Credit Agreement among RPM International Inc., RPM New Horizons Netherlands B.V., the Lenders party thereto and PNC Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent, dated February 21, 2020

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EX-10.1 2 d890660dex101.htm EX-10.1 EX-10.1

Exhibit 10.1

Execution Version

Domestic Term Loan CUSIP: 74968VAC0

Foreign Term Loan CUSIP: 74968VAD8

$300,000,000 DOMESTIC TERM LOAN FACILITY

$100,000,000 FOREIGN TERM LOAN FACILITY

CREDIT AGREEMENT

by and among

RPM INTERNATIONAL INC.

RPM NEW HORIZONS NETHERLANDS B.V.,

as the Borrowers

and

THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO

and

PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as Administrative Agent

and

PNC CAPITAL MARKETS LLC,

as Lead Arranger and Sole Bookrunner

Dated as of February 21, 2020


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

              Page  
1.      

CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

     1  
  1.1    Certain Definitions      1  
  1.2    Construction      23  
  1.3    Divisions of LLCs      23  
  1.4    Accounting Principles; Changes in GAAP      24  
  1.5    LIBOR Notification      24  
2.  

TERM LOAN FACILITY

     25  
  2.1    Term Loan Commitments      25  
  2.2    Nature of Lenders’ Obligations with Respect to Term Loans      25  
  2.3    Repayment of Term Loans      25  
  2.4    Loan Requests      25  
  2.5    [Reserved]      26  
  2.6    Notes      26  
  2.7    Use of Proceeds      26  
  2.8    [Reserved]      26  
  2.9    [Reserved]      26  
  2.10    [Reserved]      26  
  2.11    Defaulting Lenders      26  
3.  

[RESERVED]

     26  
4.  

INTEREST RATES

     26  
  4.1    Interest Rate Options      26  
  4.2    Interest Periods      27  
  4.3    Interest After Default      28  
  4.4    Rates Unascertainable; Illegality; Increased Costs; Deposits Not Available      28  
  4.5    Selection of Interest Rate Options      29  
  4.6    [Reserved]      29  
  4.7    [Reserved]      30  
  4.8    [Reserved]      30  
  4.9    Successor Euro-Rate Index      30  
5.  

PAYMENTS

     32  
  5.1    Payments      32  
  5.2    Pro Rata Treatment of Lenders      33  
  5.3    Sharing of Payments by Lenders      33  
  5.4    Presumptions by Administrative Agent      34  
  5.5    Interest Payment Dates      34  
  5.6    Voluntary Prepayments      34  


   5.7    Judgment Currency      36  
   5.8    Increased Costs      37  
   5.9    Taxes      38  
   5.10    Indemnity      42  
6.        REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES      43  
   6.1    Representations and Warranties      43  
7.    CONDITIONS OF LENDING      48  
   7.1    First Loans      48  
8.    COVENANTS      49  
   8.1    Affirmative Covenants      49  
   8.2    Negative Covenants      52  
   8.3    Reporting Requirements      55  
9.    DEFAULT      57  
   9.1    Events of Default      57  
   9.2    Consequences of Event of Default      59  
10.    THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT      61  
   10.1    Appointment and Authority      61  
   10.2    Rights as a Lender      61  
   10.3    Exculpatory Provisions      61  
   10.4    Reliance by Administrative Agent      62  
   10.5    Delegation of Duties      62  
   10.6    Resignation of Administrative Agent      62  
   10.7    Removal of Administrative Agent      63  
   10.8    Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders      63  
   10.9    No Other Duties, etc.      64  
   10.10    [Reserved]      64  
   10.11    Administrative Agent’s Fee      64  
   10.12    No Reliance on Administrative Agent’s Customer Identification Program      64  
11.    GUARANTY      64  
   11.1    Guaranty by the Company      64  
   11.2    Additional Undertaking      64  
   11.3    Guaranty Unconditional      65  
   11.4    Company Obligations to Remain in Effect; Restoration      66  
   11.5    Waiver of Acceptance, etc.      66  
   11.6    Subrogation      66  
   11.7    Effect of Stay      66  

 

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12.    MISCELLANEOUS      66  
   12.1    Modifications, Amendments or Waivers      66  
   12.2    No Implied Waivers; Cumulative Remedies      67  
        12.3    Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver      68  
   12.4    Holidays      70  
   12.5    Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communication      70  
   12.6    Severability      71  
   12.7    Duration; Survival      71  
   12.8    Successors and Assigns      71  
   12.9    Confidentiality      75  
   12.10    Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness      76  
   12.11    CHOICE OF LAW; SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; WAIVER OF VENUE; SERVICE OF PROCESS; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL      76  
   12.12    USA Patriot Act Notice      78  
   12.13    Borrower Agent      78  
   12.14    Foreign Borrower      78  
   12.15    Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs      79  
   12.16    No Fiduciary or Agency Relationship      80  
   12.17    Certain ERISA Matters      80  
   12.18    Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-in of Affected Financial Institution      81  

 

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LIST OF SCHEDULES AND EXHIBITS

 

SCHEDULES          
SCHEDULE 1.1(A)    -    PRICING GRID
SCHEDULE 1.1(B)    -    COMMITMENTS OF LENDERS AND ADDRESSES FOR NOTICES
SCHEDULE 6.1.2    -    SUBSIDIARIES
SCHEDULE 8.2.4    -    AFFILIATE TRANSACTIONS
EXHIBITS          
EXHIBIT 1.1(A)    -    ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT
EXHIBIT 1.1(N)(1)    -    DOMESTIC TERM LOAN NOTE
EXHIBIT 1.1(N)(2)    -    FOREIGN TERM LOAN NOTE
EXHIBIT 2.4.1    -    LOAN REQUEST
EXHIBIT 5.9.7(A)    -    U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE (For Foreign Lenders That Are Not Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)
EXHIBIT 5.9.7(B)    -    U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE (For Foreign Participants That Are Not Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)
EXHIBIT 5.9.7(C)    -    U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE (For Foreign Participants That Are Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)
EXHIBIT 5.9.7(D)    -    U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE (For Foreign Lenders That Are Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)
EXHIBIT 8.3.3    -    QUARTERLY COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

 

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CREDIT AGREEMENT

THIS CREDIT AGREEMENT (as hereafter amended, the “Agreement”) is dated as of February 21, 2020 and is made by and among RPM INTERNATIONAL INC., a Delaware corporation (together with its successors and assigns, to the extent permitted under this Agreement, the “Company” or the “Domestic Borrower”) and RPM NEW HORIZONS NETHERLANDS B.V., a corporation incorporated under the laws of the Netherlands (together with its successors and assigns, to the extent permitted under this Agreement, “RPM Netherlands or the “Foreign Borrower”; and together with the Company, referred to herein as a “Borrower” and collectively referred to as the “Borrowers”), the LENDERS (as hereinafter defined) from time to time a party hereto, PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, in its capacity as administrative agent for the Lenders under this Agreement (hereinafter referred to in such capacity as the “Administrative Agent”), PNC Capital Markets LLC, as the lead arranger and the sole bookrunner.

The Borrowers have requested the Lenders to provide a domestic term loan facility to the Domestic Borrower in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $300,000,000 and a foreign term loan facility to the Foreign Borrower in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $100,000,000. In consideration of their mutual covenants and agreements hereinafter set forth and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:

1. CERTAIN DEFINITIONS

1.1 Certain Definitions. In addition to words and terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context hereof clearly requires otherwise:

Acceptable Insurer shall mean an insurance company that (i) is a Captive Insurance Company, (ii) has an A.M. Best rating of “A-” or better and being in a financial size category of X or larger (as such category is defined as of the date hereof) or (iii) is otherwise acceptable to the Required Lenders.

Administrative Agent shall mean PNC Bank, National Association, and its successors and assigns, in its capacity as administrative agent hereunder.

Administrative Agent’s Fee shall have the meaning specified in Section 10.11 [Administrative Agent’s Fee].

Administrative Agent’s Letter shall have the meaning specified in Section 10.11 [Administrative Agent’s Fee].

Affected Financial Institution means (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.

Affiliate as to any Person shall mean any other Person (i) which directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with such Person, (ii) which beneficially owns or holds 5% or more of any class of the voting or other equity interests of such Person, or (iii) 5% or more of any class of voting interests or other equity interests of which is beneficially owned or held, directly or indirectly, by such Person. For purposes of this definition, “control” of a Person means the power, directly or indirectly, to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether by contract or otherwise.


Agreement shall have the meaning specified in introductory paragraph.

Anti-Corruption Laws means the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, the UK Bribery Act 2010, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and all other laws, rules, and regulations of any jurisdiction that are applicable to the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries concerning or relating to bribery or corruption.

Anti-Terrorism Laws shall mean any Laws relating to terrorism, trade sanctions programs and embargoes, import/export licensing, money laundering or bribery, and any regulation, order, or directive promulgated, issued or enforced pursuant to such Laws, all as amended, supplemented or replaced from time to time.

Applicable Margin shall mean, as applicable:

(A) the percentage spread to be added to the Base Rate applicable to Term Loans under the Base Rate Option based on the Debt Rating then in effect according to the pricing grid on Schedule 1.1(A) below the heading “Base Rate Spread”, or

(B) the percentage spread to be added to the Euro-Rate applicable to Term Loans under the Euro-Rate Option based on the Debt Rating then in effect according to the pricing grid on Schedule 1.1(A) below the heading “Euro-Rate Spread”.

Any change to the Debt Rating of the Company will immediately change the Applicable Margin as set forth above, effective on the date of such change in the Debt Rating.

Approved Fund shall mean any fund that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or investing in bank loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of business and that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.

Arranger shall mean PNC Capital Markets LLC.

Assignment and Assumption Agreement shall mean an assignment and assumption agreement entered into by a Lender and an assignee permitted under Section 12.8 [Successors and Assigns], in substantially the form of Exhibit 1.1(A).

Authorized Officer shall mean, with respect to any Borrower or the Company, as applicable, the Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Financial Officer, Controller, Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer of such Borrower or such other individuals, designated by written notice to the Administrative Agent from such Borrower, authorized to execute notices, reports and other documents on behalf of such Borrower required hereunder. The Borrowers may amend such list of individuals from time to time by giving written notice of such amendment to the Administrative Agent.

 

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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, regulation, rule 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).

Base Rate shall mean, for any day, a fluctuating per annum rate of interest equal to the highest of (a) the Overnight Bank Funding Rate, plus fifty basis points (0.5%), and (b) the Prime Rate, and (c) the Daily Euro-Rate, plus one hundred basis points (1.0%). Any change in the Base Rate (or any component thereof) shall take effect at the opening of business on the day such change occurs.

Base Rate Option shall mean the option of the Borrowers to have Loans bear interest at the rate and under the terms set forth in Section 4.1.1.1(i) [Term Loan Base Rate Option].

Beneficial Owner shall mean each of the following: (a) each individual, if any, who, directly or indirectly, owns 25% or more of the Foreign Borrower’s equity ownership interests; and (b) a single individual with significant responsibility to control, manage, or direct the Foreign Borrower.

Beneficial Ownership Regulation shall mean 31 C.F.R. § 1010.230.

Benefited Creditors shall mean, with respect to the Company’s obligations pursuant to Section 11 [Guaranty], collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Arranger, and the Lenders, and the respective successors and assigns of each of the foregoing.

Benefit Plan shall mean any of (a) an “employee benefit plan” (as defined in ERISA) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (b) a “plan” as defined in Section 4975 of the Code or (c) any Person whose assets include (for purposes of ERISA Section 3(42) or otherwise for purposes of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) the assets of any such “employee benefit plan” or “plan”.

Borrowers shall have the meaning specified in introductory paragraph.

Borrowing Date shall mean, with respect to any Loan, the date for the making thereof or the renewal or conversion thereof at or to the same or a different Interest Rate Option, which shall be a Business Day.

 

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Borrowing Tranche shall mean specified portions of Loans outstanding as follows: (i) any Loans to which a Euro-Rate Option applies which become subject to the same Interest Rate Option under the same Loan Request by the applicable Borrower and which have the same Interest Period shall constitute one Borrowing Tranche, and (ii) all Loans to which a Base Rate Option applies shall constitute one Borrowing Tranche.

Business Day shall mean any day other than a Saturday or Sunday or a legal holiday on which commercial banks are authorized or required to be closed for business in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and if the applicable Business Day relates to any Loan to which the Euro-Rate Option applies, such day must also be a day on which dealings are carried on in the London interbank market.

Capital Lease Obligations shall mean, as to any Person, the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under a lease of (or other agreement conveying the right to use) real and/or personal property to the extent such obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as a capital lease on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP and, for purposes of this Agreement, the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof, determined in accordance with GAAP.

Captive Insurance Company shall mean any of First Continental Services Company or RSIF International Limited, each of which are wholly-owned (directly or indirectly) Subsidiaries of the Company, or any other captive insurance company that is a wholly-owned (directly or indirectly) Consolidated Subsidiary of the Company.

Cash Equivalents shall mean, at any time, any of the following investments which are not subject to a Lien in favor of any Person: (i) Indebtedness with a maturity of one year or less issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States or any agency or instrumentality thereof (provided that the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged in support thereof), (ii) certificates of deposit or acceptances with a maturity of one year or less of any financial institution that is a member of the Federal Reserve System having combined capital and surplus and undivided profits of not less than $500,000,000, (iii) commercial paper with a maturity of 270 days or less issued by a corporation (except an Affiliate of the Borrowers) organized under the laws of any state of the United States or the District of Columbia and rated at least A-1 by Standard & Poor’s or at least P-1 by Moody’s Investors Services, Inc., (iv) repurchase agreements with institutions described in clause (ii) with respect to investments described in clause (i), (v) money market mutual funds or cash management trusts rated in the highest rating by Standard & Poor’s or Moody’s Investors Services, Inc. (and not rated other than in the highest rating by Standard & Poor’s or Moody’s Investors Services, Inc.) or investing solely in investments described in clauses (i) through (iv) above and (vi) in the case of Foreign Subsidiaries, investments made locally of a type comparable to those described in clause (i) through (v) of this definition.

CERCLA shall mean the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended from time to time, and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

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Certificate of Beneficial Ownership shall mean a certificate in form and substance acceptable to the Administrative Agent (as amended or modified by Administrative Agent from time to time in its sole discretion) regarding beneficial ownership required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation and certifying, among other things, the Beneficial Owners of the Foreign Borrower.

Change in Law shall mean the occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any of the following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any Law, (b) any change in any Law or in the administration, interpretation, implementation or application thereof by any Official Body or (c) the making or issuance of any request, rule, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of Law) by any Official Body; provided that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, regulations, guidelines, interpretations or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith (whether or not having the force of Law) and (y) all requests, rules, regulations, guidelines, interpretations 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 (whether or not having the force of Law), in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a Change in Law regardless of the date enacted, adopted, issued, promulgated or implemented.

CIP Regulations shall have the meaning specified in Section 10.12 [No Reliance on Administrative Agent’s Customer Identification Program].

Closing Date shall mean February 21, 2020.

Code shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time, and any successor statute of similar import, and the rules and regulations thereunder, as from time to time in effect.

Commitment shall mean as to any Lender the aggregate of its Term Loan Commitment, and Commitments shall mean the aggregate of the Term Loan Commitments of all of the Lenders.

Company shall have the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph.

Compliance Certificate shall have the meaning specified in Section 8.3.3 [Certificate of the Company].

Connection Income Taxes shall mean Other Connection Taxes that are imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated) or that are franchise Taxes or branch profits Taxes.

Consolidated Subsidiaries shall mean the Subsidiaries of the Company.

Covered Party shall have the meaning assigned to it in Section 12.15 [Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs].

 

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Covered Person shall mean (a) the Borrowers and each of the Borrowers’ Subsidiaries, (b) each Person that, directly or indirectly, is in control of a Person described in clause (a) above, and (c) the respective directors, officers, employees or agents of each Person described in (a) above. For purposes of this definition, control of a Person shall mean the direct or indirect (x) ownership of, or power to vote, 25% or more of the issued and outstanding equity interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors of such Person or other Persons performing similar functions for such Person, or (y) power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person whether by ownership of equity interests, contract or otherwise.

Daily LIBOR Rate shall mean, for any day, the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent as the Published Rate, as adjusted for any additional costs pursuant to Section 5.8.5 [Additional Reserve Requirements]. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Daily LIBOR Rate as determined above would be less than zero (0.00), such rate shall be deemed to be zero (0.00) for purposes of this Agreement.

Debt Rating shall mean the Company’s debt ratings accorded to the Company’s senior unsecured long-term debt by Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s and Fitch, which ratings shall be used to determine the margin set forth on the pricing grid on Schedule 1.1(A). If the Company is split-rated by the rating agencies, then Debt Rating shall mean the highest rating assigned by the aforementioned rating agencies; provided that, in the case that the ratings assigned by the rating agencies differ by two or more rating tiers, then the pricing set forth on Schedule 1.1(A) shall be based upon the tier which is one level below the tier corresponding to the highest rating assigned by the rating agencies. If at any time the debt ratings accorded to the Company’s senior unsecured long-term debt is rated by only two of the aforementioned credit rating agencies, then the margin set forth on the pricing grid on Schedule 1.1(A) will be determined by the highest of the ratings except that in the case that the ratings differ by two or more tiers, then the margin set forth on the pricing grid on Schedule 1.1(A) will be based upon the tier one level below the tier corresponding to the higher rating.

Defaulting Lender shall mean any Lender that (a) has failed, within two Business Days of the date required to be funded or paid, to (i) fund any portion of its Loans, (ii) [reserved], or (iii) pay over to the Administrative Agent or any Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder, unless, in the case of clause (i) above, such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent in writing that such failure is the result of such Lender’s good faith determination that a condition precedent to funding (specifically identified and including the particular default, if any) has not been satisfied, (b) has notified the Company or the Administrative Agent in writing, or has made a public statement to the effect, that it does not intend or expect to comply with any of its funding obligations under this Agreement (unless such writing or public statement indicates that such position is based on such Lender’s good faith determination that a condition precedent (specifically identified and including the particular default, if any) to funding a loan under this Agreement cannot be satisfied) or generally under other agreements in which it commits to extend credit, (c) has failed, within two Business Days after request by the Administrative Agent, acting in good faith, to provide a certification in writing from an authorized officer of such Lender that it will comply with its obligations (and is financially able to meet such obligations) to fund prospective Loans, provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon the Administrative Agent’s

 

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and the Company’s receipt of such certification in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Company, (d) has become the subject of a Bankruptcy Event, (e) has failed at any time to comply with the provisions of Section 5.3 [Sharing of the Payments by Lenders] with respect to purchasing participations from the other Lenders, whereby such Lender’s share of any payment received, whether by setoff or otherwise, is in excess of its Ratable Share of such payments due and payable to all of the Lenders, or (f) becomes subject to a Bail-in Action.

As used in this definition and in Section 2.11 [Defaulting Lenders], the term “Bankruptcy Event” means, with respect to any Person, such Person or such Person’s direct or indirect parent company being deemed insolvent or becoming the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, or having had a receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with the reorganization or liquidation of its business appointed for it, or, in the good faith determination of the Administrative Agent, has taken any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence in, any such proceeding or appointment, provided that a Bankruptcy Event shall not result solely by virtue of any ownership interest, or the acquisition of any ownership interest, in such Person or such Person’s direct or indirect parent company by an Official Body or instrumentality thereof if, and only if, such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Person with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Person (or such Official Body or instrumentality) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made by such Person.

Any determination by the Administrative Agent that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender under any one or more of clauses (a) through (f) above shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender upon delivery of written notice of such determination to the Borrowers and each Lender promptly following such a determination.

Delaware LLC shall mean any limited liability company organized or formed under the laws of the State of Delaware.

Delaware Divided LLC shall mean any Delaware LLC which has been formed upon consummation of a Delaware LLC Division.

Delaware LLC Division shall mean the statutory division of any Delaware LLC into two or more Delaware LLCs pursuant to Section 18-217 of the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act.

Disclosure Documents shall mean the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2019 and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the quarterly periods ended August 31, 2019 and November 30, 2019, in each case as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Dollar, Dollars, U.S. Dollars and the symbol $ shall mean lawful money of the United States of America.

 

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Domestic Borrower shall have the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph.

Domestic Term Loan shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.1.1 [Domestic Term Loan Commitments] and shall mean collectively all of the outstanding Domestic Term Loan advances.

Domestic Term Loan Commitment shall mean, as to any Lender at any time, the amount initially set forth opposite its name on Schedule 1.1(B) in the column labeled “Amount of Commitment for Domestic Term Loan”, as such Commitment is thereafter assigned or modified and Domestic Term Loan Commitments shall mean the aggregate Domestic Term Loan Commitments of all of the Lenders.

EBITDA shall mean for any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters, determined on a consolidated basis for the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, (i) the sum of: (A) net income of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries (calculated before provision for income taxes, Interest Expense, extraordinary items, non-recurring gains or losses in connection with asset dispositions, income (loss) attributable to equity in affiliates, all amounts attributable to depreciation and amortization) for such period, (B) non-recurring fees and expenses related to the acquisition of all or substantially all of the assets or capital stock (including by merger or amalgamation) of another Person (or, in the case of assets, of a business unit of a Person) or to any dispositions, investments and debt or equity issuances (whether or not successful) during such period, not to exceed $25,000,000 in the aggregate for such period of four consecutive fiscal quarters, (C) costs, charges, expenses attributable to the undertaking and/or implementation of cost savings initiatives, operating expense reductions and other restructuring or integration costs, not to exceed in the aggregate 12.5% of EBITDA for such period, (D) non-cash charges incurred in such period, (E) professional service expenses related to the Map 2020 Program in an amount not in excess of the amount of such expenses paid or accrued prior to the Revolving Credit Agreement Closing Date plus up to $25,000,000 of additional expenses incurred after the Revolving Credit Agreement Closing Date, and (F) expenses related to the refinancing of the credit facilities of the Borrowers pursuant to the Revolving Credit Agreement and future amendments of the Revolving Credit Agreement, minus (ii) non-cash gains for such period. For the purpose of calculating EBITDA for any period, if during such period the Company or any Subsidiary shall have made an acquisition or a disposition on or after the Revolving Credit Agreement Closing Date, EBITDA for such period shall be calculated after giving pro forma effect to such acquisition or disposition, as if such acquisition or disposition, as the case may be, occurred on the first day of such period. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, the definition of “EBITDA” and all related adjustments and addbacks under this Agreement shall align fully and completely to the definition of “EBITDA” under the Revolving Credit Agreement, as in effect as of the Closing Date.

EEA Financial Institution shall mean (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.

 

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EEA Member Country shall mean any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

EEA Resolution Authority shall mean 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.

Environmental Laws shall mean all applicable federal, state, local, tribal, territorial and foreign Laws (including common law), constitutions, statutes, treaties, regulations, rules, ordinances and codes and any consent decrees, settlement agreements, judgments, orders, directives, policies or programs issued by or entered into with an Official Body pertaining or relating to: (i) pollution or pollution control; (ii) protection of human health from exposure to regulated substances; (iii) protection of the environment and/or natural resources; (iv) employee safety in the workplace; (v) the presence, use, management, generation, manufacture, processing, extraction, treatment, recycling, refining, reclamation, labeling, packaging, sale, transport, storage, collection, distribution, disposal or release or threat of release of regulated substances; (vi) the presence of contamination; (vii) the protection of endangered or threatened species; and (viii) the protection of environmentally sensitive areas.

Environmental Liabilities shall mean all liabilities in connection with or relating to the business, assets, presently or previously owned or leased property, activities (including, without limitation, off-site disposal) or operations of the Company and each Consolidated Subsidiary, whether vested or unvested, contingent or fixed, actual or potential, known or unknown, which arise under or relate to matters covered by Environmental Laws.

ERISA shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time, and any successor statute of similar import, and the rules and regulations thereunder, as from time to time in effect.

ERISA Event shall mean (a) with respect to a Pension Plan, a reportable event under Section 4043 of ERISA as to which event (after taking into account notice waivers provided for in the regulations) there is a duty to give notice to the PBGC; (b) a withdrawal by any Borrower or any member of the ERISA Group from a Pension 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) a complete or partial withdrawal by any Borrower or any member of the ERISA Group from a Multiemployer Plan, notification that a Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization, or occurrence of an event described in Section 4041A(a) of ERISA that results in the termination of a Multiemployer Plan; (d) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate a Pension Plan, the treatment of a Pension Plan amendment as a termination under Section 4041(e) of ERISA, or the commencement of proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Pension Plan; (e) an event or condition which constitutes grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan; or (f) the imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon any Borrower or any member of the ERISA Group.

 

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ERISA Group shall mean, at any time, the Borrowers and all members of a controlled group of corporations and all trades or businesses (whether or not incorporated) under common control and all other entities which, together with the Borrowers, are treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code or Section 4001(b)(1) of ERISA.

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.

