.9       Minimum Liquidity. The Borrower will not allow the aggregate amount of unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as determined in accordance with GAAP to be less than the Adjustable Amount as of (i) the last day of any calendar month during the Waiver Period, or (ii) if the Borrower is not in compliance with the requirements of this Section 6.2.9 as of the last day of any calendar month during the Waiver Period,

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the date the certificate required by Section 6.1.1(h) with respect to such month is delivered to the Administrative Agent.

(f)            Section 6.2.10 of the Existing Agreement shall be amended by adding the following text after clause (b) thereof:

(c)            The Borrower will not, and will not cause or permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, make any Restricted Investment (as defined in the Secured Indenture or the Unsecured Indenture) during the Waiver Period that is not permitted by the Secured Indenture and the Unsecured Indenture (assuming the Secured Indenture and the Unsecured Indenture are in effect at the time of the making of such Restricted Investment, regardless of whether such indentures are actually in effect or have been amended after the First Waiver Extension Date); provided, however, that, subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Borrower or any Subsidiary may make any Investment (as defined in the Secured Indenture or the Unsecured Indenture) pursuant to clause (a) or clause (c) of the definition of “Permitted Investments” (as set forth in the Secured Indenture or the Unsecured Indenture) without giving effect to any proviso contained therein.

(d)            If at any time during the Waiver Period and after the First Waiver Extension Date the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries has Available Proceeds, then the Borrower shall, within fifteen Business Days of the date upon which such Available Proceeds are determined, apply 50% of such Available Proceeds to repay all or any portion of the Advances or any other Indebtedness that is pari passu in right of payment to the Obligations, in each case, subject to the terms of the documentation governing such Indebtedness; provided that any repayment of Indebtedness under any revolving credit agreement pursuant to this clause (d) shall be accompanied by a corresponding permanent reduction in the related revolving credit commitments.

(g)            The Existing Agreement shall be amended by adding Exhibit A and Exhibit B hereto as Exhibit I and Exhibit J, respectively, thereto.

(h)            Item 5.9(b) of Schedule II to the Existing Agreement shall be amended and restated in its entirety in the form of Schedule I hereto.

SECTION 2.  Conditions of Amendment Effectiveness. This Amendment shall become effective as of the date on which each of the following conditions has been satisfied (or waived) in accordance with the terms hereof (such date, the “Amendment Effective Date”):

(a)            The Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts of this Amendment executed by the Borrower and the Required Lenders or, as to any of the Lenders, advice satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that such Lender has executed this Amendment.

(b)            The Administrative Agent shall have received, for the account of each Lender who has delivered a counterpart to this Amendment, an amendment fee paid by or on behalf of the Borrower in an amount equal to 0.15% of the Revolving Credit Commitment of such Lender.

SECTION 3. Representation and Warranty of the Borrower. To induce the Lender Parties to enter into this Amendment, the Borrower represents and warrants that, as of the Amendment Effective Date:

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(a)            The representations and warranties contained in Article V (excluding, however, those contained in the last sentence of Section 5.6) of the Amended Agreement are true and correct in all material respects except for those representations and warranties that are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, which shall be true and correct, and

(b)            No Default, Prepayment Event or event which (with notice or lapse of time or both) would become a Prepayment Event has occurred and is continuing.

SECTION 4. Reference to and Effect on the Existing Agreement. On and after the effectiveness of this Amendment, each reference in the Existing Agreement to “this Agreement”, “hereunder”, “hereof” or words of like import referring to the Existing Agreement shall mean and be a reference to the Amended Agreement. The Existing Agreement, as specifically amended by this Amendment, is and shall continue to be in full force and effect and is hereby in all respects ratified and confirmed. The execution, delivery and effectiveness of this Amendment shall not, except as expressly provided herein, operate as a waiver of any right, power or remedy of any Lender Party or the Administrative Agent under the Existing Agreement, nor constitute a waiver of any provision of the Existing Agreement. This Amendment shall be deemed to constitute a Loan Document.

SECTION 5. Costs and Expenses. The Borrower agrees to pay on demand all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses of the Administrative Agent in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery and administration, modification and amendment of this Amendment and the other documents to be delivered hereunder (including the reasonable and documented fees and expenses of one counsel for the Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties with respect hereto and thereto; it being understood that the foregoing shall be limited to the reasonable and documented fees and expenses of Shearman & Sterling LLP) in accordance with the terms of the Amended Agreement.

SECTION 6. Execution in Counterparts. This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Amendment by telecopier or other electronic transmission shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Amendment. The words “execute,” “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” and words of like import in or related to any document to be signed in connection with this Amendment and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be deemed to include electronic signatures, the electronic matching of assignment terms and contract formations on electronic platforms approved by the Administrative Agent, or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act; provided that notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Administrative Agent is under no obligation to agree to accept electronic signatures in any form or in any format unless expressly agreed to by the Administrative Agent pursuant to procedures approved by it.

SECTION 7. Governing Law. This Amendment shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

SECTION 8. Incorporation of Terms. The provisions of Sections 11.13, 11.17 and 11.18 of the Existing Agreement shall be incorporated into this Amendment as if set out in full in this Amendment and as if references in those sections to “this Agreement” were references to this Amendment.

SECTION 9.   Amendment, Modification and Waiver. This Amendment may not be amended, modified or waived except as permitted by Section 11.1 of the Amended Agreement.

SECTION 10. Defined Terms. Capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this Amendment shall have the same meanings as specified in the Amended Agreement.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first above written.

Schedule I

Item 5.9(b): Vessels

[Schedule I]

[Schedule I]