Exhibit 10.2 Amendment #3 to Letter Agreement

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EXHIBIT 10.2

AMENDMENT No. 3 TO
LETTER AGREEMENT

          THIS AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO LETTER AGREEMENT (“Amendment”) is made as of July 31, 2003, by and between ZIMMER HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware corporation and successor-in-interest to Zimmer, Inc. (the “Parent Borrower”) and BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., a national banking association (the “Bank”).

Recitals

          A. The Parent Borrower and the Bank are parties to that certain Letter Agreement dated as of July 17, 2001, as amended from time to time (the “Letter Agreement”), pursuant to which the Bank has made a $26,000,000 uncommitted standard instrument credit facility available to the Parent Borrower and certain designated subsidiaries of the Parent Borrower.

          B. The Parent Borrower has requested certain changes in the terms of the Letter Agreement, and the Bank is willing to agree to those changes on the terms and conditions set forth herein.

Agreement

          NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and for other good and valuable consideration, the parties do hereby agree as follows:

          1. Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Amendment shall have the meanings given them in the Letter Agreement.

          2. The Letter Agreement is hereby amended as follows:

          (a) The subject line on page 1 of the Letter Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:

“Re: $15,000,000 Uncommitted Standard Instrument Line of Credit”

          (b) The last sentence of Paragraph I.E of the Letter Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:

“This Agreement (including without limitation the obligations of Zimmer under Paragraph I.C(2) hereof) shall remain in full force and effect so long as either (a) any Standard Instrument is outstanding, or (b) the Bank has any obligation to, or for the benefit of, Zimmer in connection with this Agreement.”

 


 

          (c) Schedule A to the Letter Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:

           
Subsidiary Borrower   Advised Sublimit  
Zimmer CIS (Russia)
  $ 2,000,000  
Zimmer Korea
  $ 5,000,000  
Zimmer Taiwan Co. Ltd.
  $ 4,000,000  
Zimmer Pte, Ltd. — Singapore
  $ 2,000,000  
Zimmer (Shanghai) Medical International
Trading Co. Ltd.
  $ 2,000,000  
 
Total Uncommitted Standard Instrument
Line of Credit
  $ 15,000,000  

          (d) Exhibit A to the Letter Agreement is hereby amended as follows:

     (i) The definition of “Availability Termination Date” is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:

     “’Availability Termination Date’ means August 1, 2004.”

     (ii) The definition of “Obligation Cutoff Date” is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:

     “’Obligation Cutoff Date’ means August 1, 2005.”

     3. The Parent Borrower hereby represents and warrants to the Bank that:

     (a) this Amendment has been duly authorized, executed and delivered on its behalf, and the Letter Agreement, as amended hereby, constitutes its legal, valid and binding obligation enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except as limited by: (i) the Bankruptcy Code of the United States of America and all other applicable liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, suspension of payments, or similar debtor relief laws from time to time in effect affecting the rights of creditors generally; and (ii) general principles of equity;

     (b) the representations and warranties of Parent Borrower set forth in Paragraph III of the Letter Agreement (other than any representations and warranties that relate exclusively to a prior date, which representations and warranties were true and correct in all material respects as of such prior date), are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date hereof with the same force and effect as if made on and as of such date; and

     (c) no Default or Event of Default under the Letter Agreement has occurred and is continuing or will result from the execution and delivery of this Amendment.

     4. This Amendment shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York. As expressly amended hereby, the Letter Agreement is hereby ratified and confirmed and shall continue in full force and effect.

 


 

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

     
    ZIMMER HOLDINGS, INC.
     
    By:  /s/ James T. Crines
   
    Name:   James T. Crines
   
    Title:   Vice President and Controller
   
     
    BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
     
    By:  /s/Kevin P. Bertelsen
   
    Name:  Kevin P. Bertelsen
   
    Title:  Vice President