Euro-Rate shall mean, with respect to the Loans comprising any Borrowing Tranche to which the Euro-Rate Option applies for any Interest Period, the interest rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent by dividing (the resulting quotient rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest 1/100th of 1% per annum) (i) the rate which appears on the Bloomberg Page BBAM1 (or on such other substitute Bloomberg page that displays rates at which U.S. Dollar deposits are offered by leading banks in the London interbank deposit market), rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest 1/100th of 1% per annum (with .005% being rounded up), or the rate which is quoted by another source selected by the Administrative Agent as an authorized information vendor for the purpose of displaying rates at which U.S. Dollar deposits are offered by leading banks in the London interbank deposit market (for the purposes of this definitions, an “Alternate Source”), at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two (2) Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period as the London interbank offered rate for U.S. Dollars for an amount comparable to such Borrowing Tranche and having a borrowing date and a maturity comparable to such Interest Period (or if there shall at any time, for any reason, no longer exist a Bloomberg Page BBAM1 (or any substitute page) or any Alternate Source, a comparable replacement rate determined by the Administrative Agent at such time (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error)), by (ii) a number equal to 1.00 minus the LIBOR Reserve Percentage. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the LIBOR Rate as determined under any method above would be less than zero (0.00), such rate shall be deemed to be zero (0.00) for purposes of this Agreement.

Euro-Rate Option shall mean the option of the Borrowers to have Loans bear interest at the rate and under the terms set forth in Section 4.1.1.1(ii) [Term Loan Euro-Rate Option].

Event of Default shall mean any of the events described in Section 9.1 [Events of Default] and referred to therein as an “Event of Default.”

Excluded Taxes shall mean 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, (i) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (a) 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 (b) that are Other Connection Taxes, (ii) in the case of a Lender, U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan or Commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (a) such Lender acquires such interest in such Loan or Commitment (other than

 

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pursuant to an assignment request by the Borrowers under Section 5.6.2 [Replacement of a Lender]) or (b) such Lender changes its lending office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 5.9.7 [Status of Lenders], amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lender’s assignor immediately before such Lender became a party hereto or to such Lender immediately before it changed its lending office, (iii) Taxes attributable to such Recipient’s failure to comply with Section 5.9.7 [Status of Lenders], and (iv) any U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA, (except to the extent imposed due to the failure of the Borrowers to provide documentation or information to the IRS).

Executive Order No. 13224 shall mean the Executive Order No. 13224 on Terrorist Financing, effective September 24, 2001, as the same has been, or shall hereafter be, renewed, extended, amended or replaced.

FATCA shall mean Sections 1471 through 1474 of the 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 and any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code.

Federal Funds Effective Rate for any day shall mean the rate per annum (based on a year of 360 days and actual days elapsed and rounded upward to the nearest 1/100 of 1%, with .005% being rounded up) announced by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or any successor) on such day as being the weighted average of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions arranged by federal funds brokers on the previous trading day, as computed and announced by such Federal Reserve Bank (or any successor) in substantially the same manner as such Federal Reserve Bank computes and announces the weighted average it refers to as the “Federal Funds Effective Rate” as of the date of this Agreement; provided, if such Federal Reserve Bank (or its successor) does not announce such rate on any day, the “Federal Funds Effective Rate” for such day shall be the Federal Funds Effective Rate for the last day on which such rate was announced.

Fitch shall mean Fitch Investors Service Inc. and its successors.

Foreign Borrower shall have the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph.

Foreign Lender shall mean any Lender that is organized under the Laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which any Borrower is resident for tax purposes. For purposes of this definition, the United States of America, each State thereof and the District of Columbia shall be deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction.

Foreign Term Loan hall have the meaning specified in Section 2.1.2 [Foreign Term Loan Commitments] and shall mean collectively all of the outstanding Foreign Term Loan advances.

Foreign Term Loan Commitment shall mean, as to any Lender at any time, the amount initially set forth opposite its name on Schedule 1.1(B) in the column labeled “Amount of Commitment for Foreign Term Loan”, as such Commitment is thereafter assigned or modified, and Foreign Term Loan Commitments shall mean the aggregate Foreign Term Loan Commitments of all of the Lenders.

 

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GAAP shall mean generally accepted accounting principles as are in effect from time to time, subject to the provisions of Section 1.4 [Accounting Principles; Changes in GAAP], and applied on a consistent basis both as to classification of items and amounts.

Guaranty of any Person shall mean any obligation of such Person guaranteeing or in effect guaranteeing any liability or obligation of any other Person in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including any agreement to indemnify or hold harmless any other Person, any performance bond or other suretyship arrangement and any other form of assurance against loss, except endorsement of negotiable or other instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business.

Hazardous Substances shall mean any toxic, radioactive, caustic or otherwise hazardous substance, including petroleum, its derivatives, by-products and other hydrocarbons, or any substance having constituted elements displaying any of the foregoing characteristics, regulated under Environmental Laws.

Indebtedness shall mean, as to any Person at any time (determined without duplication): (i) indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money (whether by loan or the issuance and sale of debt securities) or for the deferred purchase or acquisition price of property or services, other than accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business; (ii) obligations of such Person in respect of letters of credit or similar instruments issued or accepted by banks and other financial institutions for the account of such Person (whether or not such obligations are contingent); (iii) Capital Lease Obligations of such Person; (iv) indebtedness of others of the type described in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above secured by a Lien on the property of such Person, whether or not the respective obligation so secured has been assumed by such Person; and (v) Guaranties of such Person of indebtedness of others of the type described in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above.

Indemnified Taxes shall mean (i) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Borrower under any Loan Document, and (ii) to the extent not otherwise described in the preceding clause (i), Other Taxes.

Indemnitee shall have the meaning specified in Section 12.3.2 [Indemnification by the Borrowers].

Information shall mean all information received from the Company or any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries relating to the Borrowers or any of such Consolidated Subsidiaries or any of their respective businesses, other than any such information that is available to the Administrative Agent or any Lender on a non-confidential basis prior to disclosure by the Company or any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries, provided that, in the case of information received from the Company or any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries after the date of this Agreement, such information is clearly identified at the time of delivery as confidential.

 

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Insolvency Proceeding shall mean, with respect to any Person, (a) a case, action or proceeding with respect to such Person (i) before any court or any other Official Body under any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar Law now or hereafter in effect, or (ii) for the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator, conservator (or similar official) of any Borrower or otherwise relating to the liquidation, dissolution, winding-up or relief of such Person, or (b) any general assignment for the benefit of creditors, composition, marshaling of assets for creditors, or other, similar arrangement in respect of such Person’s creditors generally or any substantial portion of its creditors; undertaken under any Law.

Interest Expense shall mean, for any period, the sum (determined without duplication) of the aggregate amount of interest accruing during such period on Indebtedness of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries (on a consolidated basis), including the interest portion of payments under Capital Lease Obligations and any capitalized interest, and excluding amortization of debt discount and expense and any non-cash interest expense associated with accretive type debt instruments.

Interest Period shall mean the period of time selected by the Borrowers in connection with (and to apply to) any election permitted hereunder by the Borrowers to have Term Loans bear interest under the Euro-Rate Option. Subject to the last sentence of this definition, such period shall be one (1), two (2), three (3), or six (6) months, and to the extent offered by all Lenders, twelve (12) months. Such Interest Period shall commence on the effective date of such Interest Rate Option, which shall be (i) the Borrowing Date if the Borrowers are requesting new Loans, or (ii) the date of renewal of or conversion to the Euro-Rate Option if the Borrowers are renewing or converting to the Euro-Rate Option applicable to outstanding Loans. Notwithstanding the second sentence hereof: (A) any Interest Period which would otherwise end on a date which is not a Business Day shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such Business Day falls in the next calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day, and (B) the Borrowers shall not select, convert to or renew an Interest Period for any portion of the Loans that would end after the Maturity Date.

Interest Rate Option shall mean any Euro-Rate Option or Base Rate Option.

Investments shall have the meaning assigned to it in Section 8.2.2 [Loans and Investments].

IRS shall mean the United States Internal Revenue Service.

Law shall mean any law(s) (including common law), constitution, statute, treaty, regulation, rule, ordinance, opinion, issued guidance, release, ruling, order, executive order, injunction, writ, decree, bond, judgment, authorization or approval, lien or award of or any settlement arrangement, by agreement, consent or otherwise, with any Official Body, foreign or domestic.

 

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Lenders shall mean the financial institutions named on Schedule 1.1(B) and their respective successors and assigns as permitted hereunder, each of which is referred to herein as a Lender. For the purpose of any Loan Document which provides for the granting of a security interest or other Lien to the Lenders or to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders as security for the Obligations, “Lenders” shall include any Affiliate of a Lender to which such Obligation is owed.

Lien shall mean any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, lien, security interest, charge or other encumbrance or security arrangement of any nature whatsoever, whether voluntarily or involuntarily given, including any conditional sale or title retention arrangement, and any assignment, deposit arrangement or lease intended as, or having the effect of, security and any filed financing statement or other notice of any of the foregoing (whether or not a lien or other encumbrance is created or exists at the time of the filing).

Liquid Investments shall mean (i) certificates of deposit maturing within 90 days of the acquisition thereof denominated in Dollars and issued by (A) a Lender (or its parent) or (B) a bank or trust company having combined capital and surplus of at least $500,000,000 and which has (or which is a Subsidiary of a bank holding company which has) publicly traded debt securities rated A- or higher by Standard & Poor’s or A3 or higher by Moody’s; (ii) obligations issued or guaranteed by the United States of America, with maturities not more than one year after the date of issue; (iii) commercial paper with maturities of not more than 90 days and a published rating of not less than A-1 from Standard & Poor’s or P-1 from Moody’s; and (iv) municipal and/or corporate bonds rated A or higher from Standard & Poor’s or higher from Moody’s.

Loan Documents shall mean this Agreement, the Administrative Agent’s Letter, the Notes, and any other instruments, certificates or documents delivered in connection herewith or therewith.

Loan Request shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.4.1 [Loan Requests].

Loans shall mean collectively and Loan shall mean separately all Term Loans or any Term Loan.

Material Adverse Effect shall mean (i) a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, properties, assets, liabilities (including, without limitation, tax and ERISA liabilities and Environmental Liabilities), business, operations, capitalization, shareholders’ equity, or franchises of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; or (ii) a material adverse effect on the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under this Agreement.

Maturity Date shall mean February 21, 2023.

Moody’s shall mean Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and its successors.

Month, with respect to an Interest Period shall mean the interval between the days in consecutive calendar months numerically corresponding to the first day of such Interest Period. If any Interest Period begins on a day of a calendar month for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the month in which such Interest Period is to end, the final month of such Interest Period shall be deemed to end on the last Business Day of such final month.

 

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Multiemployer Plan shall mean any employee pension benefit plan which is a “multiemployer plan” within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA and to which any Borrower or any member of the ERISA Group is then making or accruing an obligation to make contributions or, within the preceding five plan years, has made or had an obligation to make such contributions.

Net Leverage Ratio shall mean ratio of (i) consolidated total Indebtedness of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries minus all Unencumbered Cash in excess of $50,000,000, to (ii) EBITDA, calculated as of the end of each fiscal quarter for the four fiscal quarters then ended.

Net Worth of the Company shall mean as of any date of determination total stockholders’ equity of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of such date determined and consolidated in accordance with GAAP.

Non-Consenting Lender shall have the meaning specified in Section 12.1.4 [Modifications, Amendments or Waivers].

Notes shall mean, collectively, and Note shall mean separately, the promissory notes in the form of Exhibit 1.1(N)(1) evidencing the Domestic Term Loans and in the form of Exhibit 1.1(N)(2) evidencing the Foreign Term Loans.

NYFRB shall mean the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Obligation shall mean any obligation or liability of any of the Borrowers, howsoever created, arising or evidenced, whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, now or hereafter existing, or due or to become due, under or in connection with this Agreement, the Notes, the Administrative Agent’s Letter or any other Loan Document whether to the Administrative Agent, any of the Lenders or their Affiliates or other persons provided for under such Loan Documents.

Official Body shall mean the government of the United States of America or any other nation, or of any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank) and any group or body charged with setting financial accounting or regulatory capital rules or standards (including, without limitation, the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the Bank for International Settlements or the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision or any successor or similar authority to any of the foregoing).

Original Currency shall have the meaning assigned to it in Section 5.7.1 [Currency Conversion Procedures for Judgements].

 

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Other Connection Taxes shall mean, 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 (but, without broadening the scope of the foregoing, not including any Tax imposed as a result of 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 Documents, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan or Loan Document).

Other Currency shall have the meaning assigned to it in Section 5.7.1 [Currency Conversion Procedures for Judgements].

Other Taxes shall mean 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 (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 5.6.2 [Replacement of a Lender]).

Overnight Bank Funding Rate shall mean, for any day, the rate comprised of both overnight federal funds and overnight Eurocurrency borrowings by U.S.-managed banking offices of depository institutions, as such composite rate shall be determined by the NYFRB, as set forth on its public website from time to time, and as published on the next succeeding Business Day as the overnight bank funding rate by the NYFRB (or by such other recognized electronic source (such as Bloomberg) selected by the Administrative Agent for the purpose of displaying such rate); provided, that if such day is not a Business Day, the Overnight Bank Funding Rate for such day shall be such rate on the immediately preceding Business Day; provided, further, that if such rate shall at any time, for any reason, no longer exist, a comparable replacement rate determined by the Administrative Agent at such time (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error). If the Overnight Bank Funding Rate determined as above would be less than zero, then such rate shall be deemed to be zero. The rate of interest charged shall be adjusted as of each Business Day based on changes in the Overnight Bank Funding Rate without notice to the Borrowers.

Participant has the meaning specified in Section 12.8.4 [Participations].

Participant Register shall have the meaning specified in Section 12.8.4 [Participations].

Payment Date shall mean the first day of each calendar quarter after the date hereof and on the Maturity Date or upon acceleration of the Notes.

Payment In Full and Paid in Full shall mean the indefeasible payment in full in cash of the Loans and other Obligations hereunder, and termination of the Commitments.

PBGC shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established pursuant to Subtitle A of Title IV of ERISA or any successor.

 

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Pension Plan shall mean at any time an “employee pension benefit plan” (as such term is defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA) (including a “multiple employer plan” as described in Sections 4063 and 4064 of ERISA, but not a Multiemployer Plan) which is covered by Title IV of ERISA or is subject to the minimum funding standards under Section 412 or Section 430 of the Code and either (i) is sponsored, 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 five years been sponsored, maintained or contributed to by any entity which was at such time a member of the ERISA Group for employees of any entity which was at such time a member of the ERISA Group, or in the case of a “multiple employer” or other plan described in Section 4064(a) of ERISA, has made contributions at any time during the immediately preceding five plan years.

Permitted Liens shall mean:

(i) Liens existing on the Closing Date and securing Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $25,000,000;

(ii) Liens existing on other assets at the date of acquisition thereof or which attach to such assets concurrently with or within 90 days after the acquisition thereof, securing Indebtedness incurred to finance the acquisition thereof in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not exceeding $75,000,000;

(iii) any Lien existing on any asset of any corporation at the time such corporation becomes a Consolidated Subsidiary of the Company or is merged or consolidated with or into the Company or one of its Consolidated Subsidiaries and not created in contemplation of such event;

(iv) any Lien arising out of the refinancing, extension, renewal or refunding of any Indebtedness secured by any Lien permitted by any of the foregoing clauses of this definition, provided that such Indebtedness is not increased and is not secured by any additional assets;

(v) other Liens arising in the ordinary course of the business of the Company or such Consolidated Subsidiary which are not incurred in connection with the borrowing of money or the obtaining of advances or credit, do not secure any obligation in an amount exceeding, individually or in the aggregate, the greater of (a) $75,000,000 or (b) 10% of the Net Worth of the Company and do not materially detract from the value of its property or assets or materially impair the use thereof in the operation of its business, including in relation to the Foreign Borrower, any Lien which arises under the general banking conditions of a bank in the Netherlands with which the Foreign Borrower holds an account;

(vi) Liens not otherwise permitted by the foregoing clauses of this definition securing Indebtedness in an aggregate principal or face amount, together with Liens securing obligations made under item (v) above, at any date not to exceed the greater of (a) $150,000,000 or (b) 10% of the Net Worth of the Company;

 

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(vii) Liens incurred pursuant to receivables securitizations and related assignments and sales of any income or revenues (including Receivables), including Liens on the assets of any Receivables Subsidiary created pursuant to any receivables securitization and Liens granted by the Company and its other Consolidated Subsidiaries on Receivables in connection with the transfer thereof, or to secure obligations owing by them, in respect of any such receivables securitization; provided that the aggregate principal amount of the investments and claims held at any time by all purchasers, assignees or other transferees of (or of interests in) Receivables from any Receivables Subsidiary, and other rights to payment held by such Persons, in all receivables securitizations shall not exceed $500,000,000;

(viii) Liens imposed by any Official Body for Taxes (a) not yet due and delinquent or (b) which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings and, during such period during which amounts are being so contested, such Liens shall not be executed on or enforced against any of the assets of any Borrower, provided that such Borrower shall have set aside on its books reserves deemed adequate therefor and not resulting in qualification by auditors;

(ix) carrier’s, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s, construction and other like Liens arising by operation of applicable Law, arising in the ordinary course of business and securing amounts: (a) which are not overdue for a period of more than 30 days, or (b) which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings and, during such period during which amounts are being so contested, such Liens shall not be executed on or enforced against any of the assets of any Borrower, provided that such Borrower shall have set aside on its books reserves deemed adequate therefor and not resulting in qualification by auditors;

(x) statutory Liens incurred, or pledges or deposits made, under worker’s compensation, employment insurance and other social security legislation;

(xi) undetermined or inchoate Liens and charges arising or potentially arising under statutory provisions which have not at the time been filed or registered in accordance with applicable Law or of which written notice has not been duly given in accordance with applicable Law or which although filed or registered, relate to obligations not due or delinquent;

(xii) investments made under cash management agreements with any Lenders; and

(xiii) Liens (if any) in favor of PNC in its capacity as administrative agent, in connection with the Revolving Credit Agreement.

Person shall mean any individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, joint venture, government or political subdivision or agency thereof, or any other entity.

PNC shall mean PNC Bank, National Association, its successors and assigns.

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Prime Rate shall mean the interest rate per annum announced from time to time by the Administrative Agent at its Principal Office as its then prime rate, which rate may not be the lowest or most favorable rate then being charged commercial borrowers or others by the Administrative Agent. Any change in the Prime Rate shall take effect at the opening of business on the day such change is announced.

Principal Office shall mean the main banking office of the Administrative Agent in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Professional Market Party shall mean a “professional market party” (professionele marktpartij) within the meaning of the Dutch Act on Financial Supervision (Wet op het financieel toezicht) and any regulations promulgated thereunder as amended or replaced from time to time.

PTE shall mean a prohibited transaction class exemption issued by the U.S. Department of Labor, as any such exemption may be amended from time to time.

Published Rate shall mean the rate of interest published each Business Day in The Wall Street JournalMoney Rates” listing under the caption “London Interbank Offered Rates” for a one month period (or, if no such rate is published therein for any reason, then the Published Rate shall be the rate at which U.S. dollar deposits are offered by leading banks in the London interbank deposit market for a one month period as published in another publication selected by the Administrative Agent).

QFC Credit Support shall have the meaning assigned to it in Section 12.15 [Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs].

Ratable Share shall mean (i) with respect to a Lender’s obligation to make Domestic Term Loans and receive payments, interest, and fees related thereto, the proportion that such Lender’s Domestic Term Loans bears to the Domestic Term Loans of all of the Lenders, (ii) with respect to a Lender’s obligation to make Foreign Term Loans and receive payments, interest, and fees related thereto, the proportion that such Lender’s Foreign Term Loans bears to the Foreign Term Loans of all of the Lenders, and (iii) with respect to all other matters as to a particular Lender, the percentage obtained by dividing (a) the sum of such Lender’s Domestic Term Loan and Foreign Term Loan by (b) the sum of the aggregate amount of the Domestic Term Loans and Foreign Term Loans of all of the Lenders; provided, however, that in the case of Section 2.11 [Defaulting Lenders] when a Defaulting Lender shall exist, “Ratable Share” shall mean the percentage of the aggregate Commitments (disregarding any Defaulting Lender’s Commitment) represented by such Lender’s Commitment. If the Commitments have terminated or expired, the Ratable Share shall be determined based upon the Commitments most recently in effect, giving effect to any assignments.

Receivables shall mean all accounts receivable of the Company or any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries (including any thereof constituting or evidenced by accounts, chattel paper, instruments or general intangibles), and rights (contractual and other) and collateral related thereto and all proceeds thereof.

 

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Receivables Subsidiary shall mean any special purpose, bankruptcy remote Consolidated Subsidiary of the Company that acquires, on a revolving or evergreen basis, Receivables generated by the Company or any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries and that engages in no operations or activities other than those related to receivables securitizations.

Recipient shall mean (a) the Administrative Agent and (b) any Lender, as applicable.

Related Parties shall mean, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates.

Release shall mean any discharge, emission or release, including a “RELEASE” as defined in CERCLA at 42 U.S.C. Section 9601(22). The term “Released” shall have a corresponding meaning.

Relief Proceeding shall mean, with respect to any Person, any proceeding seeking a decree or order for relief in respect of such Person in a voluntary or involuntary case under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or for the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator, conservator (or similar official) of such Person for any substantial part of its property, or for the winding-up or liquidation of its affairs, or an assignment for the benefit of its creditors.

Reportable Compliance Event shall mean that any Borrower or any Subsidiary of a Borrower, or, to the Borrowers’ actual knowledge and after due inquiry, any other Covered Person, becomes a Sanctioned Person, or is charged by indictment, criminal complaint or similar charging instrument, arraigned, or custodially detained in connection with any Anti-Terrorism Law or any predicate crime to any Anti-Terrorism Law, or has knowledge of facts or circumstances to the effect that it is reasonably likely that any aspect of its operations is in actual or probable violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law.

Required Lenders shall mean: (i) if there exists fewer than three (3) Lenders, all Lenders (other than any Defaulting Lenders), or (ii) if there exists three (3) or more Lenders, Lenders (other than any Defaulting Lender) having more than 50% of the aggregate outstanding amount of the Term Loans.

Resolution Authority means an EEA Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial Institution, a UK Resolution Authority.

Revolving Credit Agreement shall mean that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of the Revolving Credit Agreement Closing Date, by and among the Borrowers, certain of the Lenders, and PNC, as administrative agent for such Lenders, pursuant to which such Lenders made available to the Borrowers and certain affiliated entities a revolving credit facility in the amount of $1,300,000,000, as the same may from time to time be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time. The Liens (if any) securing the Revolving Credit Agreement shall be pari passu with the Liens (if any) securing all other Obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

 

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Revolving Credit Agreement Closing Date shall mean October 31, 2018.

RPM Netherlands shall have the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph.

Sanctioned Country shall mean a country subject to a sanctions program maintained under any Anti-Terrorism Law.

Sanctioned Person shall mean any individual person, group, regime, entity or thing listed or otherwise recognized as a specially designated, prohibited, sanctioned or debarred person, group, regime, entity or thing, or subject to any limitations or prohibitions (including but not limited to the blocking of property or rejection of transactions), under any Anti-Terrorism Law.

Senior Officer shall mean the chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, chief operating officer or treasurer of the Company.

Significant Subsidiary shall mean at any time any Subsidiary of the Company, except Subsidiaries of the Company which, if aggregated and considered as a single Subsidiary at the time of occurrence with respect to such Subsidiaries of any event or condition of the kind described in Section 9.1.11 [Relief Proceedings] or Section 9.1.7 [Inability to Pay Debts] would not meet the definition of a “significant subsidiary” contained as of the date hereof in Regulation S-X of the Securities and Exchange Commission; provided that for purposes of Section 8.1.1 [Preservation of Existence, Etc.] only, “Significant Subsidiary” shall mean at any time any Subsidiary which would meet the definition of a “significant subsidiary” contained as of the date hereof in Regulation S-X of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Solvent shall mean, with respect to any Person on any date of determination, taking into account any right of reimbursement, contribution or similar right available to such Person from other Persons, that on such date (i) the fair value of the property of such Person is greater than the total amount of liabilities, including contingent liabilities, of such Person, (ii) the present fair saleable value of the assets of such Person is not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts as they become absolute and matured, (iii) such Person is able to realize upon its assets and pay its debts and other liabilities, contingent obligations and other commitments as they mature in the normal course of business, (iv) such Person does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such Person’s ability to pay as such debts and liabilities mature, and (v) such Person is not engaged in business or a transaction, and is not about to engage in business or a transaction, for which such Person’s property would constitute unreasonably small capital after giving due consideration to the prevailing practice in the industry in which such Person is engaged. In computing the amount of contingent liabilities at any time, it is intended that such liabilities will be computed at the amount which, in light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability.

Standard & Poor’s shall mean Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. and its successors.

Statements shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.1.8 [Information].

 

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Subsidiary of any Person at any time shall mean any corporation, trust, partnership, limited liability company or other business entity (i) of which more than 50% of the outstanding voting securities or other interests normally entitled to vote for the election of one or more directors or trustees (regardless of any contingency which does or may suspend or dilute the voting rights) is at such time owned directly or indirectly by such Person or one or more of such Person’s Subsidiaries, or (ii) which is controlled or capable of being controlled by such Person or one or more of such Person’s Subsidiaries.

