Interest Rate Protection No later than the 90th day after the Closing Date, the Borrower shall enter into, and for a minimum of three years thereafter maintain, Hedging Agreements acceptable to the Administrative Agent that result in at least 50% of the aggregate principal amount of its funded long-term Indebtedness being effectively subject to a fixed or maximum interest rate acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
Interest Rate Protection Agreement As of the date hereof, Borrower has entered into, made all payments required under, and satisfied all conditions precedent to the effectiveness of, an interest rate protection agreement that satisfies all of the following conditions (such interest rate protection agreement together with (i) any extension thereof or (ii) any other interest rate protection agreement entered into pursuant to Section 2.8, being referred to herein as the “Interest Rate Protection Agreement”):
Floating Rate/Fixed Rate Notes If this Note is specified on the face hereof as a “Floating Rate/Fixed Rate Note”, this Note will bear interest at the rate determined by reference to the applicable Interest Rate Basis or Interest Rate Bases: (1) plus or minus the applicable Spread, if any; and/or (2) multiplied by the applicable Spread Multiplier, if any. Commencing on the first Interest Reset Date, the rate at which this Floating Rate/Fixed Rate Note is payable will be reset as of each Interest Reset Date; provided, however, that: (A) the interest rate in effect for the period, if any, from the Original Issue Date to the first Interest Reset Date will be the Initial Interest Rate specified on the face hereof; and (B) the interest rate in effect commencing on the Fixed Rate Commencement Date will be the Fixed Interest Rate, if specified on the face hereof, or, if not so specified, the interest rate in effect on the day immediately preceding the Fixed Rate Commencement Date.
Floating Rate Notes If this Note is specified on the face hereof as a “Floating Rate Note”:
Interest Rate Protection Agreements (a) Within ninety days after the Closing Date, the Borrower shall enter into and thereafter maintain interest rate protection agreements (protecting against fluctuations in interest rates) having a term of at least three years from the Closing Date, establishing a fixed or maximum interest rate of 10.5% per annum for an aggregate notional amount equal to at least 50% of the aggregate principal amount of all Term Loans then outstanding.
Fixed Rate Notes If this Note is specified on the face hereof as a “Fixed Rate Note”:
Fixed Interest Rate Annual interest rate shall be /% and will not change during the duration.
INTEREST; INTEREST RATE (a) Interest on this Bond shall commence accruing at the Interest Rate (as defined in Section 30) from and including the Issuance Date and shall be computed on the basis of a three hundred and sixty (360)-day year comprised of twelve (12) thirty (30)-day months and shall be payable quarterly in arrears on January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1 of each year (each, an “Interest Payment Date”) with the first Interest Payment Date being January 1, 2010. Interest shall be payable on each Interest Payment Date, to the record holders of this Bond as recorded in the Register (as defined in Section 3(g)) held by the Company on the applicable Record Date, at the Company’s option, (A) in whole in cash (“Cash Interest”), or (B) in whole in shares (“Interest Shares”) of the Company that are designated on the date hereof as common shares, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Shares”), or (C) in a combination of Cash Interest and Interest Shares. In the event the Company decides to deliver Interest Shares on an Interest Payment Date, it must deliver a written notice (“Interest Election Notice”) to Holders no less than five (5) Trading Days prior to the Interest Payment Date (the date such notice is sent being the “Interest Notice Date”) pursuant to which notice, the Company elects to pay Interest entirely in Interest Shares or a combination of Cash Interest and Interest Shares and specifies the amount of Interest that shall be paid as Cash Interest and the amount of Interest that shall be paid in Interest Shares. Interest to be paid on an Interest Payment Date in Interest Shares shall be paid in a number of fully paid and nonassessable Common Shares equal to the quotient of (1) the amount of Interest payable on such Interest Payment Date less any Cash Interest paid and (2) the Interest Conversion Price in effect for the applicable Interest Payment Date (rounded down to the preceding whole number).
Regular Floating Rate Note Unless this Note is specified on the face hereof as a Floating Rate/Fixed Rate Note, this Note (a “Regular Floating Rate Note”) will bear interest at the rate determined by reference to the applicable Interest Rate Basis or Interest Rate Bases: (1) plus or minus the applicable Spread, if any; and/or (2) multiplied by the applicable Spread Multiplier, if any. Commencing on the first Interest Reset Date, the rate at which interest on this Regular Floating Rate Note is payable will be reset as of each Interest Reset Date; provided, however, that the interest rate in effect for the period, if any, from the Original Issue Date to the first Interest Reset Date will be the Initial Interest Rate.
Interest Rate Cap Agreement (a) The Interest Rate Cap Agreement in effect on the Closing Date has a LIBOR strike price equal to the Strike Price and a scheduled termination date of the Initial Maturity Date. The Interest Rate Cap Agreement (i) is in a form and substance reasonably acceptable to Lender, (ii) is with an Acceptable Counterparty, (iii) directs such Acceptable Counterparty to pay directly to an account pledged to Lender any amounts due Borrower under such Interest Rate Cap Agreement unless and until otherwise instructed by Lender (it being agreed as between Lender and Borrower that Lender will so instruct the Counterparty at such time as the Debt shall no longer exist, provided that the Debt shall be deemed to exist if the Properties are transferred by judicial or non-judicial foreclosure or deed-in-lieu thereof), and (iv) has a notional amount at least equal to the principal balance of the Loan outstanding on the Closing Date (it being understood that the notional amount of the Interest Rate Cap Agreement may be reduced, from time to time, as the principal balance of the Loan is reduced (in the amounts of such reduction in principal) pursuant to clause (g) below). Borrower shall collaterally assign to Collateral Agent (for the benefit of Lender), pursuant to the Collateral Assignment of Interest Rate Cap Agreement, all of its right, title and interest to receive any and all payments under the Interest Rate Cap Agreement, and shall deliver to Collateral Agent an executed counterpart of such Interest Rate Cap Agreement (which shall, by its terms, authorize the assignment to Collateral Agent (for the benefit of Lender) and require that payments be paid directly into an account pledged to Collateral Agent (for the benefit of Lender) as provided above in this Section 2.2.7). Provided no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, amounts contained in the foregoing pledged account shall be released to Borrower on a monthly basis to the extent not applied toward debt service on the Loan.