Supported QFC shall have the meaning assigned to it in Section 12.15 [Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs].

Taxes shall mean all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Official Body, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.

Term Loan shall mean any portion of Domestic Term Loan or Foreign Term Loan; Term Loans shall mean, collectively, Domestic Term Loan and Foreign Term Loan.

Term Loan Commitment shall mean, as to any Lender at any time, the amount of such Lender’s Domestic Term Loan Commitments and Foreign Term Loan Commitments, and Term Loan Commitments shall mean the aggregate Domestic Term Loan Commitments and Foreign Term Loan Commitments of all of the Lenders.

UK Financial Institution means any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA Rulebook (as amended form time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Prudential Regulation Authority) or any person falling within 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.

UK Resolution Authority means the Bank of England or any other public administrative authority having responsibility for the resolution of any UK Financial Institution.

Unencumbered Cash shall mean cash and Cash Equivalents of the Borrowers and their Consolidated Subsidiaries which are not subject to any Lien other than non-consensual Permitted Liens which do not restrict use of the cash or Cash Equivalents by the Borrowers and their Consolidated Subsidiaries.

USA Patriot Act shall mean the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Public Law 107-56, as the same has been, or shall hereafter be, renewed, extended, amended or replaced.

U.S. Person shall mean any Person that is a “United States Person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.

U.S. Special Resolution Regimes shall have the meaning assigned to it in Section 12.15 [Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs].

 

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U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate shall have the meaning specified in Section 5.9.7 [Status of Lenders].

Withholding Agent shall mean any Borrower and the Administrative Agent.

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.

1.2 Construction. Unless the context of this Agreement otherwise clearly requires, the following rules of construction shall apply to this Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents: (i) references to the plural include the singular, the plural, the part and the whole and the words “include,” “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”; (ii) the words “hereof,” “herein,” “hereunder,” “hereto” and similar terms in this Agreement or any other Loan Document refer to this Agreement or such other Loan Document as a whole; (iii) article, section, subsection, clause, schedule and exhibit references are to this Agreement or other Loan Document, as the case may be, unless otherwise specified; (iv) reference to any Person includes such Person’s successors and assigns; (v) reference to any agreement, including this Agreement and any other Loan Document together with the schedules and exhibits hereto or thereto, document or instrument means such agreement, document or instrument as amended, modified, replaced, substituted for, superseded or restated; (vi) relative to the determination of any period of time, “from” means “from and including,” “to” means “to but excluding,” and “through” means “through and including”; (vii) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights, (viii) section headings herein and in each other Loan Document are included for convenience and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement or such Loan Document, and (ix) unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall constitute references to Eastern Time.

1.3 Divisions of LLCs. Any reference herein to a merger, transfer, amalgamation, consolidation, assignment, sale, disposition or transfer, or similar term, shall be deemed to apply to a division of or by a limited liability company, or an allocation of assets to a series of a limited liability company (or the unwinding of such a division or allocation), as if it were a merger, transfer, amalgamation, consolidation, assignment, sale, disposition or transfer, or similar term, as applicable, to, of or with a separate Person. Any division of a limited liability company shall constitute a separate Person hereunder (and each division of any limited liability company that is a Subsidiary, joint venture or any other like term shall also constitute such a Person or entity).

 

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1.4 Accounting Principles; Changes in GAAP. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, all computations and determinations as to accounting or financial matters and all financial statements to be delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall be made and prepared in accordance with GAAP (including principles of consolidation where appropriate), and all accounting or financial terms shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms by GAAP; provided, however, that all accounting terms used in Section 8.2 [Negative Covenants] and all defined terms used in the definition of any accounting term used in Section 8.2 [Negative Covenants] shall have the meaning given to such terms (and defined terms) under GAAP as in effect on the date hereof applied on a basis consistent with those used in preparing Statements referred to in clause (b)(i) of Section 6.1.8 [Information]. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent in writing that a Borrower wishes to amend any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any change in GAAP occurring after the Closing Date on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrowers in writing that the Required Lenders wish to amend any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Borrowers shall negotiate in good faith to amend such ratios or requirements to preserve the original intent thereof in light of such change in GAAP or in the application thereof (subject to the approval of the Required Lenders); provided that, until so amended, such provision(s) shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such notice is withdrawn or such provision(s) amended in accordance herewith, and the Borrowers shall provide to the Administrative Agent, when they deliver their financial statements pursuant to Sections 8.3.1 [Quarterly Financial Statements] and 8.3.2 [Annual Financial Statements] of this Agreement, such reconciliation statements as shall be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent. Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, any obligations relating to a lease that was accounted for by the Company or any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP as an operating lease as of the Revolving Credit Agreement Closing Date (without giving effect to the phase-in of the effectiveness of any amendments to GAAP that have been adopted as of the date of this Agreement) and any operating lease entered into after the Revolving Credit Agreement Closing Date by the Company or any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries that would under GAAP as in effect on the Revolving Credit Agreement Closing Date (without giving effect to the phase-in of the effectiveness of any amendments to GAAP that have been adopted as of the date of this Agreement) have been accounted for as an operating lease shall be accounted for as obligations relating to an operating lease and not as capital lease or Indebtedness obligations (other than for purposes of the preparation and delivery of financial statements).

1.5 LIBOR Notification. Section 4.9 [Successor Euro-Rate Index] of this Agreement provides a mechanism for determining an alternative rate of interest in the event that the London interbank offered rate is no longer available or in certain other circumstances. The Administrative Agent does not warrant or accept any responsibility for and shall not have any liability with respect to, the administration, submission or any other matter related to the London interbank offered rate or other rates in the definition of “Euro-Rate” or with respect to any alternative or successor rate thereto, or replacement rate therefor.

 

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2. TERM LOAN FACILITY

2.1 Term Loan Commitments.

2.1.1 Domestic Term Loan Commitments. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof and relying upon the representations and warranties herein set forth, each Lender severally agrees to make a term loan (the “Domestic Term Loan”) to the Domestic Borrower on the Closing Date in such principal amount as the Domestic Borrower shall request up to, but not exceeding, such Lender’s Domestic Term Loan Commitment.

2.1.2 Foreign Term Loan Commitments. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof and relying upon the representations and warranties herein set forth, each Lender severally agrees to make a term loan (the “Foreign Term Loan”) to the Foreign Borrower on the Closing Date in such principal amount as the Foreign Borrower shall request up to, but not exceeding, such Lender’s Foreign Term Loan Commitment.

2.2 Nature of Lenders Obligations with Respect to Term Loans. The obligations of each Lender to make Term Loans to the Borrowers shall be in the proportion that such Lender’s Term Loan Commitment bears to the Term Loan Commitments of all Lenders to the Borrowers, but each Lender’s Term Loan to the Borrowers shall never exceed its Term Loan Commitment. The obligations of each Lender hereunder are several. The failure of any Lender to make a Term Loan shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations to make a Term Loan nor shall it impose any additional liability on any other Lender hereunder. The Lenders shall have no obligation to make Term Loans hereunder after the Closing Date. The Term Loan Commitments are not revolving credit commitments, and the Borrowers shall not have the right to borrow, repay and reborrow pursuant to Section 2.1 [Term Loan Commitments].

2.3 Repayment of Term Loans. Principal on the Term Loans shall be payable as one installment with all remaining principal on the Term Loans, to the extent not previously paid, due and payable on the Maturity Date.

2.4 Loan Requests.

2.4.1 Loan Requests. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Borrowers may from time to time prior to the Maturity Date request the Lenders to renew or convert the Interest Rate Option applicable to existing Term Loans pursuant to Section 4.2 [Interest Periods], by delivering to the Administrative Agent, not later than 12:00 noon, (i) three (3) Business Days prior to the proposed Borrowing Date with respect to the conversion to or the renewal of the Euro-Rate Option for any Loans; and (ii) the same Business Day of the proposed Borrowing Date with respect to the last day of the preceding Interest Period with respect to the conversion to the Base Rate Option for any Loan, of a duly completed request therefor substantially in the form of Exhibit 2.4.1 or a request by telephone immediately confirmed in writing by letter, facsimile or telex in such form (each, a “Loan Request”), it being understood that the Administrative Agent may rely on the authority of any individual making such a telephonic request without the necessity of receipt of such written confirmation. Each Loan Request shall be irrevocable and shall specify the aggregate amount of the proposed Loans comprising each Borrowing Tranche, and, if applicable, the Interest Period, which

 

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amount shall be in (x) integral multiples of $1,000,000 and not less than $5,000,000 for each Borrowing Tranche under the Euro-Rate Option, and (y) integral multiples of $500,000 and not less than $1,000,000 for each Borrowing Tranche under the Base Rate Option. Each Lender may, at its option, make any Loan by causing any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan; provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect in any manner the obligation of such Borrower to repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

2.5 [Reserved].

2.6 Notes. The Obligation of the Domestic Borrower and the Foreign Borrower to repay the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Domestic Term Loans and the Foreign Term Loans, respectively, made to each of them by each Lender, together with interest thereon, shall be evidenced by a Domestic Borrower term Note and a Foreign Borrower term Note, respectively, dated the Closing Date payable to the order of such Lender in a face amount equal to the Domestic Term Loan Commitment and the Foreign Term Loan Commitment, respectively, of such Lender.

2.7 Use of Proceeds. The proceeds of the Loans shall be used (i) to refinance existing indebtedness for borrowed money and (ii) to finance the payment of fees and expenses related to clause (i).

2.8 [Reserved].

2.9 [Reserved].

2.10 [Reserved].

2.11 Defaulting Lenders. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then the following provisions shall apply for so long as such Lender is a Defaulting Lender: the Commitment and outstanding Loans of such Defaulting Lender shall not be included in determining whether the Required Lenders have taken or may take any action hereunder (including any consent to any amendment, waiver or other modification pursuant to Section 12.1 [Modifications, Amendments or Waivers]); provided, that this Section 2.11 shall not apply to the vote of a Defaulting Lender in the case of an amendment, waiver or other modification requiring the consent of such Lender or each Lender directly affected thereby.

3. [RESERVED]

4. INTEREST RATES

4.1 Interest Rate Options. The Borrowers shall pay interest in respect of the outstanding unpaid principal amount of the Loans as selected by them from the Base Rate Option or Euro-Rate Option set forth below applicable to the Loans, it being understood that, subject to the provisions of this Agreement; provided that the Borrowers may select different Interest Rate Options and different Interest Periods to apply simultaneously to the Loans comprising different

 

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Borrowing Tranches and may convert to or renew one or more Interest Rate Options with respect to all or any portion of the Loans comprising any Borrowing Tranche; provided further that there shall not be at any one time outstanding (i) more than three (3) Borrowing Tranches for the Domestic Term Loan in the aggregate among all of the Domestic Term Loans and (ii) more than three (3) Borrowing Tranches for the Foreign Term Loan in the aggregate among all of the Foreign Term Loans and provided further that if an Event of Default or Potential Default exists and is continuing, the Borrowers may not request, convert to, or renew the Euro-Rate Option for any Loans and the Required Lenders may demand that all existing Borrowing Tranches bearing interest under the Euro-Rate Option shall be converted immediately to the Base Rate Option, subject to the obligation of the Borrowers to pay any indemnity under Section 5.10 [Indemnity] in connection with such conversion. If at any time the designated rate applicable to any Loan made by any Lender exceeds such Lender’s highest lawful rate, the rate of interest on such Lender’s Loan shall be limited to such Lender’s highest lawful rate.

4.1.1 Term Loan Interest Rate Options. Subject to Section 4.3 [Interest After Default], the Borrowers shall have the right to select from the following Interest Rate Options applicable to the Term Loans:

(i) Term Loan Base Rate Option: A fluctuating rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Margin, such interest rate to change automatically from time to time effective as of the effective date of each change in the Base Rate; or

(ii) Term Loan Euro-Rate Option: A rate per annum equal to the Euro-Rate plus the Applicable Margin.

4.1.2 Rate Calculations; Rate Quotations. All computations of interest for Base Rate Loans (including Base Rate Loans determined by reference to the Daily LIBOR Rate) shall be made on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, and actual days elapsed. All other computations of fees and interest shall be made on the basis of a 360-day year and actual days elapsed (which results in more fees or interest, as applicable, being paid than if computed on the basis of a 365 or 366 day year). A Borrower may call the Administrative Agent on or before the date on which a Loan Request is to be delivered to receive an indication of the rates then in effect, but it is acknowledged that such projection shall not be binding on the Administrative Agent or the Lenders nor affect the rate of interest which thereafter is actually in effect when the election is made.

4.2 Interest Periods. At any time when the Borrowers shall select, convert to or renew a Euro-Rate Option, the applicable Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent thereof by delivering a Loan Request to the Administrative Agent at least three (3) Business Days prior to the effective date of such Euro-Rate Option. The notice shall specify an Interest Period during which such Interest Rate Option shall apply. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, the following provisions shall apply to any selection of, renewal of, or conversion to a Euro-Rate Option:

4.2.1 Amount of Borrowing Tranche. Each Borrowing Tranche of Loans under the Euro-Rate Option shall be in integral multiples of $1,000,000 and not less than $5,000,000; and

 

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4.2.2 Renewals. In the case of the renewal of a Euro-Rate Option at the end of an Interest Period, the first day of the new Interest Period shall be the last day of the preceding Interest Period, without duplication in payment of interest for such day, or such other day as agreed to by the Administrative Agent and the Company.

4.3 Interest After Default. To the extent permitted by Law, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default and until such time such Event of Default shall have been cured or waived, at the discretion of the Administrative Agent or upon written demand by the Required Lenders to the Administrative Agent:

4.3.1 Interest Rate. The rate of interest for each Loan otherwise applicable pursuant to Section 4.1 [Interest Rate Options] shall be increased by 2.0% per annum;

4.3.2 Other Obligations. Each other Obligation hereunder if not paid when due shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the sum of the rate of interest applicable to Term Loans under the Base Rate Option plus an additional 2.0% per annum from the time such Obligation becomes due and payable and until it is Paid In Full; and

4.3.3 Acknowledgment. The Borrowers acknowledge that the increase in rates referred to in this Section 4.3 reflects, among other things, the fact that such Loans or other amounts have become a substantially greater risk given their default status and that the Lenders are entitled to additional compensation for such risk; and all such interest shall be payable by Borrowers upon demand by Administrative Agent.

4.4 Rates Unascertainable; Illegality; Increased Costs; Deposits Not Available.

4.4.1 Unascertainable. If on any date on which a Euro-Rate would otherwise be determined, the Administrative Agent shall have determined that:

(i) adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining such Euro-Rate, or

(ii) a contingency has occurred which materially and adversely affects the London interbank market relating to the Euro-Rate,

then the Administrative Agent shall have the rights specified in Section 4.4.4 [Administrative Agent’s and Lender’s Rights].

4.4.2 Illegality; Increased Costs; Deposits Not Available. If at any time any Lender shall have determined that:

(i) the making, maintenance or funding of any Loan to which a Euro-Rate Option applies has been made impracticable or unlawful by compliance by such Lender in good faith with any Law or any interpretation or application thereof by any Official Body or with any request or directive of any such Official Body (whether or not having the force of Law),

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(iii) after making all reasonable efforts, deposits of the relevant amount in Dollars for the relevant Interest Period for a Loan, or to banks generally, to which a Euro-Rate Option applies, respectively, are not available to such Lender with respect to such Loan, or to banks generally, in the interbank eurodollar market,

then the Administrative Agent shall have the rights specified in Section 4.4.4 [Administrative Agent’s and Lender’s Rights].

4.4.3 [Reserved].

4.4.4 Administrative Agents and Lenders Rights. In the case of any event specified in Section 4.4.1 [Unascertainable] above, the Administrative Agent shall promptly so notify the Lenders and the Borrowers thereof, in the case of an event specified in Section 4.4.2 [Illegality; Increased Costs; Deposits Not Available] above, such Lender shall promptly so notify the Administrative Agent and endorse a certificate to such notice as to the specific circumstances of such notice, and the Administrative Agent shall promptly send copies of such notice and certificate to the other Lenders and the Borrowers. Upon such date as shall be specified in such notice (which shall not be earlier than the date such notice is given), the obligation of (A) the Lenders, in the case of such notice given by the Administrative Agent, or (B) such Lender, in the case of such notice given by such Lender, to allow the Borrowers to select, convert to or renew a Euro-Rate Option or shall be suspended until the Administrative Agent shall have later notified the Borrowers, or such Lender shall have later notified the Administrative Agent, of the Administrative Agent’s or such Lender’s, as the case may be, determination that the circumstances giving rise to such previous determination no longer exist. If at any time the Administrative Agent makes a determination under Section 4.4.1 [Unascertainable] and the Borrowers have previously notified the Administrative Agent of their selection of, conversion to or renewal of a Euro-Rate Option and such Interest Rate Option has not yet gone into effect, such notification shall be deemed to provide for selection of, conversion to or renewal of the Base Rate Option otherwise available with respect to such Loans. If any Lender notifies the Administrative Agent of a determination under Section 4.4.2 [Illegality; Increased Costs; Deposits Not Available], the Borrowers shall, subject to the Borrowers’ indemnification Obligations under Section 5.10 [Indemnity], as to any Loan of the Lender to which a Euro-Rate Option applies, on the date specified in such notice either (i) convert such Loan to the Base Rate Option otherwise available with respect to such Loan, or (ii) prepay such Loan in accordance with Section 5.6 [Voluntary Prepayments]. Absent due notice from the Borrowers of conversion or prepayment, such Loan shall automatically be converted to the Base Rate Option otherwise available with respect to such Loan upon such specified date.

4.5 Selection of Interest Rate Options. If a Borrower fails to select a new Interest Period to apply to any Borrowing Tranche of Loans under the Euro-Rate Option at the expiration of an existing Interest Period applicable to such Borrowing Tranche in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.2 [Interest Periods], such Borrower shall be deemed to have renewed such Borrowing Tranche under the Euro-Rate Option, as applicable to Term Loans commencing upon the last day of the existing Interest Period.

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4.7 [Reserved].

4.8 [Reserved].

4.9 Successor Euro-Rate Index.

(a) Benchmark Replacement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, if the Administrative Agent determines that a Benchmark Transition Event or an Early Opt-in Event has occurred, the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers may amend this Agreement to replace the Euro-Rate with a Benchmark Replacement; and any such amendment will become effective at 5:00 p.m. New York City time on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the Administrative Agent has provided such proposed amendment to all Lenders, so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by such time, written notice of objection to such amendment from Lenders comprising the Required Lenders. Until the Benchmark Replacement is effective, each advance, conversion and renewal of a Loan under the Euro-Rate Option will continue to bear interest with reference to the Euro-Rate; provided however, during a Benchmark Unavailability Period (i) any pending selection of, conversion to or renewal of a Loan bearing interest under the Euro-Rate Option that has not yet gone into effect shall be deemed to be a selection of, conversion to or renewal of the Base Rate Option with respect to such Loan, (ii) all outstanding Loans bearing interest under the Euro-Rate Option shall automatically be converted to the Base Rate Option at the expiration of the existing Interest Period (or sooner, if Administrative Agent cannot continue to lawfully maintain such affected Loan under the Euro-Rate Option) and (iii) the component of the Base Rate based upon the Euro-Rate will not be used in any determination of the Base Rate.

(b) Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes. In connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement.

(c) Notices; Standards for Decisions and Determinations. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrowers and the Lenders of (i) the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement, (ii) the effectiveness of any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes and (iii) the commencement of any Benchmark Unavailability Period. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Administrative Agent or the Lenders pursuant to this Section 4.9 including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or their sole discretion and without consent from any other party hereto, except, in each case, as expressly required pursuant to this Section 4.9.

 

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(d) Certain Defined Terms. As used in this Section 4.9:

Benchmark Replacement” means the sum of: (a) the alternate benchmark rate that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a replacement rate or the mechanism for determining such a rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (ii) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a rate of interest as a replacement to the Euro-Rate for U.S. dollar-denominated credit facilities and (b) the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment; provided that, if the Benchmark Replacement as so determined would be less than zero, the Benchmark Replacement will be deemed to be zero for the purposes of this Agreement.

Benchmark Replacement Adjustment” means, with respect to any replacement of the Euro-Rate with an alternate benchmark rate for each applicable Interest Period, the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers (a) giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of the Euro-Rate with the applicable Benchmark Replacement (excluding such spread adjustment) by the Relevant Governmental Body or (ii) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for such replacement of the Euro-Rate for U.S. dollar-denominated credit facilities at such time and (b) which may also reflect adjustments to account for (i) the effects of the transition from the Euro-Rate to the Benchmark Replacement and (ii) yield- or risk-based differences between the Euro-Rate and the Benchmark Replacement.

Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes” means, with respect to any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of “Base Rate,” the definition of “Interest Period,” timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest and other administrative matters) that the Administrative Agent decides may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of such Benchmark Replacement and to permit the administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Administrative Agent determines that no market practice for the administration of the Benchmark Replacement exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent decides is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement).

Benchmark Replacement Date” means the earlier to occur of the following events with respect to the Euro-Rate:

(1) in the case of clause (1) or (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the later of (a) the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein and (b) the date on which the administrator of the Euro-Rate permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide the Euro-Rate; or

(2) in the case of clause (3) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein.

 

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Benchmark Transition Event” means the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to the Euro-Rate:

(1) a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of the Euro-Rate announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide the Euro-Rate, permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide the Euro-Rate;

(2) a public statement or publication of information by a Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over the Administrative Agent, the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of the Euro-Rate, the U.S. Federal Reserve System, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for the Euro-Rate, a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for the Euro-Rate or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for the Euro-Rate, which states that the administrator of the Euro-Rate has ceased or will cease to provide the Euro-Rate permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide the Euro-Rate; or

(3) a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of the Euro-Rate or a Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over the Administrative Agent announcing that the Euro-Rate is no longer representative.

Benchmark Unavailability Period” means, if a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred with respect to the Euro-Rate and solely to the extent that the Euro-Rate has not been replaced with a Benchmark Replacement, the period (x) beginning at the time that such Benchmark Replacement Date has occurred if, at such time, no Benchmark Replacement has replaced the Euro-Rate for all purposes hereunder in accordance with Section 4.9 and (y) ending at the time that a Benchmark Replacement has replaced the Euro-Rate for all purposes hereunder pursuant to Section 4.9.

Early Opt-in Event” means a determination by the Administrative Agent that U.S. dollar-denominated credit facilities being executed at such time, or that include language similar to that contained in this Section 4.9, are being executed or amended, as applicable, to incorporate or adopt a new benchmark interest rate to replace the Euro-Rate.

Relevant Governmental Body” means the Federal Reserve Board and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve Board and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or any successor thereto.

5. PAYMENTS

5.1 Payments. All payments and prepayments to be made in respect of principal, interest, Administrative Agent’s Fee or other fees or amounts due from the Borrowers hereunder shall be payable prior to 1:00 p.m. on the date when due without presentment, demand, protest or notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrowers, and without set-off, counterclaim or other deduction of any nature, and an action therefor shall immediately accrue. Such payments shall be made to the Administrative Agent at the Principal Office for the ratable accounts of the Lenders with respect to the Term Loans in U.S. Dollars and in immediately available funds, and the Administrative Agent shall promptly distribute such

 

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amounts to the Lenders in immediately available funds; provided that in the event payments are received by 1:00 p.m. by the Administrative Agent with respect to the Loans and such payments are not distributed to the Lenders on the same day received by the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent shall pay the Lenders interest at the Federal Funds Effective Rate with respect to the amount of such payments for each day held by the Administrative Agent and not distributed to the Lenders. The Administrative Agent’s and each Lender’s statement of account, ledger or other relevant record shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive as the statement of the amount of principal of and interest on the Loans and other amounts owing under this Agreement. The Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) debit the amount of any such payment which is not made by such time to any ordinary deposit account of the applicable Borrower with the Administrative Agent.

5.2 Pro Rata Treatment of Lenders. The borrowing of the Term Loans shall be allocated to each Lender according to its Ratable Share, and each selection of, conversion to or renewal of any Interest Rate Option and each payment or prepayment by the Borrowers with respect to principal, interest, or other fees (but excluding the Administrative Agent’s Fee) or amounts due from the Borrowers hereunder to the Lenders with respect to the Commitments and Loans, shall (except as otherwise may be provided with respect to a Defaulting Lender and except as provided in Section 4.4.4 [Administrative Agent’s and Lender’s Rights] in the case of an event specified in Section 4.4 [Euro-Rate Unascertainable; Etc.], 5.6.2 [Replacement of a Lender] or 5.8 [Increased Costs]) be payable ratably among the Lenders entitled to such payment in accordance with the amount of principal, interest, and other fees or amounts then due or payable such Lenders as set forth in this Agreement.

5.3 Sharing of Payments by Lenders. If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of setoff, counterclaim or banker’s lien, by receipt of voluntary payment, by realization upon security, or by any other non-pro rata source, obtain payment in respect of any principal of or interest on any of its Loans or other obligations hereunder resulting in such Lender’s receiving payment of a proportion of the aggregate amount of its Loans and accrued interest thereon or other such obligations greater than the pro-rata share of the amount such Lender is entitled thereto, then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall (a) notify the Administrative Agent of such fact, and (b) purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Loans and such other obligations of the other Lenders, or make such other adjustments as shall be equitable, so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amount of principal of and accrued interest on their respective Loans and other amounts owing them, provided that:

(i) if any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, together with interest or other amounts, if any, required by Law (including court order) to be paid by the Lender or the holder making such purchase; and

(ii) the provisions of this Section 5.3 shall not be construed to apply to (x) any payment made by the Borrowers pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of the Loan Documents or (y) any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans to any assignee or participant, other than to the Borrowers or any Consolidated Subsidiary thereof (as to which the provisions of this Section 5.3 shall apply).

 

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Each Borrower consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable Law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against each Borrower rights of setoff and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of each Borrower in the amount of such participation.

5.4 Presumptions by Administrative Agent. Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrowers prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders hereunder that the Borrowers will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrowers have made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Lenders, as the case may be, the amount due. In such event, if the Borrowers have not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders, as the case may be, severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the 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 Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.

5.5 Interest Payment Dates. Interest on Loans to which the Base Rate Option applies shall be due and payable in arrears on each Payment Date. Interest on Loans to which the Euro-Rate Option applies shall be due and payable on the last day of each Interest Period for those Loans and, if such Interest Period is longer than three (3) Months, also on the 90th day of such Interest Period. Interest on the principal amount of each Loan or other monetary Obligation shall be due and payable on demand after such principal amount or other monetary Obligation becomes due and payable (whether on the stated Maturity Date, upon acceleration or otherwise).

5.6 Voluntary Prepayments.

5.6.1 Right to Prepay. Each Borrower shall have the right at their option from time to time to prepay the Loans in whole or part without premium or penalty (except as provided in Section 5.6.2 [Replacement of a Lender] below, in Section 5.8 [Increased Costs] and Section 5.10 [Indemnity]). Whenever any Borrower desires to prepay any part of the Loans, such Borrower shall provide a prepayment notice to the Administrative Agent by 1:00 p.m. at least one (1) Business Day prior to the date of prepayment of the Term Loans, setting forth the following information:

(i) the date, which shall be a Business Day, on which the proposed prepayment is to be made;

(ii) a statement indicating the application of the prepayment between the Domestic Term Loans and the Foreign Term Loans;

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(iv) the total principal amount of such prepayment, which shall be equal to (i) in the case of any Base Rate Loan, $1,000,000, with minimum increments thereafter of $500,000 and (ii) in the case of any Euro-Rate Loan, $5,000,000, with minimum increments thereafter of $1,000,000 (prepayments of Loans with different Interest Rate Options or Interest Periods shall be deemed separate prepayments for the purposes of the foregoing).

All prepayment notices shall be irrevocable. The principal amount of the Loans for which a prepayment notice is given, together with interest on such principal amount shall be due and payable on the date specified in such prepayment notice as the date on which the proposed prepayment is to be made. All Term Loan prepayments permitted pursuant to this Section 5.6.1 [Right to Prepay] shall be applied to the unpaid installments of principal of the Term Loans in the inverse order of scheduled maturities. Except as provided in Section 4.4.4 [Administrative Agent’s and Lender’s Rights], if the Borrowers prepay a Loan but fails to specify (a) the applicable Borrowing Tranche which the Borrowers are prepaying, the prepayment shall be applied (i) first to Term Loans to which the Base Rate Option applies, (ii) then to Term Loans to which the Euro-Rate Option applies or (b) between Domestic Term Loans or Foreign Term Loans, the prepayment shall be applied pro rata among the Term Loans. Any prepayment hereunder shall be subject to the Borrowers’ Obligation to indemnify the Lenders under Section 5.10 [Indemnity].

5.6.2 Replacement of a Lender. In the event any Lender (a) gives notice under Section 4.4 [Euro-Rate Unascertainable, Etc.], (b) requests compensation under Section 5.8 [Increased Costs], or requires the Borrowers to pay any Indemnified Taxes or additional amount to any Lender or any Official Body for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 5.9 [Taxes], (c) is a Defaulting Lender, (d) becomes subject to the control of an Official Body (other than normal and customary supervision), or (e) is a Non-Consenting Lender referred to in Section 12.1 [Modifications, Amendments or Waivers], then in any such event the Borrowers may, at their sole effort and expense, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in, and consents required by, Section 12.8 [Successors and Assigns]), all of its interests, rights (other than existing rights to payments pursuant to Sections 5.8 [Increased Costs] or 5.9 [Taxes]) and obligations under this Agreement and the related Loan Documents to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment), provided that:

(i) the Borrowers shall have paid to the Administrative Agent the assignment fee specified in Section 12.8 [Successors and Assigns];

(ii) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (including any amounts under Section 5.10 [Indemnity]) from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrowers (in the case of all other amounts);

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(iv) such assignment does not conflict with applicable Law.

Solely with respect to circumstances described in Sections 5.6.2(i) through 5.6.2(iii), a Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment or delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrowers to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply.

5.6.3 Designation of a Different Lending Office. If any Lender requests compensation under Section 5.8.1 [Increased Costs Generally], or the Borrowers are or will be required to pay any Indemnified Taxes or additional amounts to any Lender or any Official Body for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 5.9 [Taxes], then such Lender shall (at the request of the Borrowers) use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 5.8 [Increased Costs] or Section 5.9 [Taxes], as the case may be, in the future, and (ii) would not subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be materially disadvantageous to such Lender. The Borrowers hereby agree to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.

5.7 Judgment Currency.

5.7.1 Currency Conversion Procedures for Judgments. If for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court it is necessary to convert a sum due hereunder or under a Note in any currency (the “Original Currency”) into another currency (the “Other Currency”), the parties hereby agree, to the fullest extent permitted by Law, that the rate of exchange used shall be that at which in accordance with normal lending procedures the Administrative Agent could purchase the Original Currency with the Other Currency after any premium and costs of exchange on the Business Day preceding that on which final judgment is given.

5.7.2 Indemnity in Certain Events. The obligation of the Borrowers in respect of any sum due from the Borrowers to any Lender hereunder shall, notwithstanding any judgment in an Other Currency, whether pursuant to a judgment or otherwise, be discharged only to the extent that, on the Business Day following receipt by any Lender of any sum adjudged to be so due in such Other Currency, such Lender may in accordance with normal lending procedures purchase the Original Currency with such Other Currency. If the amount of the Original Currency so purchased is less than the sum originally due to such Lender in the Original Currency, the Borrowers agree, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment or payment, to indemnify such Lender against such loss. If the amount of the Original Currency so purchased is greater than the sum originally due to such Lender in the Original Currency, such Lender agrees to return the amount of any excess to the Borrowers (or to any other Person who may be entitled thereto under applicable Law).

 

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5.8 Increased Costs.

5.8.1 Increased Costs Generally. If any Change in Law shall:

(i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan, insurance charge or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended or participated in by, any Lender (except any reserve requirement which is addressed separately in this Section 5.8);

(ii) subject any Recipient to any Taxes (other than (A) Indemnified Taxes, (B) Taxes described in clauses (ii) through (iv) of the definition of Excluded Taxes and (C) Connection Income Taxes) on its loans, loan principal, letters of credit, commitments, or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable thereto; or

(iii) impose on any Lender or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense (other than Taxes) affecting this Agreement or Loans made by such Lender;

and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender or such other Recipient of making, converting to, continuing or maintaining any Loan or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan, or to increase the cost to such Lender, or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or other Recipient hereunder (whether of principal, interest or any other amount) then, upon request of such Lender or other Recipient, the Borrowers will pay to such Lender or other Recipient, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.

5.8.2 Capital Requirements. If any Lender determines that any Change in Law affecting such Lender or any lending office of such Lender or such Lender’s holding company, if any, regarding capital or liquidity requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement, the Commitments of such Lender or the Loans made by such Lender, to a level below that which such Lender or such Lender’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s policies and the policies of such Lender’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy), then from time to time the Borrowers will pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such Lender’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.

5.8.3 Certificates for Reimbursement; Repayment of Outstanding Loans; Borrowing of New Loans. A certificate of a Lender setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in Sections 5.8.1 [Increased Costs Generally] or 5.8.2 [Capital Requirements] and setting forth in reasonable detail the calculations necessary to determine such amount or amounts, and delivered to the Borrowers shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrowers shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within ten (10) days after receipt thereof.

 

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5.8.4 Delay in Requests. Each Lender agrees to promptly give the Borrowers notice of any demand for compensation pursuant to this Section 5.8 [Increased Costs]. Failure or delay on the part of any Lender to demand compensation pursuant to this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s right to demand such compensation, provided that the Borrowers shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to this Section 5.8 [Increased Costs] for any increased costs incurred or reductions suffered more than six (6) months prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Borrowers of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s intention to claim compensation therefor (except that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the six (6) month period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof).

5.8.5 Additional Reserve Requirements. The Borrowers shall pay to each Lender (i) as long as such Lender shall be required to maintain reserves with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or including eurocurrency funds or deposits, additional interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Loan under the Euro-Rate Option equal to the actual costs of such reserves allocated to such Loan by such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error), and (ii) as long as such Lender shall be required to comply with any reserve ratio requirement under Regulation D or under any similar, successor or analogous requirement of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor) or any other central banking or financial regulatory authority imposed in respect of the maintenance of the Commitments or the funding of the Loans under the Euro-Rate Option, such additional costs (expressed as a percentage per annum and rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest five decimal places) equal to the actual costs allocated to such Commitment or Loan by such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error), which in each case shall be due and payable on each date on which interest is payable on such Loan; provided that in each case the Borrowers shall have received at least ten days’ prior notice (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of such additional interest or costs from such Lender. If a Lender fails to give notice ten days prior to the relevant Payment Date, such additional interest or costs shall be due and payable ten days from receipt of such notice.

5.9 Taxes.

5.9.1 FATCA. For purposes of this Section 5.9 [Taxes], the term “applicable Law” includes FATCA.

5.9.2 Payments Free of Taxes. Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of any Borrower under any Loan Document shall be 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 Official Body in accordance with applicable Law and, if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, then the sum payable by the applicable Borrower 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 5.9 [Taxes]) 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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5.9.3 Payment of Other Taxes by the Borrowers. The Borrowers shall timely pay to the relevant Official Body in accordance with applicable Law, or at the option of the Administrative Agent timely reimburse it for the payment of, any Other Taxes.

5.9.4 Indemnification by the Borrowers. The Borrowers shall jointly and severally indemnify each Recipient, within thirty (30) 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 5.9 [Taxes]) 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 Official Body. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrowers 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.

5.9.5 Indemnification by the Lenders. Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Administrative Agent, within ten (10) days after demand therefor, for (i) any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the extent that any Borrower has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of any of the Borrowers to do so), (ii) any Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 12.8.4 [Participations] 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 Official Body. 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 Section 5.9.5 [Indemnification by the Lenders].

5.9.6 Evidence of Payments. As soon as practicable after any payment of Taxes by any Borrower to an Official Body pursuant to this Section 5.9 [Taxes], such Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Official Body evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 

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5.9.7 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 Borrowers and the Administrative Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by the Borrowers 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 Borrowers or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable Law or reasonably requested by the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such 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 Section 5.9.7.1(ii)(A), 5.9.7.1(ii)(B) and 5.9.7.1(iv)(D) below) shall not be required if in the Lender’s 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. If any Foreign Lender fails to comply with the provisions in this Section 5.9, then the Borrowers shall not have any obligation to increase the sum payable to such Lender pursuant to Section 5.9 [Taxes] or to indemnify such Lender pursuant to this Section 5.9 for Taxes (included related penalties, interest and expenses) imposed by the United States or any political subdivision thereof.

(ii) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, with regard to the Domestic Borrower,

(A) any Lender that is a U.S. Person shall deliver to the Domestic 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 Borrowers or the Administrative Agent), executed originals of IRS Form W-9 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 Domestic 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 Borrowers 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, executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN 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 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) executed originals of 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 Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit 5.9.7(A) to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not (A) a “bank” within

 

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the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (B) a “10 percent shareholder” of the Domestic Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or (C) a “controlled foreign corporation” described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a “U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (y) executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN; or

(iv) to the extent a Foreign Lender is not the beneficial owner, executed originals of IRS Form W-8IMY, accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI, IRS Form W-8BEN, a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit 5.9.7(B) or Exhibit 5.9.7(C), 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 5.9.7(D) 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 Domestic 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 Borrowers or the Administrative Agent), executed originals 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 Borrowers 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 Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Domestic Borrower and the Administrative Agent at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Domestic Borrower and the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such Lender’s 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 Domestic Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.

5.9.8 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 5.9 [Taxes] (including by the payment of additional amounts pursuant to this Section 5.9 [Taxes]), it shall pay to the indemnifying party an amount

 

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equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made under this Section 5.9 [Taxes] 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 Official Body with respect to such refund). Such indemnifying party, upon the request of such indemnified party incurred in connection with obtaining such refund, shall repay to such indemnified party the amount paid over pursuant to this Section 5.9.8 [Treatment of Certain Refunds] (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Official Body) in the event that such indemnified party is required to repay such refund to such Official Body. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 5.9.8 [Treatment of Certain Refunds], in no event will the indemnified party be required to pay any amount to an indemnifying party pursuant to this Section 5.9.8 [Treatment of Certain Refunds] 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 paragraph 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.

5.9.9 Survival. Each party’s obligations under this Section 5.9 [Taxes] shall survive the resignation 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.

5.9.10 Lenders’ Cooperation in Tax Matters. Promptly upon request by the Administrative Agent, at the Borrowers’ expense, each of the Lenders agrees to cooperate in completing any procedural formalities necessary for any Borrower to obtain authorization to make any payments under this Agreement without any deduction or withholding for or on account of taxes from a payment under a Loan Document.

5.10 Indemnity. In addition to the compensation or payments required by Section 5.8 [Increased Costs] or Section 5.9 [Taxes], the Borrowers shall indemnify each Lender against all liabilities, losses or expenses (including loss of anticipated profits, any foreign exchange losses and any loss or expense arising from the liquidation or reemployment of funds obtained by it to maintain such Loan, from fees payable to terminate the deposits from which such funds were obtained or from the performance of any foreign exchange contract) which such Lender sustains or incurs as a consequence of any:

(i) payment, prepayment, conversion or renewal of any Loan to which a Euro-Rate Option applies on a day other than the last day of the corresponding Interest Period (whether or not such payment or prepayment is mandatory, voluntary or automatic and whether or not such payment or prepayment is then due), or any voluntary prepayment without the required notice,

(ii) attempt by any Borrower to revoke (expressly, by later inconsistent notices or otherwise) in whole or part any Loan Requests under Section 2.4 [Loan Requests] or Section 4.2 [Interest Periods] or notice relating to prepayments under Section 5.6 [Voluntary Prepayments], or

 

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(iii) default by any Borrower in the performance or observance of any covenant or condition contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, including any failure of the Borrowers to pay when due (by acceleration or otherwise) any principal, interest or any other amount due hereunder.

If any Lender sustains or incurs any such loss or expense, it shall from time to time notify the Borrowers of the amount determined in good faith by such Lender (which determination may include such assumptions, allocations of costs and expenses and averaging or attribution methods as such Lender shall deem reasonable) to be necessary to indemnify such Lender for such loss or expense. Such notice shall set forth in reasonable detail the basis for such determination. Such amount shall be due and payable by the Borrowers to such Lender ten (10) Business Days after such notice is given.

6. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

6.1 Representations and Warranties. The Borrowers, jointly and severally, represent and warrant to the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders as follows:

6.1.1 Organization and Qualification; Power and Authority; Compliance With Laws; Title to Properties; Event of Default. Each of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries (i) is a corporation, partnership or limited liability company (or foreign jurisdictional equivalent) duly organized or formed, as applicable, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization or formation, as applicable, (ii) has all requisite corporate, partnership or limited liability company (or foreign equivalent) power, and has all governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals necessary to own its assets and carry on its business as now being or as proposed to be conducted, except in the case of such licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals, where the failure to obtain them would not have a Material Adverse Effect; and (iii) is duly licensed or qualified and in good standing (or foreign jurisdictional equivalent) in each jurisdiction where such licensing or qualification is required, except where the failure to be licensed, qualified or in good standing will not result in a Material Adverse Effect. No Event of Default or Potential Default exists or is continuing.

6.1.2 Consolidated Subsidiaries and Owners; Investment Companies. Schedule 6.1.2 is a complete and correct list, as of the date of this Agreement, of all Consolidated Subsidiaries of the Company and of all Investments held by the Company or any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries in any material joint venture or other similar Person. The Certificates of Beneficial Ownership executed and delivered to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders on or prior to the date of this Agreement are true and correct as of the date hereof. The Company owns, free and clear of Liens, all outstanding shares or other equity interests of its Consolidated Subsidiaries and all such shares or other equity interests are validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable (except in the case of RPM Canada Company, an unlimited company formed under the laws of Nova Scotia) and the Company (or the respective Consolidated Subsidiary of the Company) also owns, free and clear of Liens, all such Investments.

 

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6.1.3 Corporate Action. Each Borrower has all necessary corporate, partnership or limited liability company (or foreign equivalent) power, as applicable, and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party; the execution, delivery and performance by each Borrower of the Loan Documents to which it is a party have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership or limited liability company (or foreign equivalent) action, as applicable; and this Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by each Borrower and constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of such Borrower and, on the Closing Date, each of the other Loan Documents to which the Borrowers are to be a party will constitute their legal, valid and binding obligation, in each case enforceable in accordance with their terms, except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or moratorium or other similar laws relating to the enforcement or creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles.

6.1.4 No Breach. Neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents by any Borrower nor the consummation of the transactions herein or therein contemplated or compliance with the terms and provisions hereof or thereof by any of them will conflict with, constitute a breach of, or require any consent under, the Organizational Documents of the Company or any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries, or any applicable law or regulation, or any order, writ, injunction or decree of any court or governmental authority or agency, or any Loan Document or other material agreement or instrument (including the Revolving Credit Agreement) to which the Company or any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries is a party or by which it is bound or to which it is subject, or constitute a default under any such material agreement or instrument (including the Revolving Credit Agreement), or result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of the revenues or assets of the Company or any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries pursuant to the terms of any such agreement or instrument.

6.1.5 Litigation. Except as disclosed in the Disclosure Documents, there are no legal or arbitral proceedings or any proceedings by or before any governmental or regulatory authority or agency, now pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the Company or any Consolidated Subsidiary of such the Company which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or which in any manner draws into question the validity of any material provision of any Loan Document. The disclosure of litigation to the Lenders pursuant to this Section does not necessarily mean that such litigation is of the type described in this Section or that the Company believes that such litigation has any merit whatsoever.

6.1.6 Approvals. Each of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries has obtained all material authorizations, approvals and consents of, and has made all filings and registrations with, any governmental or regulatory authority or agency and any third party necessary for the execution, delivery or performance by it of any Loan Document to which it is a party, or for the validity or enforceability thereof.

 

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6.1.7 Margin Stock. None of the Company or any Consolidated Subsidiaries of the Company engages or intends to engage principally, or as one of its important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose, immediately, incidentally or ultimately, of purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U, T or X as promulgated by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System). No part of the proceeds of any Loan has been or will be used, immediately, incidentally or ultimately, to purchase or carry any margin stock or to extend credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any margin stock or which is inconsistent with the provisions of the regulations of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. None of the Borrowers or any Consolidated Subsidiary of any Borrower holds or intends to hold margin stock in such amounts that more than 25% of the reasonable value of the assets of any Borrower or any Consolidated Subsidiary of any Borrower are or will be represented by margin stock.

6.1.8 Information.

(a) Neither this Agreement nor any other Loan Document, nor any certificate, statement, agreement or other documents furnished to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection herewith or therewith, contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements contained herein and therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

(b) Without limiting the generality of paragraph (a):

(i) The audited consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of May 31, 2019 and the audited consolidated statements of income, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2019 (collectively, the “Statements”) have been prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied. The Statements fairly present the financial position of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of May 31, 2019 and the results of their operation and their cash flows for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2019 in conformity with GAAP.

(ii) The unaudited balance sheet of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of November 30, 2019 and the unaudited consolidated statements of income, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for the three (3) months then ended have been prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, and fairly present the financial position of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of November 30, 2019 including their operations and their cash flows for the three (3) months then ended in conformity with GAAP (subject to normal year-end adjustments).

(iii) The Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries did not on the date of the balance sheet referred to in clause (i) above, and will not on the Closing Date, have any material contingent liabilities, material liabilities for taxes, unusual and material forward or long-term commitments or material unrealized or anticipated losses from any unfavorable commitments, except as referred to or reflected or provided for in said balance sheet.

 

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(c) The Company has disclosed to the Lenders in writing any and all facts (other than general economic or industry conditions) which have or may have a Material Adverse Effect.

(d) Since May 31, 2019, no event has occurred and no condition has come into existence which has had, or is reasonably likely to have, a Material Adverse Effect.

6.1.9 Taxes. All federal, state, provincial, local and other material tax returns required to have been filed with respect to the Company and each Consolidated Subsidiary of the Company have been filed, and payment or adequate provision has been made for the payment of all taxes, fees, assessments and other governmental charges which have or may become due pursuant to said returns or to assessments received, except to the extent that (a) such taxes, fees, assessments and other charges are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and for which such reserves or other appropriate provisions, if any, as shall be required by GAAP shall have been made in accordance with Section 8.1.2 [Payment of Liabilities, Including Taxes, Etc.], or (b) those that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. There are no material tax disputes or contests pending as of the Closing Date which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The charges, accruals and reserves on the books of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries in respect of taxes and other governmental charges are, in the opinion of the Company, adequate.

6.1.10 Ownership and Use of Properties. Each of the Company and each Consolidated Subsidiary of the Company will have on the Closing Date and at all times thereafter, legal title or ownership of, or the right to use pursuant to enforceable and valid agreements or arrangements, all tangible property, both real and personal, and all franchises, licenses, copyrights, patents and know-how which is material to the operation of its business to be conducted.

6.1.11 Anti-Terrorism Laws; Anti-Corruptions Laws; Affected Financial Institutions. (a) (i) None of the Borrowers nor any Subsidiary of the Borrowers, nor to the knowledge of the Borrowers, any director, officer, employee, agent or Affiliate of any Borrower, is a Sanctioned Person, and (ii) none of the Borrowers nor any Subsidiary of the Borrowers, nor to the knowledge of the Borrowers, any director, officer, employee, agent or Affiliate of any Borrower, either in its own right or through any third party, (A) has any of its assets in a Sanctioned Country or in the possession, custody or control of a Sanctioned Person in violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law, (B) does business in or with, or derives any of its income from investments in or transactions with, any Sanctioned Country or Sanctioned Person in violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law; or (C) engages in any dealings or transactions prohibited by any Anti-Terrorism Law.

(b) The Borrowers, their respective Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers and employees and, to the knowledge of the Borrowers, the agents of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries, are in compliance with all applicable Anti-Corruptions Laws in all material respects. The Company maintains and will continue to maintain and enforce policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve continued compliance with Anti-Terrorism Laws and Anti-Corruption Laws.

 

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(c) No Borrower is an Affected Financial Institution.

6.1.12 Investment Company Act. Neither the Company nor any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries is an investment company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, or directly or indirectly, controlled by or acting on behalf of any Person which is an investment company within the meaning of said Act, and shall not become such an “investment company” or under such “control.”

6.1.13 ERISA Compliance.

(i) Each Pension Plan is in compliance in all material respects with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code and other federal or state Laws. Each Pension Plan that is intended to qualify under Section 401(a) of the Code has received from the IRS a favorable determination or opinion letter, which has not by its terms expired, that such Pension Plan is so qualified, or such Pension Plan is entitled to rely on an IRS advisory or opinion letter with respect to an IRS-approved master and prototype or volume submitter plan, or a timely application for such a determination or opinion letter is currently being processed by the IRS with respect thereto; and, to the best knowledge of Borrowers, nothing has occurred which would prevent, or cause the loss of, such qualification. Borrowers and each member of the ERISA Group have made all required contributions to each Pension Plan subject to Sections 412 or 430 of the Code, and no application for a funding waiver or an extension of any amortization period pursuant to Sections 412 or 430 of the Code has been made with respect to any Pension Plan.

(ii) No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur; (a) no Pension Plan has any unfunded pension liability (i.e., excess of benefit liabilities over the current value of that Pension Plan’s assets, determined pursuant to the assumptions used for funding the Pension Plan for the applicable plan year in accordance with Section 430 of the Code); (b) no Borrower nor any member of the ERISA Group has incurred, or reasonably expects to incur, any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to any Pension Plan (other than premiums due and not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA); (c) no Borrower nor any member of the ERISA Group has incurred, or reasonably expects to incur, any liability (and no event has occurred which, with the giving of notice under Section 4219 of ERISA, would result in such liability) under Section 4201 of ERISA, with respect to a Multiemployer Plan; (d) no Borrower nor any member of the ERISA Group has received notice pursuant to Section 4242(a)(1)(B) of ERISA that a Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization and that additional contributions are due to the Multiemployer Plan pursuant to Section 4243 of ERISA; and (e) no Borrower nor any member of the ERISA Group has engaged in a transaction that could be subject to Sections 4069 or 4212(c) of ERISA.

6.1.14 Environmental Matters. Except as disclosed in the Disclosure Documents, neither the Company nor any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries has (i) failed to obtain any permits, certificates, licenses, approvals, registrations and other authorizations which are required under any applicable Environmental Law where failure to have any such permit, certificate, license, approval, registration or authorization would have a Material Adverse Effect; (ii) failed to comply with the terms and conditions of all such permits, certificates, licenses, approvals, registrations and authorizations, and are also in compliance with all other limitations, restrictions, conditions, standards, prohibitions, requirements,

 

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obligations, schedules and timetables contained in any applicable Environmental Law or in any notice or demand letter from any regulatory authority issued, entered, promulgated or approved thereunder where failure to comply would have a Material Adverse Effect; or (iii) failed to conduct its business so as to comply in all respects with applicable Environmental Laws where failure to so comply would have a Material Adverse Effect. The disclosure of any failure or alleged failure to the Lenders pursuant to this Section does not necessarily mean that such failure is of the type described in this Section or that any such allegations has any merit whatsoever.

6.1.15 Solvency. On the Closing Date and after giving effect to the initial Loans hereunder, the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries are Solvent.

7. CONDITIONS OF LENDING

The obligation of each Lender to make Loans hereunder is subject to the performance by each of the Borrowers of their Obligations to be performed hereunder at or prior to the making of any such Loans and to the satisfaction of the following further conditions:

7.1 First Loans.

7.1.1 Deliveries. On the Closing Date, the Administrative Agent shall have received each of the following in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent:

(i) A certificate of the Company signed by an Authorized Officer of the Company, dated the Closing Date stating that (A) all representations and warranties of the Borrowers set forth in this Agreement are true and correct in all material respects, (B) the Borrowers are in compliance with each of the covenants and conditions hereunder, (C) no Event of Default or Potential Default exists and (D) there is no litigation or proceedings of which it is aware before any courts, arbitrators or governmental or regulatory agencies affecting the Company or any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;

(ii) A certificate dated the Closing Date and signed by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or Director of each of the Borrowers, certifying as appropriate as to: (a) all action taken by each Borrower in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents; (b) the names of the Authorized Officers authorized to sign the Loan Documents and their true signatures; and (c) copies of its organizational documents as in effect on the Closing Date certified by the appropriate state official where such documents are filed in a state office together with certificates from the appropriate state officials as to the continued existence and good standing (or foreign jurisdictional equivalent in each jurisdiction where such certification is required) of each Borrower in each state where organized or qualified to do business;

(iii) This Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents signed by an Authorized Officer;

(iv) Opinions of counsel for each of the Borrowers, dated the Closing Date, each in form and substance acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders;

 

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(v) A completed and executed Loan Request from the Borrowers in substantially the form of Exhibit 2.5.1;

(vi) All regulatory approvals and licenses necessary for this Agreement shall have been completed and there shall be an absence of any legal or regulatory prohibitions or restrictions;

(vii) Lien searches in acceptable scope and with acceptable results;

(viii) An executed Certificate of Beneficial Ownership for the Foreign Borrower in form and substance acceptable to the Administrative Agent and each Lender, and such other documentation and other information requested by the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the USA Patriot Act; and

(ix) Evidence that adequate insurance required to be maintained under this Agreement is in full force and effect, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

7.1.2 Payment of Fees. The Borrowers shall have paid all fees payable on or before the Closing Date as required by this Agreement, the Administrative Agent’s Letter or any other Loan Document.

7.1.3 Due Diligence. All legal details and proceedings in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, the Notes and all other Loan Documents, including, but not limited to, the business, legal, accounting and financial due diligence with respect to the Borrowers, shall be in form and scope satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders.

8. COVENANTS

The Borrowers, jointly and severally, covenant and agree that until Payment In Full, the Borrowers shall comply at all times with the following covenants:

8.1 Affirmative Covenants.

8.1.1 Preservation of Existence, Etc. Each Borrower shall, and shall cause each of its Consolidated Subsidiaries to, maintain its legal existence as a corporation, limited partnership or limited liability company (or foreign equivalent) and its license or qualification and good standing in each jurisdiction in which its ownership or lease of property or the nature of its business makes such license or qualification necessary, provided that nothing herein shall prevent (i) the consolidation or merger (and resulting dissolution) of any Consolidated Subsidiary of the Company into the Company so long as the Company is the surviving corporation, (ii) the consolidation or merger of any Consolidated Subsidiary of the Company into any other Consolidated Subsidiary of the Company so long as, in the case of such mergers or consolidations involving one or more Borrowers (other than the Company), a Borrower is the surviving entity, (iii) the sale of any Consolidated Subsidiary of the Company which is not a Significant Subsidiary, (iv) the sale of any Consolidated Subsidiary of the Company as long as such Consolidated Subsidiary remains a Consolidated Subsidiary of the Company, (v) the

 

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termination of corporate, partnership or limited liability company (or foreign equivalent) existence, dissolution or abandonment by the Company of any Consolidated Subsidiary which is a not a Significant Subsidiary, (vi) the termination of partnership or limited liability company (or foreign equivalent) existence or dissolution by the Company or any Consolidated Subsidiary so long as such termination of partnership or limited liability company (or foreign equivalent) or dissolution is effectuated between Consolidated Subsidiaries of the Company, and (vii) any sale, lease or transfer of assets not prohibited by Section 8.2.3 [Liquidations, Mergers, Consolidations].

8.1.2 Payment of Liabilities, Including Taxes, Etc. Each Borrower shall, and the Company shall cause each of its Consolidated Subsidiaries to, duly pay and discharge all material liabilities to which it is subject or which are asserted against it, promptly as and when the same shall become due and payable, including all material taxes, assessments and governmental charges upon it or any of its properties, assets, income or profits, prior to the date on which penalties attach thereto, and all material lawful claims which, if unpaid, might become a Lien upon the property of such Borrower or such Consolidated Subsidiary, provided that neither the Borrowers nor the Company’s Consolidated Subsidiaries shall be required to pay any such taxes, assessments or charges, levy or claim (a) the payment of which is being contested in good faith and by proper proceedings if it maintains adequate reserves with respect thereto and if such contest, proceedings and reserves have been described in a certificate of a Senior Officer delivered to the Lenders, or (b) if the non-payment thereof could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

8.1.3 Maintenance of Insurance. Each Borrower shall, and shall cause each of its Consolidated Subsidiaries to, insure its properties and assets against loss or damage by fire and such other insurable hazards as such assets are commonly insured (including fire, extended coverage, property damage, workers’ compensation, public liability and business interruption insurance) and against other risks (including errors and omissions) in such amounts as similar properties and assets are insured by prudent companies in similar circumstances carrying on similar businesses, and with reputable and financially sound insurers, including self-insurance to the extent customary.

8.1.4 Maintenance of Properties and Leases. Each Borrower shall, and shall cause each of its Consolidated Subsidiaries to, maintain in good repair, working order and condition (ordinary wear and tear excepted and having regard to the condition of such properties at the time such properties were acquired by such Borrowers) in accordance with the general practice of other businesses of similar character and size, all of those properties useful or necessary to its business, and from time to time, such Borrower will make or cause to be made all appropriate repairs, renewals or replacements thereof.

8.1.5 Visitation Rights. Each Borrower shall, and shall cause each of its Consolidated Subsidiaries to, permit any of the officers or authorized employees or representatives of the Administrative Agent or any of the Lenders to visit and inspect any of its properties and to examine and make excerpts from its books and records and discuss its business affairs, finances and accounts with its officers, all in such detail and at such times and as often as any of the Lenders may reasonably request, provided that each Lender shall provide the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent with reasonable notice prior to any visit or

 

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inspection. In the event any Lender desires to conduct an audit of any Borrower, such Lender shall make a reasonable effort to conduct such audit contemporaneously with any audit to be performed by the Administrative Agent. Absent an Event of Default, such visits and inspections shall be limited to one time per year. Any Lender may accompany the Administrative Agent on such visitation or inspection. All such inspections shall be on a Business Day during normal business hours.

8.1.6 Keeping of Records and Books of Account. The Borrowers shall, and shall cause each Consolidated Subsidiary of the Borrowers to, maintain and keep proper books of record and account which enable the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries to issue financial statements in accordance with GAAP and as otherwise required by applicable Laws of any Official Body having jurisdiction over the Borrowers or any Consolidated Subsidiary of the Borrowers, and in which full, true and correct entries shall be made in all material respects of all its dealings and business and financial affairs.

8.1.7 Compliance with Laws. The Company shall, and shall cause each of its Consolidated Subsidiaries to, comply with all applicable Laws, including all Environmental Laws, in all respects; provided that it shall not be deemed to be a violation of this Section 8.1.7 [Compliance with Laws] if any failure to comply with any Law would not result in fines, penalties, remediation costs, other similar liabilities or injunctive relief which in the aggregate would constitute a Material Adverse Effect except where contested in good faith and by proper proceedings if it maintains adequate reserves with respect thereto and if such contest, proceedings and reserves have been described in a certificate of a Senior Officer delivered to the Lenders.

8.1.8 Use of Proceeds. The Borrowers will use the proceeds of the Loans only in accordance with Section 2.7 [Use of Proceeds] and as permitted by applicable Law.

8.1.9 Litigation. The Company will promptly give to the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify each Lender) notice in writing of all litigation and of all legal or arbitral proceedings of which it is aware before any courts, arbitrators or governmental or regulatory agencies affecting the Company or any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

8.1.10 Environmental Matters. The Company will promptly give to the Lenders notice in writing of any complaint, order citation, notice or other written communication from any Person with respect to, or if the Company becomes aware after due inquiry of, (i) the existence or alleged existence of a violation of any applicable Environmental Law or Environmental Liability at, upon, under or within any property now or previously owned, leased, operated or used by the Company or any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries or any part thereof, or due to the operations or activities of the Company, any Consolidated Subsidiary on or in connection with such property or any part thereof (including receipt by the Company or any Consolidated Subsidiary of any notice of the happening of any event involving the Release of a reportable quantity under any applicable Environmental Law or cleanup of any Hazardous Substance), (ii) any Release on such property or any part thereof in a quantity that is reportable under any applicable Environmental Law, (iii) the commencement of any cleanup pursuant to or in accordance with any applicable Environmental Law or any Hazardous

 

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Substances on or about such property or any part thereof and (iv) any pending or threatened proceeding for the termination, suspension or non-renewal of any permit required under any applicable Environmental Law, in each case which individually or in the aggregate could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

8.1.11 Anti-Terrorism Laws; International Trade Law Compliance. (a) No Covered Person will become a Sanctioned Person, (b) no Covered Person, either in its own right or through any third party, will (A) have any of its assets in a Sanctioned Country in violation in any material respect of any Anti-Terrorism Law or in the possession, custody or control of a Sanctioned Person in violation in any material respect of any Anti-Terrorism Law; (B) do business in or with, or derive any of its income from investments in or transactions with, any Sanctioned Country or Sanctioned Person in violation in any material respect of any Anti-Terrorism Law; (C) engage in any dealings or transactions prohibited by any Anti-Terrorism Law, (D) use the Loans to fund any operations in, finance any investments or activities in, or, make any payments to, a Sanctioned Country or Sanctioned Person in violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law, or (E) use the proceeds of the Loans, directly or indirectly, in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of Anti-Corruption Laws, (c) the funds used to repay the Obligations will not be derived from any activities of the Borrowers or their Subsidiaries that violate Anti-Terrorism Laws in any material respect, (d) each Borrower and each Subsidiary of a Borrower shall comply with all Anti-Terrorism Laws in all material respects, and (e) the Borrowers shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent in writing upon the occurrence of a Reportable Compliance Event.

8.1.12 Certificate of Beneficial Ownership and Other Additional Information. The Foreign Borrower shall provide to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders: (i) confirmation of the accuracy of the information set forth in the most recent Certificate of Beneficial Ownership provided to the Administrative Agent and Lenders, (ii) a new Certificate of Beneficial Ownership, in form and substance acceptable to Administrative Agent and each Lender, when the individual(s) to be identified as a Beneficial Owner have changed, and (iii) such other information and documentation as may reasonably be requested by Administrative Agent or any Lender from time to time for purposes of compliance by Administrative Agent or such Lender with applicable laws (including without limitation the USA Patriot Act and other “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations), and any policy or procedure implemented by the Administrative Agent or such Lender to comply therewith.

8.2 Negative Covenants.

8.2.1 Negative Pledge. The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries to, create or suffer to exist any Lien upon any property or assets, now owned or hereafter acquired, securing any Indebtedness or other obligation, except Permitted Liens.

 

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8.2.2 Loans and Investments. The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries to, at any time make or suffer to remain outstanding any advances, loans or other extensions of credit or capital contributions (other than prepaid expenses in the ordinary course of business) to (by means of transfers of property or assets or otherwise), or purchase or own any stocks, bonds, notes, debentures or other securities of, any Person (all such transactions being herein referred to as “Investments”), except:

(i) operating deposit accounts;

(ii) investments made under Cash Management Agreements (as defined in the Revolving Credit Agreement);

(iii) Liquid Investments and Cash Equivalents;

(iv) subject to Section 8.2.4 [Affiliate Transactions], Investments in accounts and notes receivable acquired in the ordinary course of business as presently conducted;

(v) Investments existing on the Closing Date in Consolidated Subsidiaries or joint ventures, and Investments after the Closing Date by the Captive Insurance Companies in the ordinary course of its business;

(vi) Investments not otherwise permitted by the foregoing clauses of this Section 8.2.2 [Loans and Investments] in Consolidated Subsidiaries (other than Receivables Subsidiaries) of the Company and in Persons which become Consolidated Subsidiaries of the Company as the result of such Investments;

(vii) Investments not otherwise permitted by the foregoing clauses of this Section 8.2.2 [Loans and Investments] in joint ventures or other unconsolidated Affiliates of the Borrowers and their Consolidated Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount not to exceed, in the aggregate with Investments made under Section 8.2.2.1(ix) below, the greater of (a) $200,000,000 or (b) 15% of Net Worth of the Company;

(viii) Investments comprised of capital contributions, loans or deferred purchase price (whether in the form of cash, a note or other assets) to any Receivables Subsidiary or of residual interests in any trust formed to facilitate any related receivables securitization; and

(ix) Investments not otherwise permitted by the foregoing clauses of this Section 8.2.2 [Loans and Investments] in an aggregate amount not to exceed, together with Investments made under Section 8.2.2.1(vii) above, the greater of (a) $250,000,000 or (b) 15% of Net Worth of the Company.

8.2.3 Liquidations, Mergers, Consolidations. No Borrower shall:

(i) consolidate or merge with or into another Person or consummate any Delaware LLC Division, except that, any Borrower may consolidate or merge with another Person if (A) such Borrower is the entity surviving such merger and (B) immediately after giving effect to such consolidation or merger, no Event of Default or Potential Default shall have occurred and be continuing, or

 

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(ii) sell, lease or otherwise transfer, directly or indirectly, in one transaction or a series of related transactions, all or substantially all of its business or assets; provided that any Borrower other than the Company may sell, lease or transfer all or substantially all of its business or assets to the Company, the Foreign Borrower or any wholly-owned Consolidated Subsidiary of the Company;

provided however, nothing herein shall prevent any of the transactions or events permitted under clauses (i) through (vii) of Section 8.1.1 [Preservation of Existence, Etc.].

8.2.4 Affiliate Transactions. Except as set forth on Schedule 8.2.4 or as otherwise expressly permitted by this Agreement, the Company will not, and will not permit any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly: (i) make any Investment in an Affiliate of the Company (other than a Consolidated Subsidiary of the Company); (ii) transfer, sell, lease, assign or otherwise dispose of (including any disposition to a Delaware Divided LLC pursuant to a Delaware LLC Division) any assets to an Affiliate of the Company (other than a Consolidated Subsidiary of the Company); (iii) merge into or consolidate with or purchase or acquire assets from an Affiliate of the Company (other than a Consolidated Subsidiary of the Company); or (iv) enter into any other transaction directly or indirectly with or for the benefit of an Affiliate of the Company (other than a Consolidated Subsidiary of the Company) (including without limitation, Guaranties and assumptions of obligations of an Affiliate of the Company (other than a Consolidated Subsidiary of the Company)); provided that (a) any Affiliate of the Company who is an individual may serve as a director, officer or employee of the Company and receive reasonable compensation or indemnification in connection with his or her services in such capacity; and (b) any transaction entered into by the Company or a Consolidated Subsidiary of the Company with an Affiliate of the Company which is not a Consolidated Subsidiary of the Company providing for the leasing of property, the rendering or receipt of services or the purchase or sale inventory and other assets in the ordinary course of business must be for a monetary or business consideration which would be substantially as advantageous to the Company or such Consolidated Subsidiary as the monetary or business consideration which would obtain in a comparable arm’s length transaction with a Person not an Affiliate of the Company.

8.2.5 Continuation of or Change in Business. The Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, will not fundamentally and substantively alter the character of their business, taken as a whole, from the business conducted by them on the Closing Date and other business activities that are extensions thereof (including any new product lines or manufacturing or distribution of product lines) or otherwise incidental, reasonably related or ancillary to any of the foregoing.

8.2.6 [Reserved].

8.2.7 Anti-Terrorism Laws. Neither the Company nor any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries shall be in violation of any law or regulation or appear on any list of any government agency (including, without limitation, the U.S. Office of Foreign Asset Control list, Executive Order No. 13224 or the USA Patriot Act) that prohibits or limits the conduct of business with or the receiving of funds, goods, or services to or for the benefit of certain Persons specified therein or that prohibits or limits any Lender from making any advance or extension of credit to any Borrower.

 

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8.2.8 Maximum Leverage Ratio. The Company will not permit the Net Leverage Ratio, as calculated at the end of each fiscal quarter ending after the Closing Date, to be greater than 3.75 to 1.00; provided, however, that with respect to any acquisition for which the aggregate consideration is $100,000,000 or greater (a “Material Acquisition”), and upon written request by the Company delivered to the Administrative Agent no later than 30 days following the consummation of such Material Acquisition, the Net Leverage Ratio shall increase to 4.25 to 1.00 as calculated at the end of the four fiscal quarters following such Material Acquisition (each such period of time being an “Increased Net Leverage Ratio Period”); provided, further, that there shall be at least four fiscal quarters in which the Leverage Ratio does not exceed 3.75 to 1.00 between any two Increased Net Leverage Ratio Periods.

8.2.9 Minimum Interest Coverage Ratio. The Company shall not permit the ratio, calculated as of the end of each fiscal quarter ending after the Closing Date for the four fiscal quarters then most recently ended, of EBITDA for such period to Interest Expense for such period to be less than 3.50 to 1.00.

8.3 Reporting Requirements. The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders:

8.3.1 Quarterly Financial Statements. As soon as available and in any event within forty-five (45) calendar days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters in each fiscal year, financial statements of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, consisting of a consolidated and consolidating balance sheet as of the end of such fiscal quarter and related consolidated and consolidating statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for the fiscal quarter then ended and the fiscal year through that date, all in reasonable detail and certified (subject to normal year-end audit adjustments and footnotes) by the Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Controller, Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer of the Company as having been prepared in accordance with GAAP, consistently applied, and setting forth in comparative form the respective financial statements for the corresponding date and period in the previous fiscal year. The Borrowers will be deemed to have complied with the delivery requirements of this Section 8.3.1 [Quarterly Financial Statements] if within forty-five (45) days (or any such earlier date as may be mandated by the Securities and Exchange Commission) after the end of its fiscal quarter, the Company delivers to the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders a copy of its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the financial statements contained therein meet the requirements described in this Section 8.3.1 [Quarterly Financial Statements].

8.3.2 Annual Financial Statements. As soon as available and in any event within ninety (90) days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, financial statements of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries consisting of a consolidated and consolidating balance sheet as of the end of such fiscal year, and related consolidated and consolidating statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for the fiscal year then ended, all in reasonable detail and setting forth in comparative form the financial statements as of the end of and for the preceding fiscal year, and certified by independent certified public accountants of nationally recognized standing satisfactory to the

 

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Administrative Agent. The certificate or report of accountants shall be free of qualifications (other than any consistency qualification that may result from a change in the method used to prepare the financial statements as to which such accountants concur) and shall not indicate the occurrence or existence of any event, condition or contingency which would materially impair the prospect of payment or performance of any covenant, agreement or duty of any Borrower under any of the Loan Documents. The Borrowers will be deemed to have complied with the delivery requirements of this Section 8.3.2 [Annual Financial Statements] if within ninety (90) days (or any such earlier date as may be mandated by the Securities and Exchange Commission) after the end of its fiscal year, the Company delivers to the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders a copy of its Annual Report on Form 10-K as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the financial statements and certification of public accountants contained therein meet the requirements described in this Section 8.3.2 [Annual Financial Statements].

8.3.3 Certificate of the Company. Concurrently with the financial statements of the Company furnished to the Administrative Agent and to the Lenders pursuant to Sections 8.3.1 [Quarterly Financial Statements] and 8.3.2 [Annual Financial Statements], a certificate (each a “Compliance Certificate”) of the Company signed by a Senior Officer, in the form of Exhibit 8.3.3.

8.3.4 Notices.

8.3.4.1 Default. Promptly (and in any event within three (3) Business Days) after any Senior Officer of the Company has learned of the occurrence of an Event of Default or Potential Default, a certificate signed by an Authorized Officer setting forth the details of such Event of Default or Potential Default and the action which the Company proposes to take with respect thereto.

8.3.4.2 Litigation. Promptly after the commencement thereof, notice of all actions, suits, legal or arbitral proceedings or investigations before or by any governmental or regulatory authority or agency or any other Person against any Borrower or Consolidated Subsidiary which if adversely determined could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

8.3.4.3 Financial Statements. Promptly upon the mailing thereof to the shareholders of the Company generally, copies of all financial statements, reports and proxy statements so mailed.

8.3.4.4 [Reserved].

8.3.4.5 Registration Statements. Promptly upon the filing thereof, copies of all registration statements (other than any registration statements on Form S-8 or its equivalent) and any report which the Company shall have filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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8.3.4.7 Change in Rating. Promptly after a Senior Officer of the Company knows of a change in the ratings accorded to the Company by Fitch, Standard & Poor’s and/or Moody’s or in the outlook with respect thereto, a notice of such change in the rating.

8.3.4.8 Other Information. From time to time such other information regarding the financial condition, operations, prospects of business of the Company or any Borrower as the Administrative Agent or any Lender through the Administrative Agent may reasonably request.

9. DEFAULT

9.1 Events of Default. An Event of Default shall mean the occurrence or existence of any one or more of the following events or conditions (whatever the reason therefor and whether voluntary, involuntary or effected by operation of Law):

9.1.1 Payments Under Loan Documents. The Borrowers shall fail to pay (i) any principal of any Loan (including scheduled installments, mandatory prepayments or the payment due at maturity) or Obligation after such principal or Obligation becomes due in accordance with the terms hereof or thereof or (ii) shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan or any other amount owing hereunder or under the other Loan Documents within five (5) Business Days after the date on which such interest or other amount becomes due in accordance with the terms hereof or thereof;

9.1.2 Breach of Warranty. Any representation or warranty made at any time by any of the Borrowers herein or by any of the Borrowers in any other Loan Document, or in any certificate, other instrument or statement furnished pursuant to the provisions hereof or thereof, shall prove to have been false or misleading in any material respect as of the time it was made or furnished;

9.1.3 Breach of Specified Covenants, Visitation Rights, or Anti-Terrorism Laws. Any of the Borrowers shall default in the observance or performance of any covenant contained in Section 8.1.11 [Anti-Terrorism Laws; International Trade Law Compliance], Section 8.2.1 [Liens; Lien Covenants], Section 8.2.2 [Loans and Investments], Section 8.2.3 [Liquidations, Mergers, Consolidations], Section 8.2.7 [Anti-Terrorism Laws], Section 8.2.8 [Maximum Leverage Ratio], Section 8.2.9 [Minimum Interest Coverage Ratio], Section 8.3.2 [Annual Financial Statements], or Section 8.3.4.1 [Default];

9.1.4 Breach of Other Covenants. Any of the Borrowers shall default in the observance or performance of any other covenant, condition or provision hereof or of any other Loan Document and such default shall continue unremedied for a period of thirty (30) days after notice thereof to the Company by the Administrative Agent or any Lender (through the Administrative Agent);

9.1.5 Defaults in Other Material Indebtedness.

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9.1.5.2 A default or event of default shall occur at any time if the Company or any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries shall default in the payment when due of any principal of or interest on Indebtedness having an aggregate outstanding principal amount of at least $150,000,000 (other than the Loans); or any event or condition shall occur which results in the acceleration of the maturity of any such Indebtedness or enables (or, with the giving of notice or lapse of time or both, would enable) the holder of any such Indebtedness or any Person acting on such holder’s behalf to accelerate the maturity thereof;

9.1.6 Final Judgments or Orders. Any final judgments or orders for the payment of money shall be rendered by a court or courts against the Company or any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries in excess of $150,000,000 in the aggregate (excluding any amount of such judgment as to which an Acceptable Insurer has not disclaimed liability), and the same shall not be discharged (or provision shall not be made for such discharge), or a stay of execution thereof shall not be procured, within 45 days from the date of entry thereof, or the Company or such Consolidated Subsidiary shall not, within said period of 45 days, or such longer period during which execution of the same shall have been stayed, appeal therefrom and cause the execution thereof to be stayed during such appeal;

9.1.7 Inability to Pay Debts. The Company, the Foreign Borrower or any of the Company’s Significant Subsidiaries shall admit in writing its inability to, or be generally unable to, pay its debts as such debts become due;

9.1.8 Loan Document Unenforceable. Any of the Loan Documents shall cease to be legal, valid and binding agreements enforceable against the party executing the same or such party’s successors and assigns (as permitted under the Loan Documents) in accordance with the respective terms thereof or shall in any way be terminated (except in accordance with its terms) or become or be declared ineffective or inoperative or shall in any way be challenged or contested or cease to give or provide the respective Liens, security interests, rights, titles, interests, remedies, powers or privileges intended to be created thereby, except to the extent that the enforceability thereof may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws generally affecting creditors’ rights and by equitable principles (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in equity or at law);

9.1.9 Events Relating to Plans and Benefit Arrangements. An ERISA Event occurs with respect to a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan which has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in liability of any Borrower under Title IV of ERISA to the Pension Plan, Multiemployer Plan or the PBGC in an aggregate amount in excess of $150,000,000;

9.1.10 Change of Control. (i) Any person or group of persons (within the meaning of Sections 13(d) or 14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) shall have acquired beneficial ownership of (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission under said Act) 35% or more of the voting capital stock of the Company; or (ii) individuals who on the Closing Date constituted the board of directors of the Company, together with any new directors whose election by the board of directors or whose nomination for election by the equity holders of the Company was approved by a majority of the directors then still in office who were either directors or whose election or nomination for election was previously so approved, cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the board of directors of Company then in office; and

 

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9.1.11 Relief Proceedings. (i) A Relief Proceeding shall have been instituted against the Company, the Foreign Borrower, or any of the Company’s Significant Subsidiaries and such Relief Proceeding shall remain undismissed or unstayed and in effect for a period of sixty (60) consecutive days or such court shall enter a decree or order granting any of the relief sought in such Relief Proceeding, (ii) the Company, the Foreign Borrower, or any of the Company’s Significant Subsidiaries institutes, or takes any action in furtherance of, a Relief Proceeding, or (iii) the Company, the Foreign Borrower, or any of the Company’s Significant Subsidiaries ceases to be solvent or admits in writing its inability to pay its debts as they mature.

9.2 Consequences of Event of Default.

9.2.1 Events of Default Other Than Bankruptcy, Insolvency or Reorganization Proceedings. If an Event of Default specified under Sections 9.1.1 through 9.1.10 shall occur and be continuing, the Lenders and the Administrative Agent shall be under no further obligation to make Loans and the Administrative Agent may, and upon the request of the Required Lenders, shall by written notice to the Borrowers, declare the unpaid principal amount of the Loans then outstanding and all interest accrued thereon, any unpaid fees and all other Indebtedness of the Borrowers to the Lenders hereunder and thereunder to be forthwith due and payable, and the same shall thereupon become and be immediately due and payable to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of each Lender without presentment, demand, protest or any other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived; and

9.2.2 Bankruptcy, Insolvency or Reorganization Proceedings. If an Event of Default specified under Section 9.1.11 [Relief Proceedings] shall occur, the Lenders shall be under no further obligations to make Loans hereunder and the unpaid principal amount of the Loans then outstanding and all interest accrued thereon, any unpaid fees and all other Indebtedness of the Borrowers to the Lenders hereunder and thereunder shall be immediately due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived; and

9.2.3 Set-off. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Lender, and each of their respective Affiliates and any participant of such Lender or Affiliate which has agreed in writing to be bound by the provisions of Section 5.3 [Sharing of Payments by Lenders] is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final, in whatever currency) at any time held and other obligations (in whatever currency) at any time owing by such Lender or any such Affiliate or participant to or for the credit or the account of any Borrower against any and all of the Obligations of such Borrower now or hereafter existing under this Agreement or any other Loan Document to such Lender, Affiliate or participant, irrespective of whether or not such Lender, Affiliate or participant shall have made any demand under this Agreement or any other Loan Document and although such Obligations of the Borrowers or such Borrower may be

 

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contingent or unmatured or are owed to a branch or office of such Lender different from the branch or office holding such deposit or obligated on such Indebtedness. The rights of each Lender and their respective Affiliates and participants under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that such Lender or their respective Affiliates and participants may have. Each Lender agrees to notify the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent promptly after any such setoff and application; provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application; and

9.2.4 Enforcement of Rights and Remedies. 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 Borrowers 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 this Section 9.2 for the benefit of all the Lenders; provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit (a) the Administrative Agent from exercising 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, (b) [reserved], (c) any Lender from exercising setoff rights in accordance with Section 9.2.3 [Set-off] (subject to the terms of Section 5.3 [Sharing of Payments by Lenders]), or (d) any Lender from filing proofs of claim or appearing and filing pleadings on its own behalf during the pendency of a proceeding relative to any Borrower under any Insolvency Proceeding; and provided, further, that if at any time there is no Person acting as Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, then (i) the Required Lenders shall have the rights otherwise ascribed to the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 9.2.4, and (ii) in addition to the matters set forth in clauses (c) and (d) of the preceding proviso and subject to Section 5.3 [Sharing of Payments by Lenders], any Lender may, with the consent of the Required Lenders, enforce any rights and remedies available to it and as authorized by the Required Lenders; and

9.2.5 Application of Proceeds. From and after the date on which the Administrative Agent has taken any action pursuant to this Section 9.2 [Consequences of Event of Default] and until all Obligations of the Borrowers have been Paid in Full, any and all proceeds received by the Administrative Agent or any Lender shall, unless otherwise required by the terms of the other Loan Documents or by applicable law, be applied as follows:

(i) first, to reimburse the Administrative Agent and the Lenders for out-of-pocket costs, expenses and disbursements, including reasonable attorneys’ and paralegals’ fees and legal expenses, incurred by the Administrative Agent or the Lenders in connection with the collection of any Obligations of any of the Borrowers under any of the Loan Documents;

(ii) second, to the repayment of all Obligations then due and unpaid of the Borrowers to the Lenders or their Affiliates incurred under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, ratably among the Lenders in proportion to the respective amounts payable to them with respect to such Obligations; and

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10. THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT

10.1 Appointment and Authority. Each of the Lenders hereby irrevocably appoints PNC to act on its behalf as the Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof or thereof, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The provisions of this Section 10 [The Administrative Agent] are solely for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and neither the Borrowers nor the Foreign Borrower shall have rights as a third party beneficiary of any of such provisions.

10.2 Rights as a Lender. The Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent and the term “Lender” or “Lenders” shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated or unless the context otherwise requires, include the Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder in its individual capacity. Such Person and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, act as the financial advisor or in any other advisory capacity for and generally engage in any kind of business with the Borrowers or any Consolidated Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof as if such Person were not the Administrative Agent hereunder and without any duty to account therefor to the Lenders.

10.3 Exculpatory Provisions. The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent:

(a) shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Potential Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing;

(b) shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated hereby or by the other Loan Documents that the Administrative Agent is required to exercise as directed in writing by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be expressly provided for herein or in the other Loan Documents); provided that the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action that, in its opinion or the opinion of its counsel, may expose the Administrative Agent to liability or that is contrary to any Loan Document or applicable Law; and

(c) shall not, except as expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents, have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to the Borrowers or any of their Affiliates that is communicated to or obtained by the Person serving as the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity.

The Administrative Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it (i) with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, or as the Administrative Agent shall believe in good faith shall be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in Sections 12.1

 

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[Modifications, Amendments or Waivers] and 9.2 [Consequences of Event of Default]) or (ii) in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Potential Default or Event of Default unless and until notice describing such Potential Default or Event of Default is given to the Administrative Agent by the Borrowers or a Lender.

The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered hereunder or thereunder or in connection herewith or therewith, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth herein or therein or the occurrence of any Potential Default or Event of Default, (iv) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document or (v) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Section 7 [Conditions of Lending] or elsewhere herein, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent.

10.4 Reliance by Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing (including any electronic message, Internet or intranet website posting or other distribution) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or otherwise authenticated by the proper Person. The Administrative Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to have been made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. In determining compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of a Loan that by its terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a Lender, the Administrative Agent may presume that such condition is satisfactory to such Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice to the contrary from such Lender prior to the making of such Loan. The Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Borrowers), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.

10.5 Delegation of Duties. The Administrative Agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers hereunder or under any other Loan Document by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of this Section 10 [The Administrative Agent] shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of the Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Administrative Agent.

10.6 Resignation of Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent may at any time give notice of its resignation to the Lenders and the Borrowers. Upon receipt of any such notice of resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right, with approval from the Borrowers (so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing), to appoint a successor, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed. If no such successor shall have been so

 

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appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within thirty (30) days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring Administrative Agent may on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Administrative Agent; provided that if the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrowers and the Lenders that no qualifying Person has accepted such appointment, then such resignation shall nonetheless become effective in accordance with such notice and (i) the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (except that in the case of any collateral security held by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders under any of the Loan Documents, the retiring Administrative Agent shall continue to hold such collateral security until such time as a successor Administrative Agent is appointed) and (ii) all payments, communications and determinations provided to be made by, to or through the Administrative Agent shall instead be made by or to each Lender directly, until such time as the Required Lenders appoint a successor Administrative Agent as provided for above in this Section 10.6 [Resignation of Administrative Agent]. Upon the acceptance of a successor’s appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring (or retired) Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from all of its duties and obligations hereunder or under the other Loan Documents (if not already discharged therefrom as provided above in this Section). The fees payable by the Borrowers to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Borrowers and such successor. After the retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, the provisions of this Section 10 [The Administrative Agent] and Section 12.3 [Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver] shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Administrative Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while the retiring Administrative Agent was acting as Administrative Agent.

10.7 Removal of Administrative Agent. If the Person serving as Administrative Agent is a Defaulting Lender, the Required Lenders may, to the extent permitted by applicable law, by notice in writing to the Borrowers and such Person remove such Person as Administrative Agent and, in consultation with the Borrowers, appoint a successor. If no such successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days (or such earlier day as shall be agreed by the Required Lenders) (the “Removal Effective Date”), then such removal shall nonetheless become effective in accordance with such notice on the Removal Effective Date.

10.8 Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders. Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder.

 

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10.9 No Other Duties, etc. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, none of the Lenders, the Sole Lead Arranger, the Sole Bookrunner, or other parties listed on the cover page hereof shall have any powers, duties or responsibilities under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, except in its capacity, as applicable, as the Administrative Agent, a Lender hereunder.

10.10 [Reserved].

10.11 Administrative Agent’s Fee. The Borrowers shall pay to the Administrative Agent a nonrefundable fee (the “Administrative Agents Fee”) under the terms of a letter (the “Administrative Agents Letter”) among the Borrowers and Administrative Agent, as amended from time to time.

10.12 No Reliance on Administrative Agents Customer Identification Program. Each Lender acknowledges and agrees that neither such Lender, nor any of its Affiliates, participants or assignees, may rely on the Administrative Agent to carry out such Lender’s, Affiliate’s, participant’s or assignee’s customer identification program, or other obligations required or imposed under or pursuant to the USA Patriot Act or the regulations thereunder, including the regulations contained in 31 C.F.R. § 103.121 (as hereafter amended or replaced, the “CIP Regulations”), or any other Anti-Terrorism Law, including any programs involving any of the following items relating to or in connection with any of the Borrowers, their Affiliates or their agents, the Loan Documents or the transactions hereunder or contemplated hereby: (i) any identity verification procedures, (ii) any recordkeeping, (iii) comparisons with government lists, (iv) customer notices or (v) other procedures required under the CIP Regulations or such other Laws.

11. GUARANTY

11.1 Guaranty by the Company. The Company hereby irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees, for the benefit of the Benefited Creditors, all of the following (collectively, the “Company Guaranteed Obligations”): the principal of and interest on the Notes issued by, and the Loans made to, and the other Obligations of, the Foreign Borrower under this Agreement, in all cases, whether now existing, or hereafter incurred or arising, including any such interest or other amounts incurred or arising during the pendency of any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership or similar proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding or subject to an automatic stay under Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code. Upon failure by the Foreign Borrower to pay punctually any of the Company Guaranteed Obligations, the Company shall forthwith on demand by the Administrative Agent pay the amount not so paid at the place and in the currency and otherwise in the manner specified in this Agreement or any other applicable agreement or instrument. For the avoidance of doubt, this is a guaranty of payment and not just of collection.

11.2 Additional Undertaking. As a separate, additional and continuing obligation, the Company unconditionally and irrevocably undertakes and agrees, for the benefit of the Benefited Creditors that, should any amounts not be recoverable from the Company under Section 11.1 [Guaranty by the Company] for any reason whatsoever (including, without limitation, by reason of any provision of any Loan Document or any other agreement or instrument executed in

 

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connection therewith being or becoming void, unenforceable, or otherwise invalid under any applicable law) then, notwithstanding any notice or knowledge thereof by any Lender, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Affiliates, or any other Person, at any time, the Company as sole, original and independent obligor, upon demand by the Administrative Agent, will make payment to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Benefited Creditors, of all such obligations not so recoverable by way of full indemnity, in such currency and otherwise in such manner as is provided in the Loan Documents or any other applicable agreement or instrument.

11.3 Guaranty Unconditional. The obligations of the Company under this Section 11 [Guaranty] shall be unconditional and absolute and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, shall not be released, discharged or otherwise affected by the occurrence, one or more times, of any of the following:

11.3.1 any extension, renewal, settlement, compromise, waiver or release in respect to any Company Guaranteed Obligation under any agreement or instrument, by operation of law or otherwise;

11.3.2 any modification or amendment of or supplement to this Agreement, any Note, any other Loan Document, or any agreement or instrument evidencing or relating to any Company Guaranteed Obligation;

11.3.3 any release, non-perfection or invalidity of any direct or indirect security for any Company Guaranteed Obligation under any agreement or instrument evidencing or relating to any Company Guaranteed Obligation;

11.3.4 any change in the corporate or limited liability company existence, structure or ownership of the Foreign Borrower or other Consolidated Subsidiary or any insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or other similar proceeding affecting the Foreign Borrower or other Consolidated Subsidiary or its assets or any resulting release or discharge of any obligation of the Foreign Borrower or other Consolidated Subsidiary contained in any agreement or instrument evidencing or relating to any Company Guaranteed Obligation;

11.3.5 the existence of any claim, set-off or other rights which the Company may have at any time against the Foreign Borrower, the Administrative Agent, any Lender, any Affiliate of any Lender or any other person, whether in connection herewith or any unrelated transactions;

11.3.6 any invalidity or unenforceability relating to or against the Foreign Borrower for any reason of any agreement or instrument evidencing or relating to any Company Guaranteed Obligation, or any provision of applicable law or regulation purporting to prohibit the payment by the Foreign Borrower of any of the Company Guaranteed Obligations; or

11.3.7 any other act or omission of any kind by the Foreign Borrower, the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any other Person or any other circumstance whatsoever which might, but for the provisions of this Section, constitute a legal or equitable discharge of the Company’s obligations under this Section other than the irrevocable payment in full of all Company Guaranteed Obligations and the termination of the Commitments hereunder.

 

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11.4 Company Obligations to Remain in Effect; Restoration. The Company’s obligations under this Section shall remain in full force and effect until the indefeasible payment in full of all of the Obligations and the termination of the Commitments hereunder, and the principal of and interest on the Notes and other Company Guaranteed Obligations, and all other amounts payable by the Company, the Foreign Borrower or other Consolidated Subsidiary, under the Loan Documents or any other agreement or instrument evidencing or relating to any of the Company Guaranteed Obligations, shall have been paid in full. If at any time any payment of any of the Company Guaranteed Obligations is rescinded or must be otherwise restored or returned upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of the Foreign Borrower, the Company’s obligations under this Section 11 [Guaranty] with respect to such payment shall be reinstated at such time as though such payment had been due but not made at such time.

11.5 Waiver of Acceptance, etc. The Company irrevocably waives acceptance hereof, presentment, demand, protest and any notice not provided for herein, as well as any requirement that at any time any action be taken by any person against the Foreign Borrower or any other Person, or against any collateral or guaranty of any other Person.

11.6 Subrogation. Until the indefeasible payment in full of all of the Obligations and the termination of the Commitments hereunder, the Company shall have no rights, by operation of law or otherwise, upon making any payment under this Section 11 [Guaranty] to be subrogated to the rights of the payee against the Foreign Borrower with respect to such payment or otherwise to be reimbursed, indemnified or exonerated by the Foreign Borrower in respect thereof.

11.7 Effect of Stay. In the event that acceleration of the time for payment of any amount payable by the Foreign Borrower under any Company Guaranteed Obligation is stayed upon insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of the Foreign Borrower, all such amounts otherwise subject to acceleration under the terms of any applicable agreement or instrument evidencing or relating to any Company Guaranteed Obligation shall nonetheless be payable by the Company under this Section 11 [Guaranty] forthwith on demand by the Administrative Agent.

12. MISCELLANEOUS

12.1 Modifications, Amendments or Waivers. With the written consent of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent, acting on behalf of all the Lenders, and the Borrowers may from time to time enter into written agreements amending or changing any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the rights of the Lenders or the Borrowers hereunder or thereunder, or may grant written waivers or consents hereunder or thereunder. Any such agreement, waiver or consent made with such written consent shall be effective to bind all the Lenders and the Borrowers; provided, that no such agreement, waiver or consent may be made which will:

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12.1.2 Extension of Payment; Reduction of Principal Interest or Fees; Modification of Terms of Payment. Whether or not any Loans are outstanding, extend the Maturity Date or the time for payment of principal or interest of any Loan (excluding the due date of any mandatory prepayment of a Loan), any fee payable to any Lender, or reduce the principal amount of or the rate of interest borne by any Loan (other than as a result of waiving the applicability of any post-default increase in interest rates) or reduce any fee payable to any Lender, without the consent of each Lender directly affected thereby;

12.1.3 Release of Companys Guaranty. Release the Company from its Obligations under Section 11 [Guaranty] hereof without the consent of all Lenders (other than Defaulting Lenders); or

12.1.4 Miscellaneous. Amend Section 5.2 [Pro Rata Treatment of Lenders], 10.3 [Exculpatory Provisions], 5.3 [Sharing of Payments by Lenders], or 9.2.5 [Application of Proceeds] or this Section 12.1 [Modifications, Amendments or Waivers], alter any provision regarding the pro rata treatment of the Lenders or requiring all Lenders to authorize the taking of any action or reduce any percentage specified in the definition of Required Lenders, in each case without the consent of all of the Lenders (other than Defaulting Lenders);

provided that no agreement, waiver or consent which would modify the interests, rights or obligations of the Administrative Agent may be made without the written consent of such Administrative Agent, and provided, further that, if in connection with any proposed waiver, amendment or modification referred to in Sections 12.1.1 through 12.1.4 above, the consent of the Required Lenders is obtained but the consent of one or more of such other Lenders whose consent is required is not obtained (each a “Non-Consenting Lender”), then the Borrowers shall have the right to replace any such Non-Consenting Lender with one or more replacement Lenders pursuant to Section 5.6.2 [Replacement of a Lender]. 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 any Defaulting Lender may not be increased or extended without the consent of such Lender, and (y) any waiver, amendment or modification requiring the consent of all Lenders or each affected Lender that by its terms affects any Defaulting Lender disproportionately adversely relative to other affected Lenders shall require the consent of such Defaulting Lender.

12.2 No Implied Waivers; Cumulative Remedies. No course of dealing and no delay or failure of the Administrative Agent or any Lender in exercising any right, power, remedy or privilege under this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall affect any other or future exercise thereof or operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise thereof preclude any further exercise thereof or of any other right, power, remedy or privilege. The enumeration of the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders set forth in

 

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this Agreement is not intended to be exhaustive and the exercise by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders of any right or remedy shall not preclude the exercise of any other rights or remedies, all of which shall be cumulative, and shall be in addition to any other right or remedy given hereunder or under the other Loan Documents or that may now or hereafter exist at law or in equity or by suit or otherwise. No reasonable delay or failure to take action on the part of the Administrative Agent or any Lender in exercising any right, power or privilege shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right, power or privilege preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege or shall be construed to be a waiver of any Event of Default.

12.3 Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver.

12.3.1 Costs and Expenses. The Borrowers shall pay (i) all out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates (including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel for the Administrative Agent), and shall pay all fees and time charges and disbursements for attorneys who may be employees of the Administrative Agent, in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein, the preparation, negotiation, execution, delivery and administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or any amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions hereof or thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated), (ii) [reserved], (iii) all out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent or any Lender (including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for the Administrative Agent or any Lender), and shall pay all fees and time charges for attorneys who may be employees of the Administrative Agent or any Lender, in connection with the enforcement or protection of its rights (A) in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, including its rights under this Section, or (B) in connection with the Loans made hereunder, including all such out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of such Loans, and (iv) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative Agent’s regular employees and agents engaged periodically to perform audits of the Borrowers’ books, records and business properties.

12.3.2 Indemnification by the Borrowers. Subject to Section 12.14 [Foreign Borrower], the Borrowers shall indemnify the Administrative Agent (and any sub-agent thereof), each Lender and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an “Indemnitee”) against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and related expenses (including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Indemnitee), and shall indemnify and hold harmless each Indemnitee from all fees and time charges and disbursements for attorneys who may be employees of any Indemnitee, incurred by any Indemnitee or asserted against any Indemnitee by any third party or by the Borrowers arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the performance or nonperformance by the parties hereto of their respective obligations hereunder or thereunder or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, (ii) any Loan or the use or proposed use of the proceeds therefrom, (iii) breach of representations, warranties or covenants of the Borrowers under the Loan Documents, or (iv) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, including any such items or losses relating to or

 

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arising under Environmental Laws or pertaining to environmental matters, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory, whether brought by a third party or by the Borrowers, and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses (x) are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee or (y) result from a claim brought by the Borrowers against an Indemnitee for breach in bad faith of such Indemnitee’s obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document, if the Borrowers or such Borrower has obtained a final and nonappealable judgment in its favor on such claim as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Foreign Borrower shall only be required to indemnify any Indemnitee pursuant to this Section to the extent that any such losses, liabilities, claims, penalties, damages or expenses have been caused by the Foreign Borrower or are otherwise directly related or attributable to the Foreign Borrower.

12.3.3 Reimbursement by Lenders. To the extent that the Borrowers for any reason fail to indefeasibly pay any amount required under Sections 12.3.1 [Costs and Expenses] or 12.3.2 [Indemnification by the Borrowers] to be paid by it to the Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent thereof) or any Related Party of any of the foregoing, each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent) or such Related Party, as the case may be, such Lender’s Ratable Share (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid amount, provided that the unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage, liability or related expense, as the case may be, (A) was incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent) or against any Related Party of any of the foregoing acting for the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent) in connection with such capacity; and (B) was not determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Administrative Agent or any Related Party of any of the foregoing.

12.3.4 Waiver of Consequential Damages, Etc. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, the Borrowers shall not assert, and each of the Borrowers hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnitee, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, any Loan or the use of the proceeds thereof. No Indemnitee referred to in Section 12.3.2 [Indemnification by the Borrowers] shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by unintended recipients of any information or other materials distributed by it through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby.

12.3.5 Payments. All amounts due under this Section 12.3 [Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver] shall be payable not later than ten (10) days after demand therefor.

 

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12.4 Holidays. Whenever payment of a Loan to be made or taken hereunder shall be due on a day which is not a Business Day such payment shall be due on the next Business Day (except as provided in Section 4.2 [Interest Periods]) and such extension of time shall be included in computing interest and fees, except that the Loans shall be due on the Business Day preceding the Maturity Date if the Maturity Date is not a Business Day. Whenever any payment or action to be made or taken hereunder (other than payment of the Loans) shall be stated to be due on a day which is not a Business Day, such payment or action shall be made or taken on the next following Business Day, and such extension of time shall not be included in computing interest or fees, if any, in connection with such payment or action.

12.5 Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communication.

12.5.1 Notices Generally. Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone (and except as provided in Section 12.5.2 [Electronic Communications]), all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by telecopier (i) if to a Lender, to it at its address set forth in its administrative questionnaire, or (ii) if to any other Person, to it at its address set forth on Schedule 1.1(B).

Notices sent by hand or overnight courier service, or mailed by certified or registered mail, shall be deemed to have been given when received; notices sent by telecopier shall be deemed to have been given when sent (except that, if not given during normal business hours for the recipient, shall be deemed to have been given at the opening of business on the next Business Day for the recipient). Notices delivered through electronic communications to the extent provided in Section 12.5.2 [Electronic Communications], shall be effective as provided in such Section.

12.5.2 Electronic Communications. Notices and other communications to the Lenders hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communication (including e-mail and Internet or intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices to any Lender if such Lender has notified the Administrative Agent that it is incapable of receiving such notices by electronic communication. The Administrative Agent or the Borrowers may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications. Unless the Administrative Agent otherwise prescribes, (i) notices and other communications sent to an e-mail address shall be deemed received upon the sender’s receipt of an acknowledgement from the intended recipient (such as by the “return receipt requested” function, as available, return e-mail or other written acknowledgement); provided that if such notice or other communication is not sent during the normal business hours of the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening of business on the next Business Day for the recipient, and (ii) notices or communications posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be deemed received upon the deemed receipt by the intended recipient at its e-mail address as described in the foregoing clause (i) of notification that such notice or communication is available and identifying the website address therefor.

 

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12.5.3 Change of Address, Etc. Any party hereto may change its address, e-mail address or telecopier number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto.

12.6 Severability. The provisions of this Agreement are intended to be severable. If any provision of this Agreement shall be held invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part in any jurisdiction, such provision shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity or unenforceability without in any manner affecting the validity or enforceability thereof in any other jurisdiction or the remaining provisions hereof in any jurisdiction.

12.7 Duration; Survival. All representations and warranties of the Borrowers contained herein or made in connection herewith shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the completion of the transactions hereunder and Payment In Full. All covenants and agreements of the Borrowers contained herein relating to the payment of principal, interest, premiums, additional compensation or expenses and indemnification, including those set forth in the Notes, Section 5 [Payments] and Section 12.3 [Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver], shall survive Payment In Full. All other covenants and agreements of the Borrowers shall continue in full force and effect from and after the date hereof and until Payment In Full.

12.8 Successors and Assigns.

12.8.1 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 Company nor the Foreign Borrower may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder 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 assignee in accordance with the provisions of Section 12.8.2 [Assignments by Lenders], (ii) by way of participation in accordance with the provisions of Section 12.8.4 [Participations], or (iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest subject to the restrictions of Section 12.8.5 [Certain Pledges; Successors and Assigns Generally] (and 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 Section 12.8.4 [Participations] and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.

12.8.2 Assignments by Lenders. Any Lender may at any time assign to one or more 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 the assigning Lender’s Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it 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, except as set forth in Section 12.8.8 [Netherlands Bank Rules]; and

 

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(B) in any case not described in clause (i)(A) of this Section 12.8.2 [Assignments by Lenders], 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 (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 $5,000,000 of such assigning Lender, unless each of the Administrative Agent and, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Company otherwise consents (each such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).

(ii) Proportionate Amounts. Each partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement with respect to the Loan or the Commitment assigned.

(iii) Required Consents. No consent shall be required for any assignment except for the consent of the Administrative Agent (which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) and the consent of the Company (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) shall be required unless (x) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time of such assignment or (y) such assignment is to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund; provided that each Borrower shall be deemed to have consented to any such assignment unless it has objected thereto by written notice to the Administrative Agent within five (5) Business Days after having received notice thereof.

(iv) Assignment and Assumption Agreement. 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 $3,500.00, and the assignee, if it is not a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an administrative questionnaire provided by the Administrative Agent.

(v) No Assignment to Certain Persons. No such assignment shall be made to (A) a Borrower or any Borrower’s Affiliates or Subsidiaries, or (B) any Defaulting Lender or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Person who, upon becoming a Lender hereunder, would constitute a Defaulting Lender or a Subsidiary thereof.

(vi) No Assignment to Natural Persons. No such assignment shall be made to a natural Person (or a holding company, investment vehicle or trust for, or owned and operated for the primary benefit of, 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

 

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by the assignee of participations or subparticipations, or other compensating actions, including funding, with the consent of the Company and the Administrative Agent, the applicable Ratable 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 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 Ratable Share. 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 Section 12.8.3 [Register], 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 Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto) but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 4.4 [Euro-Rate Unascertainable; Illegality; Increased Costs; Deposits Not Available], 5.8 [Increased Costs], and 12.3 [Expenses, Indemnity; Damage Waiver] with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such assignment. Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this Section 12.8.2 [Assignments by Lenders] 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 Section 12.8.4 [Participations].

12.8.3 Register. The Administrative Agent, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Borrowers, shall maintain a record of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal amounts of the Loans owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time. Such register shall be conclusive, and the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is in such register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. Such register shall be available for inspection by the Borrowers and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.

12.8.4 Participations. Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to any Person (other than a natural person or the Borrowers or any of the Borrowers’ Affiliates or Consolidated Subsidiaries) (each, a “Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s 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 Lender’s 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 Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement.

 

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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 (other than as is already provided for herein) to any amendment, modification or waiver with respect to Sections 12.1.1 [Increase of Commitment], 12.1.2 [Extension of Payment, Etc.], or 12.1.3 [Release of Guarantor] that affects such Participant. The Borrowers agree that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 4.4 [Rates Unascertainable; Illegality; Increased Costs; Deposits Not Available], 5.8 [Increased Costs], 5.10 [Indemnity] and 5.9 [Taxes] (subject to the requirements and limitations therein, including the requirements under Section 5.9.7 [Status of Lenders] (it being understood that the documentation required under Section 5.9.7 [Status of Lenders] 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 Section 12.8.2 [Assignments by Lenders]; provided that such Participant (A) agrees to be subject to the provisions of Section 5.6.2 [Replacement of a Lender] as if it were an assignee under Section 12.8.2 [Assignments by Lenders]; and (B) shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Sections 5.8 [Increased Costs] or 5.9 [Taxes], 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 Change in Law 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 Borrowers to effectuate the provisions of Section 5.6.2 [Replacement of a Lender] and Section 5.6.3 [Designation of a Different Lending Office] with respect to any Participant. To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 9.2.3 [Set-off] as though it were a Lender; provided that such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 5.3 [Sharing of Payments by Lenders] 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 Borrowers, maintain a register, on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant’s 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 Participant’s interest in any commitments, loans, 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, 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.

12.8.5 Certain Pledges; Successors and Assigns Generally. 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.

 

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12.8.6 Limitations upon Participant Rights Successors and Assigns Generally. A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Sections 5.8 [Increased Costs], 5.9 [Taxes] or 12.3 [Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver] than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the participation sold to such Participant, unless the sale of the participation to such Participant is made with the Borrowers’ prior written consent. A Participant that would be a Foreign Lender if it were a Lender shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section 5.9 [Taxes] unless the Borrowers are notified of the participation sold to such Participant and such Participant agrees, for the benefit of the Borrowers, to comply with Section 5.9.5 [Status of Lenders] as though it were a Lender.

12.8.7 [Reserved].

12.8.8 Netherlands Bank Rules. The share of each new Lender located in or organized under the laws of the Netherlands in the Loans and the share of each new Lender hereunder in the Loans to the Foreign Borrower (or its portion in the rights and obligations relating to such Loans transferred by an existing Lender) shall initially be at least the Dollar Equivalent of EUR 100,000 (or such higher amount as may be required at the time of the transfer in order for the new Lender to qualify as a Professional Market Party) or such new Lender shall otherwise qualify as a Professional Market Party, and each such new Lender shall confirm the foregoing on the date on which it becomes a Lender hereunder by execution and delivery of its Assignment and Assumption Agreement in which the new Lender confirms that it is a Professional Market Party.

12.9 Confidentiality.

12.9.1 General. Each of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information, except that Information may be disclosed (i) to its Affiliates and to its and its Affiliates’ respective partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, advisors and other representatives (it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential), (ii) to the extent requested by any regulatory authority purporting to have jurisdiction over it (including any self-regulatory authority, such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners), (iii) to the extent required by applicable Laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process, (iv) to any other party hereto, (v) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or under any other Loan Document or any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder, (vi) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section, to (A) any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement or (B) any actual or prospective counterparty (or its advisors) to any swap or derivative transaction relating to the Borrowers and their obligations, (vii) with the consent of the Borrowers or (viii) to the extent such Information (Y) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section or (Z) becomes available to the

 

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Administrative Agent, any Lender or any of their respective Affiliates on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than the Borrowers. Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in this Section shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information.

12.9.2 Sharing Information With Affiliates of the Lenders. Each Borrower acknowledges that from time to time financial advisory, investment banking and other services may be offered or provided to the Borrowers or one or more of their Affiliates (in connection with this Agreement or otherwise) by any Lender or by one or more Consolidated Subsidiaries or Affiliates of such Lender and each of the Borrowers hereby authorizes each Lender to share any information delivered to such Lender by such Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries pursuant to this Agreement to any such Consolidated Subsidiary or Affiliate subject to the provisions of Section 12.9.1 [General].

12.10 Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness.

12.10.1 Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto in different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and any separate letter agreements with respect to fees payable to the Administrative Agent, constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof including any prior confidentiality agreements and commitments. Except as provided in Section 7 [Conditions of Lending], this Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts hereof that, when taken together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties hereto. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by telecopy or e-mail shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement.

12.11 CHOICE OF LAW; SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; WAIVER OF VENUE; SERVICE OF PROCESS; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.

12.11.1 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be deemed to be a contract under the Laws of the State of Ohio without regard to its conflict of laws principles.

12.11.2 SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION. EACH BORROWER IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY SUBMITS, FOR ITSELF AND ITS PROPERTY, TO THE NONEXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS OF THE U.S. FEDERAL OR OHIO STATE COURT SITTING IN CLEVELAND AND ANY APPELLATE COURT FROM ANY THEREOF, IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT, OR FOR RECOGNITION OR ENFORCEMENT OF ANY JUDGMENT, AND EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY AGREES THAT ALL CLAIMS IN RESPECT OF ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING

 

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MAY BE HEARD AND DETERMINED IN SUCH OHIO STATE COURT OR, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN SUCH FEDERAL COURT. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO AGREES THAT A FINAL JUDGMENT IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE CONCLUSIVE AND MAY BE ENFORCED IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS BY SUIT ON THE JUDGMENT OR IN ANY OTHER MANNER PROVIDED BY LAW. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT OR IN ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL AFFECT ANY RIGHT THAT THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR ANY LENDER MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AGAINST EACH BORROWER OR ITS PROPERTIES IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION.

12.11.3 WAIVER OF VENUE. EACH BORROWER IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY OBJECTION THAT IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT IN ANY COURT REFERRED TO IN THIS SECTION 12.11. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE DEFENSE OF AN INCONVENIENT FORUM TO THE MAINTENANCE OF SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT AND AGREES NOT ASSERT ANY SUCH DEFENSE.

12.11.4 SERVICE OF PROCESS. EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO SERVICE OF PROCESS IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR NOTICES IN SECTION 12.5 [NOTICES; EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION]. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF ANY PARTY HERETO TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.

12.11.5 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PERSON HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PERSON 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 AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.

 

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12.12 USA Patriot Act Notice. Each Lender that is subject to the USA Patriot Act and the Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Lender) hereby notifies Borrowers that pursuant to the requirements of the USA Patriot Act, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Borrowers, which information includes the name and address of Borrowers and other information that will allow such Lender or Administrative Agent, as applicable, to identify the Borrowers in accordance with the USA Patriot Act.

12.13 Borrower Agent. The Foreign Borrower hereby irrevocably appoints the Company as its agent (a) for purposes of requesting, continuing and converting Loans (including all elections of interest rates and currencies), (b) for delivering notices as to prepayments and commitment reductions, (c) for providing consents pursuant to clauses (i) and (iii) of Section 12.8.2 [Assignments by Lenders], and (d) for service of process, it being understood and agreed that receipt by the Company of summons, notice or similar item shall be deemed effective receipt by each of the Borrowers and their respective Subsidiaries. The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely in such matters on all communications delivered by the Company as being delivered on behalf of all Borrowers. The Foreign Borrower hereby irrevocably appoints the Company as its agent to receive the proceeds of any Loans made by the Lenders.

12.14 Foreign Borrower.

12.14.1 Generally. The Obligations of the Foreign Borrower shall be several in nature.

12.14.2 Liability of Foreign Borrower. The parties intend that this Agreement shall in all circumstances be interpreted to provide that the Foreign Borrower is liable only for Loans made to the Foreign Borrower, interest on such Loans, and its ratable share of any of the other Obligations, including, without limitation, general fees, reimbursements, indemnities and charges hereunder and under any other Loan Document that are attributable, or attributed as a ratable share, to it. The liability of the Foreign Borrower for the payment of any of the Obligations or the performance of its covenants, representations and warranties set forth in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be several from but not joint with the Obligations of the Company. Nothing in this Section 12.14 [Foreign Borrower] is intended to limit, nor shall it be deemed to limit, any of the liability of the Company for any of the Obligations, whether in its primary capacity as a Borrower, as a Guarantor, at law or otherwise.

12.14.3 Service of Process on Foreign Borrower. The Foreign Borrower hereby irrevocably appoints the Company to serve as its agent for service of process in all actions brought against the Foreign Borrower in connection with the Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and the Foreign Borrower agrees that service upon the Company in any such proceeding shall be legally binding as service upon the Foreign Company. The Foreign Borrower irrevocably consents to service of process upon the Company as process agent for the Foreign Borrower in the manner provided for notices in Section 12.5 [Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communication]. Nothing in this Agreement will affect the right of any party to this Agreement to serve process in any other manner permitted by Law. The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely in such matters on all communications delivered by the Company as being delivered on behalf of the Foreign Borrower.

 

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12.15 Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs. To the extent that the Loan Documents provide support, through a guarantee or otherwise, for hedge agreements or any other agreement or instrument that is a QFC (such support, “QFC Credit Support” and each such QFC a “Supported QFC”), the parties acknowledge and agree as follows with respect to the resolution power of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (together with the regulations promulgated thereunder, the “U.S. Special Resolution Regimes”) in respect of such Supported QFC and QFC Credit Support (with the provisions below applicable notwithstanding that the Loan Documents and any Supported QFC may in fact be stated to be governed by the laws of the State of New York and/or of the United States or any other state of the United States):

(a) In the event a Covered Entity that is party to a Supported QFC (each, a “Covered Party”) becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, the transfer of such Supported QFC and the benefit of such QFC Credit Support (and any interest and obligation in or under such Supported QFC and such QFC Credit Support, and any rights in property securing such Supported QFC or such QFC Credit Support) from such Covered Party will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if the Supported QFC and such QFC Credit Support (and any such interest, obligation and rights in property) were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States. In the event a Covered Party or a BHC Act Affiliate of a Covered Party becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights under the Loan Documents that might otherwise apply to such Supported QFC or any QFC Credit Support that may be exercised against such Covered Party are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if the Supported QFC and the Loan Documents were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States. Without limitation of the foregoing, it is understood and agreed that rights and remedies of the parties with respect to a Defaulting Lender shall in no event affect the rights of any Covered Party with respect to a Supported QFC or any QFC Credit Support.

(b) As used in this Section 12.15, the following terms have the following meanings:

BHC Act Affiliate” of a party means an “affiliate” (as such term is defined under and interpreted in accordance with 12 U.S.C. 1841(k)) of such party.

Covered Entity” means any of the following:

(i) a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b);

(ii) a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or

(iii) a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b).

Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable.

 

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QFC” has the meaning assigned to the term “qualified financial contract” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 5390(c)(8)(D).

12.16 No Fiduciary or Agency Relationship. The Administrative Agent, each Lender and their Affiliates (collectively, solely for purposes of this paragraph, the “Lender Parties”), may have economic interests that conflict with those of the Borrowers, their Subsidiaries, their stockholders and/or their Affiliates (collectively, solely for purposes of this paragraph, the “Borrower Parties”). Each Borrower agrees that nothing in the Loan Documents or otherwise will be deemed to create an advisory, fiduciary or agency relationship or fiduciary or other implied duty between the Administrative Agent and any Lender, on the one hand, and any Borrower Party, on the other. The Borrowers acknowledge and agree that (i) the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents (including the exercise of rights and remedies hereunder and thereunder) are arm’s-length commercial transactions between the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, on the one hand, and the Borrowers, on the other, and (ii) in connection therewith and with the process leading thereto, (x) neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender has assumed an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of any Borrower Party with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby (or the exercise of rights or remedies with respect thereto) or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether any Lender has advised, is currently advising or will advise any Borrower Party on other matters) or any other obligation to any Borrower Party except the obligations expressly set forth in the Loan Documents and (y) the Administrative Agent and each Lender is acting solely as principal and not as the agent or fiduciary of any Borrower Party, its management, creditors or any other Person. Each Borrower acknowledges and agrees that it has consulted its own legal and financial advisors to the extent it deemed appropriate and that it is responsible for making its own independent judgment with respect to such transactions and the process leading thereto. Each Borrower agrees that it will not claim that any Lender has rendered advisory services of any nature or respect, or owes a fiduciary or similar duty to any Borrower Party, in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto.

12.17 Certain ERISA Matters.

(i) Each Lender (x) represents and warrants, as of the date such Person became a Lender party hereto, to, and (y) covenants, from the date such Person became a Lender party hereto to the date such Person ceases being a Lender party hereto, for the benefit of, the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates, and not, for the avoidance of doubt, to or for the benefit of the Borrowers, that at least one of the following is and will be true:

(A) such Lender is not using “plan assets” (within the meaning of Section 3(42) of ERISA) of one or more Benefit Plans in connection with the Loans, the Commitments or this Agreement,

(B) the transaction exemption set forth in one or more PTEs, such as PTE 84-14 (a class exemption for certain transactions determined by independent qualified professional asset managers), PTE 95-60 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company general accounts), PTE 90-1 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company pooled separate accounts), PTE 91-38 (a class

 

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exemption for certain transactions involving bank collective investment funds) or PTE 96-23 (a class exemption for certain transactions determined by in-house asset managers), is applicable with respect to such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement,

(C) (A) such Lender is an investment fund managed by a “Qualified Professional Asset Manager” (within the meaning of Part VI of PTE 84-14), (B) such Qualified Professional Asset Manager made the investment decision on behalf of such Lender to enter into, participate in, administer and perform the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement, (C) the entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement satisfies the requirements of subsections (b) through (g) of Part I of PTE 84-14 and (D) to the best knowledge of such Lender, the requirements of subsection (a) of Part I of PTE 84-14 are satisfied with respect to such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement, or

(D) such other representation, warranty and covenant as may be agreed in writing between the Administrative Agent, in its sole discretion, and such Lender.

(ii) In addition, unless either subclause (i)(a) in the immediately preceding Section 12.17 is true with respect to a Lender or such Lender has not provided another representation, warranty and covenant as provided in subclause (i)(d) in the immediately preceding Section 12.17, such Lender further (x) represents and warrants, as of the date such Person became a Lender party hereto, to, and (y) covenants, from the date such Person became a Lender party hereto to the date such Person ceases being a Lender party hereto, for the benefit of, the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates, and not, for the avoidance of doubt, to or for the benefit of the Borrowers, that the Administrative Agent is not a fiduciary with respect to the assets of such Lender involved in such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement (including in connection with the reservation or exercise of any rights by the Administrative Agent under this Agreement, any Loan Document or any documents related to hereto or thereto).

12.18 Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-in of Affected Financial Institution. 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.

[SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW]

 

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[SIGNATURE PAGE TO CREDIT AGREEMENT]

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

 

BORROWERS:
RPM INTERNATIONAL INC.
By:   /s/ Russell L. Gordon
Name:   Russell L. Gordon
Title:   Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

RPM NEW HORIZONS NETHERLANDS B.V.
By:   /s/ Hilde Maria Eleonora De Backer
Name:   Hilde Maria Eleonora De Backer
Title:   Managing Director (directeur) and Authorised Signatory


[SIGNATURE PAGE TO CREDIT AGREEMENT]

 

PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
individually and as Administrative Agent
By:   /s/ Scott A. Nolan
Name:   Scott A. Nolan
Title:   Vice President


[SIGNATURE PAGE TO CREDIT AGREEMENT]

 

BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
By:   /s/ Brandon Weiss
Name:   Brandon Weiss
Title:   Vice President


[SIGNATURE PAGE TO CREDIT AGREEMENT]

 

FIFTH THIRD BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By:   /s/ Will Batchelor
Name:   Will Batchelor
Title:   Vice President


[SIGNATURE PAGE TO CREDIT AGREEMENT]

 

MUFG BANK, LTD.
By:   /s/ Mark Maloney
Name:   Mark Maloney
Title:   Authorized Signatory


[SIGNATURE PAGE TO CREDIT AGREEMENT]

 

WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
By:   /s/ Jonathan D. Beck
Name:   Jonathan D. Beck
Title:   Vice President


SCHEDULE 1.1(A)

PRICING GRID

 

     Debt Rating    Euro-Rate
Spread
   Base Rate
Spread

Tier I

   A-/
A3 or higher
   75.0 bps    0.0 bps

Tier II

   BBB+/ Baa1    87.5 bps    0.0 bps

Tier III

   BBB/ Baa2    100.0 bps    0.0 bps

Tier IV

   BBB-/ Baa3    112.5 bps    12.5 bps

Tier V

   BB+/ Ba1    125.0 bps    25.0 bps

Tier VI

   <BB+/ Ba1    150.0 bps    50.0 bps

The Applicable Margin shall be determined on the Closing Date based on Tier III.


SCHEDULE 1.1(B)

COMMITMENTS OF LENDERS AND ADDRESSES FOR NOTICES

Part 1—Commitments of Lenders and Addresses for Notices to Lenders

 

Lender

   Amount of
Commitment

for Domestic
Term Loan
     Amount of
Commitment for
Foreign Term
Loan
     Ratable Share  

Name: PNC Bank, National Association

Address: 1900 East 9th Street

Locator B7-YB13-34-3

Cleveland, Ohio 44114

Attention: Spencer Dieken

   $ 75,000,000.00      $ 25,000,000.00        25.000000000

Name: Bank of America, N.A.

Address: One Bryant Park, 18th

Floor, New York, NY 10036

Attention: Brandon Weiss

   $ 56,250,000.00      $ 18,750,000.00        18.750000000

Name: Fifth Third Bank, National Association

Address: 201 North Tryon Street,

Charlotte, NC 28202

Attention: William Batchelor

   $ 56,250,000.00      $ 18,750,000.00        18.750000000

Name: MUFG Bank, Ltd.

Address: 227 West Monroe, Suite

1550, Chicago, IL 60606

Attention: Mark Maloney

   $ 56,250,000.00      $ 18,750,000.00        18.750000000


Lender

   Amount of
Commitment

for Domestic
Term Loan
     Amount of
Commitment for
Foreign Term
Loan
     Ratable Share  

Name: Wells Fargo Bank, National Association

Address: 550 S Tryon Street, 3rd

Floor, Charlotte, NC ###-###-####

Attention: Jonathan Beck

   $ 56,250,000.00      $ 18,750,000.00        18.750000000

Total

   $ 300,000,000.00      $ 100,000,000.00        100


SCHEDULE 1.1(B)

COMMITMENTS OF LENDERS AND ADDRESSES FOR NOTICES

ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT

Name: PNC Bank, National Association

Address: 1900 East 9th Street

Locator B7-YB13-34-3

Cleveland, Ohio 44114

Attention: Spencer Dieken

With a Copy To:

Agency Services, PNC Bank, National Association

Mail Stop: P7-PFSC-04-I

Address: 500 First Avenue

Pittsburgh, PA 15219

Attention:      Agency Services

And a Copy To:

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

Union Trust Building

501 Grant Street, Suite 200

Pittsburgh, PA ###-###-####

Part 2—Addresses for Notices to Borrowers:

BORROWERS:

c/o RPM International Inc.

2628 Pearl Road

P.O. Box 777

Medina, Ohio 44258


EXHIBIT 1.1(A)

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 [Insert name of Assignor] (the “Assignor”) and [Insert name of Assignee] (the “Assignee”). Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement identified below (as the same may be amended, restated, modified, or supplemented, the “Credit Agreement”), receipt of a copy of which is hereby acknowledged by the Assignee. 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 Assignor hereby irrevocably sells and assigns to the Assignee, and the Assignee hereby irrevocably purchases and assumes from the Assignor, 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 Assignor’s rights and obligations in its capacity as a Lender 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 under the respective facilities identified below (including, without limitation, any Letters of Credit and guarantees included in such facilities), and (ii) to the extent permitted to be assigned under applicable law, all claims, suits, causes of action and any other right of the Assignor (in its capacity as a Lender) 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 pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) above being referred to herein collectively as, the “Assigned Interest”). Such sale and assignment is without recourse to the Assignor and, except as expressly provided in this Assignment and Assumption, without representation or warranty by the Assignor.

 

1.    Assignor:    ______________________________
2.    Assignee:    ______________________________
      [and is an Affiliate of [identify Lender]]
3.    Borrowers:   

RPM INTERNATIONAL INC. and RPM

NEW HORIZONS NETHERLANDS B.V.

4.    Administrative Agent:   

PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as the

administrative agent under the Credit Agreement


5.    Credit Agreement:   

The Credit Agreement dated as of February 21,

2020 among the Borrowers, the Lenders now or

party thereto, and PNC Bank, National Association,

as Administrative Agent

6.    Assigned Interest:   

 

Facility Assigned

   Aggregate Amount
of
Commitment/Loans
for all Lenders
     Amount of
Commitment/
Loans Assigned
     Percentage Assigned
of
Commitment/Loans1
    CUSIP Number  

Domestic Term Loan Commitment

   $        $                

Foreign Term Loan Commitment

   $        $                

7. [Trade Date: ______________] 2

 

 

1 

Set forth, to at least 9 decimals, as a percentage of the Commitment/Loans of all Lenders thereunder.

2 

To be completed if the Assignor and the Assignee intend that the minimum assignment amount is to be determined as of the Trade Date.

 

2


Effective Date: ________________, 20___ [TO BE INSERTED BY ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND WHICH SHALL BE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF RECORDATION OF TRANSFER IN THE REGISTER THEREFOR.] 3

The terms set forth in this Assignment and Assumption are hereby agreed to:

 

ASSIGNOR
   

 

By:    
Name:    
Title:    

 

ASSIGNEE
   
By:    
Name:    
Title:    

 

3 

Assignor shall pay a fee of $3,500 to the Administrative Agent in connection with the Assignment and Assumption.


  Consented to and Accepted:
  PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Administrative Agent
  By:    
  Name:    
  Title:    


Consented to: 4

 

RPM INTERNATIONAL INC.
By:  

 

Name:  

 

Title:  

 

 

 

4 

If applicable


ANNEX 1

RPM INTERNATIONAL INC. ET AL.

CREDIT FACILITY

STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS

FOR ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT

1. Representations and Warranties.

1.1 Assignor. The Assignor (a) represents and warrants that (i) it is the legal and beneficial owner of the Assigned Interest, (ii) the Assigned Interest is free and clear of any lien, encumbrance or other adverse claim, and (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 (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 Borrowers, any of their Subsidiaries or Affiliates or any other Person obligated in respect of any Loan Document, or (iv) the performance or observance by the Borrowers, any of their Subsidiaries or Affiliates or any other Person of any of their respective obligations under any Loan Document.

1.2. Assignee. The 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 requirements of an eligible assignee under the Credit Agreement (subject to receipt of such consents as may be required under the Credit Agreement), (iii) from and after the Effective Date, it shall be bound by the provisions of the Credit Agreement as a Lender thereunder and, to the extent of the Assigned Interest, shall have the obligations of a Lender thereunder, (iv) it has received a copy of the Credit Agreement, together with copies of the most recent financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 8.3 [Reporting Requirements] thereof, as applicable, and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Assignment and Assumption and to purchase the Assigned Interest on the basis of which it has made such analysis and decision independently and without reliance on the Administrative Agent or any other Lender, [(v) [to be included in case Commitment/Loans to the Foreign Borrower is/are assigned and in case the Assignee (new Lender) is located in or organized under the laws of the Netherlands] the Assignee confirms on the Trade Date that its amount of Commitments/Loans assumed is at least the Dollar Equivalent of EUR 50,000 or that it otherwise qualifies as a professional market party (professionele marktpartij) within the meaning of the Dutch Act on Financial Supervision (Wet op het financieel toezicht) and any regulation promulgated thereunder as amended or replaced from time to time.,] and (v[i]) if Assignee is not incorporated or organized under the Laws of the United States of America or a state thereof, 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 Assignee; and (b) agrees that


(i) it will, independently and without reliance on the Administrative Agent, the 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 Assigned Interest (including payments of principal, interest, fees and other amounts) to the Assignor for amounts which have accrued to but excluding the Effective Date and to the Assignee for amounts which have accrued from and after the Effective Date.

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 internal laws of the State of Ohio without regard to its conflict of laws principles.


EXHIBIT 1.1(N)(1)

DOMESTIC TERM LOAN NOTE

 

$                            Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
                       , 2020        

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, RPM INTERNATIONAL INC., a Delaware corporation (herein called the “Domestic Borrower”), hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the order of _________________________________ (the “Lender”) the principal sum of ___________________________ Dollars (US$__________), pursuant to Section 2 [Term Loan Facility] of the Credit Agreement dated as of February 21, 2020, among the Domestic Borrower, RPM New Horizons Netherlands B.V., a corporation incorporated under the laws of the Netherlands, as Foreign Borrower, the Lenders now or hereafter party thereto, and PNC Bank, National Association, as administrative agent (hereinafter referred to in such capacity as the “Administrative Agent”), (as amended, restated, modified or supplemented, from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), payable to the Lender in accordance with Section 2.3 [Repayment of Term Loans] of the Credit Agreement.

The Domestic Borrower shall pay interest on the unpaid principal balance hereof from time to time outstanding from the date hereof at the rate or rates per annum specified by the Domestic Borrower pursuant to, or as otherwise provided in, the Credit Agreement. Subject to the provisions of the Credit Agreement, interest on this Term Note will be payable pursuant to Section 5.5 [Interest Payment Dates] of, or as otherwise provided in, the Credit Agreement. If any payment or action to be made or taken hereunder shall be stated to be or become due on a day which is not a Business Day, such payment or action shall be made or taken on the next following Business Day, unless otherwise provided in the Credit Agreement, and such extension of time shall be included in computing interest or fees, if any, in connection with such payment or action. Upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default and until such time such Event of Default shall have been cured or waived, at the Administrative Agent’s discretion or upon written demand by the Required Lenders, the Domestic Borrower shall pay interest on the unpaid principal balance hereof at a rate per annum as set forth in Section 4.3 [Interest After Default] of the Credit Agreement. Such interest will accrue before and after any judgment has been entered.

Subject to the provisions of the Credit Agreement, payments of both principal and interest shall be made without setoff, counterclaim or other deduction of any nature at the office of the Administrative Agent located at 500 First Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219 unless otherwise directed in writing by the Administrative Agent, in lawful money of the United States of America in immediately available funds.

This Term Note is one of the Notes referred to in, and is entitled to the benefits of, the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents, including the representations, warranties, covenants, conditions, security interests, if any, and Liens, if any, contained or granted therein. The Credit Agreement, among other things, contains provisions for acceleration of the maturity hereof upon the happening of certain stated events and also for prepayments, in certain circumstances, on account of principal hereof prior to maturity upon the terms and conditions therein specified. The Domestic Borrower waives presentment, demand, notice, protest and all other demands and notices in connection with the delivery, acceptance, performance, default or enforcement of this Term Note and the Credit Agreement.


This Term Note shall bind the Domestic Borrower and its successors and assigns, and the benefits hereof shall inure to the benefit of the Lender and its successors and assigns. All references herein to the “Borrower”, the “Domestic Borrower” and the “Lender” shall be deemed to apply to the Domestic Borrower and the Lender, respectively, and their respective successors and assigns as permitted under the Credit Agreement.

This Term Note and any other documents delivered in connection herewith and the rights and obligations of the parties hereto and thereto shall for all purposes be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Ohio without giving effect to its conflicts of law principles.

All capitalized terms used herein shall, unless otherwise defined herein, have the same meanings given to such terms in the Credit Agreement and Section 1.2 [Construction] of the Credit Agreement shall apply to this Term Note.

[SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS]

 

2


[SIGNATURE PAGE – DOMESTIC TERM LOAN NOTE]

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, and intending to be legally bound, the undersigned has executed this Term Note by its duly authorized officer with the intention that it constitute a sealed instrument.

 

RPM INTERNATIONAL INC.
By:                                                                      (SEAL)
Name:                                                                             
Title:                                                                               


EXHIBIT 1.1(N)(2)

FOREIGN TERM LOAN NOTE

 

$                            Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
                       , 2020          

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, RPM NEW HORIZONS NETHERLANDS B.V., a corporation incorporated under the laws of the Netherlands (herein called the “Foreign Borrower”), hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the order of _________________________________ (the “Lender”) the principal sum of ___________________________ Dollars (US$__________), pursuant to Section 2 [Term Loan Facility] of the Credit Agreement dated as of February 21, 2020, among the Foreign Borrower, RPM International Inc., a Delaware corporation, as Domestic Borrower, the Lenders now or hereafter party thereto, and PNC Bank, National Association, as administrative agent (hereinafter referred to in such capacity as the “Administrative Agent”), (as amended, restated, modified or supplemented, from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), payable to the Lender in accordance with Section 2.3 [Repayment of Term Loans] of the Credit Agreement.

The Foreign Borrower shall pay interest on the unpaid principal balance hereof from time to time outstanding from the date hereof at the rate or rates per annum specified by the Foreign Borrower pursuant to, or as otherwise provided in, the Credit Agreement. Subject to the provisions of the Credit Agreement, interest on this Term Note will be payable pursuant to Section 5.5 [Interest Payment Dates] of, or as otherwise provided in, the Credit Agreement. If any payment or action to be made or taken hereunder shall be stated to be or become due on a day which is not a Business Day, such payment or action shall be made or taken on the next following Business Day, unless otherwise provided in the Credit Agreement, and such extension of time shall be included in computing interest or fees, if any, in connection with such payment or action. Upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default and until such time such Event of Default shall have been cured or waived, at the Administrative Agent’s discretion or upon written demand by the Required Lenders, the Foreign Borrower shall pay interest on the unpaid principal balance hereof at a rate per annum as set forth in Section 4.3 [Interest After Default] of the Credit Agreement. Such interest will accrue before and after any judgment has been entered.

Subject to the provisions of the Credit Agreement, payments of both principal and interest shall be made without setoff, counterclaim or other deduction of any nature at the office of the Administrative Agent located at 500 First Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219 unless otherwise directed in writing by the Administrative Agent, in lawful money of the United States of America in immediately available funds.

This Term Note is one of the Notes referred to in, and is entitled to the benefits of, the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents, including the representations, warranties, covenants, conditions, security interests, if any, and Liens, if any, contained or granted therein. The Credit Agreement, among other things, contains provisions for acceleration of the maturity hereof upon the happening of certain stated events and also for prepayments, in certain circumstances, on account of principal hereof prior to maturity upon the terms and conditions therein specified. The Foreign Borrower waives presentment, demand, notice, protest and all other demands and notices in connection with the delivery, acceptance, performance, default or enforcement of this Term Note and the Credit Agreement.


This Term Note shall bind the Foreign Borrower and its successors and assigns, and the benefits hereof shall inure to the benefit of the Lender and its successors and assigns. All references herein to the “Borrower”, the “Foreign Borrower” and the “Lender” shall be deemed to apply to the Foreign Borrower and the Lender, respectively, and their respective successors and assigns as permitted under the Credit Agreement.

This Term Note and any other documents delivered in connection herewith and the rights and obligations of the parties hereto and thereto shall for all purposes be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Ohio without giving effect to its conflicts of law principles.

All capitalized terms used herein shall, unless otherwise defined herein, have the same meanings given to such terms in the Credit Agreement and Section 1.2 [Construction] of the Credit Agreement shall apply to this Term Note.

[SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS]

 

2


[SIGNATURE PAGE – FOREIGN TERM LOAN NOTE]

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, and intending to be legally bound, the undersigned has executed this Term Note by its duly authorized officer with the intention that it constitute a sealed instrument.

 

RPM NEW HORIZONS NETHERLANDS B.V.
By:                                                                  (SEAL)
Name:                                                                          
Title:                                                                            


EXHIBIT 2.4.1

FORM OF

LOAN REQUEST

 

TO:

PNC Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent

PNC Firstside Center - 4th Floor

500 First Avenue

P7-PFSC-04-I

Pittsburgh, PA 15219

Telephone No.: (412)  ###-###-####

Telecopier No.: (412)  ###-###-####

Attn: Agency Services

FROM:

________________________, a ____________________1 (the “Borrower”).

RE:

Credit Agreement (as amended, restated, modified or supplemented, from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), dated as of February 21, 2020, by and among RPM International Inc. and RPM New Horizons Netherlands B.V. (together, the “Borrowers”), the Lenders from time to time party thereto and PNC Bank, National Association, as administrative agent for the Lenders (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”).

Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings ascribed to them by the Credit Agreement.

 

A.    Pursuant to Section 2.4 [Loan Requests] of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned Borrower irrevocably requests [check one line under 1.(a) below, and fill in blank space next to the line as appropriate]
   1(a)   

             

   Renewal of the Euro-Rate Option applicable to an outstanding _______________ Term Loan originally made on __________ , 20__, OR
     

             

   Conversion of the Base Rate Option applicable to an outstanding _______________ Term Loan originally made on _________, 20__ to a Loan to which the Euro-Rate Option applies, OR
     

             

   Conversion of the Euro-Rate Option applicable to an outstanding _______________ Term Loan originally made on __________ __, 20__ to a Loan to which the Base Rate Option applies
  

SUCH NEW, RENEWED OR CONVERTED LOAN SHALL BEAR INTEREST:

 

[Check one line under 1.(b) below and fill in blank spaces in line next to line]:

   1(b)(i)                Under the Base Rate Option. Such Loan shall have a Borrowing Date of __________, 20___ (which date shall be the last day of the preceding Interest Period if a Loan to which the Euro-Rate Option applies is being converted to a Loan to which the Base Rate Option applies).

 

1 

NTD: Applicable Borrower to be inserted.


                         OR
      (ii)                Under the Euro-Rate Option. Such Loan shall have a Borrowing Date of _____________, 20__ (which date shall be three (3) Business Days subsequent to the Business Day of receipt by the Administrative Agent by 12:00 noon eastern time of this Loan Request for renewing a Loan to which the Euro-Rate Option applies or converting a Loan to which the Base Rate Option applies to a Loan to which the Euro-Rate Option applies).
   2           

Such Loan principal amount to be renewed or converted is U.S. $_____________

 

[for Loans under Section 2.4.1 not to be less than $5,000,000 and in increments of $1,000,000 for each Borrowing Tranche under the Euro-Rate Option and not to be less than $1,000,000 and in increments of $500,000 for each Borrowing Tranche under the Base Rate Option.]

   3   

[Complete blank below if the Borrower is selecting the Euro-Rate Option]:

 

Such Loan shall have an Interest Period of one, two, three, or six Month(s):2

_______________________________

B            As of the date hereof and the date of making the above-requested Loan (and after giving effect thereto): all of the representations and warranties contained in Article 6 of the Credit Agreement and in the other Loan Documents are true and correct in all material respects (unless any such representation or warranty is qualified to materiality, in which case such representation or warranty is true and correct in all respects), except for representations and warranties made as of a specified date (which were true and correct in all material respects, as applicable, as of such date); no Event of Default or Potential Default has occurred and is continuing or exists; the making of such Loan shall not contravene any Law applicable to the Borrower, any other Loan Party, any Subsidiary of the Borrower or of any other Loan Party or any other Guarantor, or any Lender.
C    Each of the undersigned hereby irrevocably requests [check one line below and fill in blank spaces next to the line as appropriate]:
   1                    Funds to be deposited into a PNC Bank bank account per our current standing instructions. Complete amount of deposit if not full loan advance amount:                     U.S. $_______________.

 

2 

NTD: Or twelve months, to the extent offered by all Lenders.

 

2


          

  

2         

  

                 

  

Funds to be wired per the following wire instructions:

 

U.S. $_________________ Amount of Wire Transfer
Bank Name: _____________________
ABA: __________________________
Account Number: _________________
Account Name: ___________________
Reference: _______________________

  

3

  

            

  

Funds to be wired per the attached Funds Flow (multiple wire transfers).

[REMAINDER OF PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK]

[SIGNATURES ON FOLLOWING PAGES]

 

3


[SIGNATURE PAGE TO LOAN REQUEST]

The Borrower certifies to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders as to the accuracy of the foregoing on ________________, 20___.

 

BORROWER:
                                                     3 
   
By:                                                            
Name:                                                            ,
Title:                                                            ,

 

3

NTD: Applicable Borrower to be inserted.

 

4


EXHIBIT 5.9.7(A)

[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 February 21, 2020 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among RPM International Inc., a Delaware corporation (together with its successors and assigns, the “Company”) and RPM New Horizons Netherlands B.V., a corporation incorporated under the laws of the Netherlands (together with its successors and assigns, “RPM Netherlands”; and together with the Company, referred to herein as a “Borrower” and collectively referred to as the “Borrowers”), the Lenders (as therein defined), and PNC Bank, National Association, in its capacity as administrative agent for the Lenders under the Credit Agreement (hereinafter referred to in such capacity as the “Administrative Agent”).

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 5.9 [Taxes] 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 any Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code and (iv) it is not a controlled foreign corporation related to any Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.

The undersigned has furnished the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers with a certificate of its non-U.S. Person status on IRS Form W-8BEN. By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided on this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent, and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished the Borrowers 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[    ]

 

Exhibit 5.9.7(A)    1   


EXHIBIT 5.9.7(B)

[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 February 21, 2020 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among RPM International Inc., a Delaware corporation (together with its successors and assigns, the “Company”) and RPM New Horizons Netherlands B.V., a corporation incorporated under the laws of the Netherlands (together with its successors and assigns, “RPM Netherlands”; and together with the Company, referred to herein as a “Borrower” and collectively referred to as the “Borrowers”), the Lenders (as therein defined), and PNC Bank, National Association, in its capacity as administrative agent for the Lenders under the Credit Agreement (hereinafter referred to in such capacity as the “Administrative Agent”).

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 5.9 [Taxes] 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 any Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code, and (iv) it is not a controlled foreign corporation related to any 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. 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[    ]

 

Exhibit 5.9.7(B)    1   


EXHIBIT 5.9.7(C)

[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 February 21, 2020 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among RPM International Inc., a Delaware corporation (together with its successors and assigns, the “Company”) and RPM New Horizons Netherlands B.V., a corporation incorporated under the laws of the Netherlands (together with its successors and assigns, “RPM Netherlands”; and together with the Company, referred to herein as a “Borrower” and collectively referred to as the “Borrowers”), the Lenders (as therein defined), and PNC Bank, National Association, in its capacity as administrative agent for the Lenders under the Credit Agreement (hereinafter referred to in such capacity as the “Administrative Agent”).

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 5.9 [Taxes] 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 any 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 any 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 (ii) an IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by an IRS Form W-8BEN from each of such partner’s/member’s 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[    ]

 

Exhibit 5.9.7(C)    1   


EXHIBIT 5.9.7(D)

[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 February 21, 2020 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among RPM International Inc., a Delaware corporation (together with its successors and assigns, the “Company”) and RPM New Horizons Netherlands B.V., a corporation incorporated under the laws of the Netherlands (together with its successors and assigns, “RPM Netherlands”; and together with the Company, referred to herein as a “Borrower” and collectively referred to as the “Borrowers”), the Lenders (as therein defined), and PNC Bank, National Association, in its capacity as administrative agent for the Lenders under the Credit Agreement (hereinafter referred to in such capacity as the “Administrative Agent”).

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 5.9 [Taxes] 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 any 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 any Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.

The undersigned has furnished the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers 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 (ii) an IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by an IRS Form W-8BEN from each of such partner’s/member’s 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 Borrowers and the Administrative Agent, and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished the Borrowers 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[    ]

 

Exhibit 5.9.7(D)    1   


EXHIBIT 8.3.3

QUARTERLY COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

This certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 8.3.3 of that certain Credit Agreement dated as of February 21, 2020 (the “Credit Agreement”) by and among RPM INTERNATIONAL INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), RPM NEW HORIZONS NETHERLANDS B.V., a corporation incorporated under the laws of the Netherlands (“RPM Netherlands”; together with the Company, the “Borrowers”), the Lenders now or hereafter party thereto (the “Lenders”), and PNC Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent for the Lenders (the “Administrative Agent”). Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement are used herein with the same meanings.

The undersigned officer,                         , the                          [Chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, chief operating officer, or treasurer] of the Company, in such capacity does hereby certify on behalf of the Company and other Borrowers as of the quarter/year ended                         , 20         (the “Report Date”), as follows:1

 

(1)

Maximum Leverage Ratio (Section 8.2.8). As of the Report Date, the ratio of (i) consolidated total Indebtedness of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries minus all Unencumbered Cash in excess of $50,000,000, to (ii) EBITDA, calculated as of the end of each fiscal quarter for the four fiscal quarters then ended, is _________________ [insert ratio from Item (1)(C) below] (Net Leverage Ratio), which is less than 3.75 to 1.00.2

The calculations for the Leverage Ratio (with dollar amounts in thousands) are as follows:

 

(A)  consolidated Indebtedness of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, as of the Report Date, calculated as follows (without duplication):

     —    

(i) indebtedness for borrowed money (whether by loan or the issuance and sale of debt securities) or for the deferred purchase or acquisition price of property or services, other than accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business

   $                        

 

1 

See Credit Agreement for full provisions relating to all financial covenants.

2 

During an Increased Net Leverage Ratio Period (as defined in Section 8.2.8 of the Credit Agreement), the maximum Net Leverage Ratio shall increase to 4.25 to 1.00.


(ii)   obligations in respect of letters of credit or similar instruments issued or accepted by banks and other financial institutions for the account of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries (whether or not such obligations are contingent)

   $                             

(iii)   Capital Lease Obligations

   $                             

(iv)  indebtedness of others of the type described in clauses (1)(A)(i), (ii) or (iii), above, secured by a Lien on the property of such Person, whether or not the respective obligation so secured has been assumed by such Person

   $                             

(v)    Guaranties of such Person of indebtedness of others of the type described in clauses (1)(A) (i), (ii) or (iii), above

   $                             

(vi)  the sum of Items 1(A)(i) through 1(A)(v) equals the consolidated Indebtedness of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries

   $                             

(vii)  Unencumbered Cash

   $                             

(viii)   Unencumbered Cash reserve

   $ 50,000,000
  

 

 

 

(ix)  Item 1(A)(vii) above minus Item 1(A)(viii) above

   $                             

(x)    Item 1(A)(vi) above minus Item 1(A)(ix) above

   $                             

(B)  EBITDA for the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries is calculated as follows:

     —    

(i)  net income of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries for such period (calculated before provision for income taxes, Interest Expense, extraordinary items, non-recurring gains or losses in connection with asset dispositions, income (loss) attributable to equity in affiliates, amounts attributable to depreciation and amortization)

   $                        


(ii)   non-recurring fees and expenses related to the acquisition of all or substantially all of the assets or capital stock (including by merger or amalgamation) of another Person (or, in the case of assets, of a business unit of a Person) or to any dispositions, investments and debt or equity issuances (whether or not successful) during such period, not to exceed $25,000,000 in the aggregate for such period of four consecutive fiscal quarters

   $                             

(iii)   costs, charges, expenses attributable to the undertaking and/or implementation of cost savings initiatives, operating expense reductions and other restructuring or integration costs, not to exceed in the aggregate 12.5% of EBITDA for such period

   $                             

(iv)  non-cash charges incurred in such period

   $                             

(v)    professional service expenses related to the Map 2020 Program in an amount not in excess of the amount of such expenses paid or accrued prior to the Revolving Credit Agreement Closing Date plus up to $25,000,000 of additional expenses incurred after the Revolving Credit Agreement Closing Date

   $                             

(vi)  expenses related to the refinancing of the credit facilities of the Borrowers pursuant to the Revolving Credit Agreement and future amendments of the Revolving Credit Agreement,

   $                             

(vii)  the sum of Items 2(A)(i) through 2(A)(vi)

   $                             

(viii)   non-cash gains for such period

   $                             

(ix)  pro forma adjustment to EBITDA, if any, if during such period the Company or any Subsidiary shall have made an acquisition or a disposition on or after the Closing Date, after giving pro forma effect to such acquisition or disposition, as if such acquisition or disposition, as the case may be, occurred on the first day of such period

   $                             


(x)   the sum of Item 2(A)(vii) minus Item 2(A)(viii) equals EBITDA plus or minus any adjustment required pursuant to 2(A)(ix)

   $ _____________  

(C)  Item 1(A)(x) divided by Item 1(B)(x) equals the Net Leverage Ratio

     ______ to 1.00  

 

(2)

Minimum Interest Coverage Ratio (Section 8.2.9). As of the Report Date, the ratio of EBITDA to Interest Expense, calculated as of the end of each fiscal quarter ending after the Closing Date for the four fiscal quarters then most recently ended, is _________________ [insert ratio from Item (2)(C) below] (“Interest Coverage Ratio”), which ratio is greater than or equal to 3.50 to 1.00.

The calculations for the Interest Coverage Ratio are as follows:

 

(A)  EBITDA for the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries is Item 1(B)(x):

   $ _____________  

(B)  Interest Expense calculated as the sum (determined without duplication) of the aggregate amount of interest accruing during such period on Indebtedness of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries (on a consolidated basis), including the interest portion of payments under Capital Lease Obligations and any capitalized interest, and excluding amortization of debt discount and expense and any non-cash interest expense associated with accretive type debt instruments

   $ _____________  

(C)  Item (2)(A) divided by Item 2(B) equals the Interest Coverage Ratio

     _____ to 1.00  

 

(3)

Representations, Warranties and Covenants. All representations and warranties of the Loan Parties under Article 6 are true and correct in all respects (in the case of any representation or warranty containing a materiality qualification) or in all material respects (in the case of any representation or warranty without any materiality qualifications) (except representations and warranties which expressly relate to an earlier date or time, which representations or warranties are true and correct on and as of the specific dates or times referred to therein).

 

(4)

Event of Default or Potential Default. No Event of Default or Potential Default exists as of the date hereof.

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SIGNATURE PAGE—QUARTERLY COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Certificate this ____ day of ______, 20__.

 

COMPANY (ON BEHALF OF BORROWERS):
RPM INTERNATIONAL INC., a Delaware corporation
By:    
Name:    
Title: