Conditions Precedent to the Effectiveness of this Agreement The effectiveness of this Agreement is subject to the satisfaction of, or waiver in writing by IBM Credit of compliance with, the following conditions precedent on or prior to September 13, 1996:
(A) this Agreement executed and delivered by Customer and IBM Credit and receipt by IBM Credit of all attachments hereto in form and substance satisfactory to IBM Credit in its sole discretion;
(B) (i) copies of the resolutions of the Board of Directors of Customer in form and substance satisfactory to IBM Credit in its sole and absolute discretion certified by the secretary or assistant secretary of Customer authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and each Other Agreement executed and delivered in connection herewith, (ii) a certificate of the secretary or an assistant secretary of Customer, in form and substance satisfactory to IBM Credit in its sole and absolute discretion, certifying the names and true signatures of the officers of Customer authorized to sign this Agreement and the Other Agreements and (iii) copies of the articles of incorporation and by-laws of Customer in form and substance satisfactory to IBM Credit in its sole and absolute discretion certified by the secretary or assistant secretary of Customer;
(C) certificates dated as of a recent date from the Secretary of State or other appropriate authority evidencing the good standing of Customer in the jurisdiction of its organization and in each other jurisdiction where the ownership or lease of its property or the conduct of its business requires it to qualify to do business unless the failure to so qualify could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(D) copies of all approvals and consents from any Person, in each case in form and substance satisfactory to IBM Credit in its sole and absolute discretion, which are required to enable Customer to authorize, or required in connection with, (a) the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement and each of the Other Agreements, and (b) the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability of this Agreement and each of the Other Agreements and (c) the execution delivery or performance and legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability of the restructuring contemplated in connection herewith;
(E) a lockbox agreement executed by Customer and each Bank, in form and substance satisfactory to IBM Credit;
(F) a contingent blocked account agreement executed by Customer and each Bank in form and substance satisfactory to IBM Credit;
(G) the security interest of the Credit Managers Association shall have been released, the security agreement between Customer and the Credit Managers Association shall have been terminated, UCC termination statements relating thereto shall have been filed, appropriate filings shall have been made terminating any filings made by the Credit Managers Association with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office, all in form and substance satisfactory to IBM Credit in its sole and absolute discretion;
(H) a favorable opinion of counsel for Customer, satisfactory to IBM Credit, in form and substance satisfactory to IBM Credit and Customer;
(I) UCC-1 financing statements for each jurisdiction reasonably requested by IBM Credit executed by Customer and each guarantor whose guaranty to IBM Credit is intended to be secured by a pledge of its assets and all other statements, instruments and act (including, possession by IBM Credit) necessary to perfect IBM Credit's security interest in the Collateral;
(J) Customer shall have delivered to IBM Credit convertible preferred stock of the Customer and warrants to purchase common stock of Customer, in form and substance satisfactory to IBM Credit in its sole and absolute discretion;
(K) Customer and IBM Credit shall have executed a registration rights agreement in form and substance satisfactory to IBM Credit in its sole and absolute discretion, which agreement shall include terms providing for a fee to IBM Credit in an amount equal to $3,000,000 in the event the securities obtained by IBM Credit pursuant to the recapitalization (including those securities set forth in paragraph J above) are not subject to an effective registration statement on or prior to a date to be agreed upon by Customer and IBM Credit;
(L) The existing creditors of Customer (other than IBM Credit) shall have either (i) converted their claims against Customer for common stock of Customer or (ii) released their claims against Customer for cash in an amount not to exceed $500,000 in the aggregate, other than current claims payable by customer in an amount satisfactory to IBM Credit, all in form and substance satisfactory to IBM Credit in its sole and absolute discretion;
(M) All acts necessary or desirable, in the sole and absolute discretion of IBM Credit, to the recapitalization of Customer outlined in the Private Placement Memorandum dated August 9, 1996 shall have occurred and be in full force and effect;
(N) the statements, certificates, documents, instruments, financing statements, agreements and information set forth in Attachment A and Attachment B; and
(O) all such other statements, certificates, documents, instruments, financing statements, agreements and other information with respect to the matters contemplated by this Agreement as IBM Credit shall have reasonably requested.
Conditions Precedent to Initial Extension of Credit The obligation of each Lender to make an Advance or of any Issuing Bank to issue a Letter of Credit on the occasion of the Initial Extension of Credit hereunder is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions precedent before or concurrently with the Initial Extension of Credit:
(a) The Administrative Agent shall have received on or before the day of the Initial Extension of Credit the following, each dated such day (unless otherwise specified), in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (unless otherwise specified) and (except for the items specified in clauses (i) and (ii) below) in sufficient copies for each Lender Party:
(i) A Note payable to the order of each Lender requesting the same.
(ii) Completed requests for information, dated on or before the date of the Initial Extension of Credit, listing all effective financing statements filed in the jurisdictions that the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or desirable that name any Loan Party as debtor, together with copies of such other financing statements, and evidence that all other actions that the Administrative Agent may deem reasonably necessary or desirable have been taken (including, without limitation, receipt of duly executed payoff letters and UCC termination statements).
(iii) With respect to the Unencumbered Assets set forth on Schedule II on the Closing Date, the Administrative Agent hereby acknowledges the receipt of the documentation and deliveries delivered to it previously in its capacity as the administrative agent under the Existing Credit Agreement (pursuant to Sections 3.01 and 5.01(j) of the Existing Credit Agreement) and the Loan Parties irrevocably agree that all such deliveries shall be deemed to have been made to the Administrative Agent hereunder and that the Administrative Agent and Lender Parties may rely on the same; provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, the Fusepoint Asset shall be treated as an Unencumbered Asset, provided that if the Fusepoint Owner shall at any time (x) fail to be a direct Subsidiary of the Borrower or a Guarantor or (y) fail to hold title to the Fusepoint Asset for the sole use, benefit and advantage of the Borrower or a Guarantor, all as set forth in the Fusepoint Owner’s Declaration of Trust, then, in either such case, the Asset Value attributable to the Fusepoint Asset shall be zero.
(iv) Certified copies of the resolutions of the Board of Directors, general partner or managing member, as applicable, of each Loan Party and of each general partner or managing member (if any) of each Loan Party approving the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents and each Loan Document to which it is or is to be a party, and of all documents evidencing other necessary corporate action and governmental and other third party approvals and consents, if any, with respect to the transactions under the Loan Documents and each Loan Document to which it is or is to be a party.
(v) A copy of a certificate of the Secretary of State (or equivalent authority) of the jurisdiction of incorporation, organization or formation of each Loan Party and of each general partner or managing member (if any) of each Loan Party, dated reasonably near the Closing Date, certifying, if and to the extent such certification is generally available for entities of the type of such Loan Party, (A) as to a true and correct copy of the charter, certificate of limited partnership, limited liability company agreement or other organizational document of such Loan Party, general partner or managing member, as the case may be, and each amendment thereto on file in such Secretary’s office and (B) that (1) such amendments are the only amendments to the charter, certificate of limited partnership, limited liability company agreement or other organizational document, as applicable, of such Loan Party, general partner or managing member, as the case may be, on file in such Secretary’s office and (2) to the extent available, such Loan Party, general partner or managing member, as the case may be, has paid all franchise taxes to the date of such certificate and (C) such Loan Party, general partner or managing member, as the case may be, is duly incorporated, organized or formed and in good standing or presently subsisting under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, organization or formation.
(vi) A copy of a certificate of the Secretary of State (or equivalent authority) of each jurisdiction in which any Loan Party or any general partner or managing member of a Loan Party owns or leases property or in which the conduct of its business requires it to qualify or be licensed as a foreign corporation except where the failure to so qualify or be licensed would not be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect, dated reasonably near (but prior to) the Closing Date, stating, with respect to each such Loan Party, general partner or managing member, that such Loan Party, general partner or managing member, as the case may be, is duly qualified and in good standing as a foreign corporation, limited partnership or limited liability company in such State and has filed all annual reports required to be filed to the date of such certificate.
(vii) A certificate of each Loan Party and of each general partner or managing member (if any) of each Loan Party, signed on behalf of such Loan Party, general partner or managing member, as applicable, by its President or a Vice President and its Secretary or any Assistant Secretary (or those of its general partner or managing member, if applicable), dated the Closing Date (the statements made in which certificate shall be true on and as of the date of the Initial Extension of Credit), certifying as to (A) the absence of any amendments to the constitutive documents of such Loan Party, general partner or managing member, as applicable, since the date of the certificate referred to in Section 3.01(a)(vi), (B) a true and correct copy of the bylaws, operating agreement, partnership agreement or other governing document of such Loan Party, general partner or managing member, as applicable, as in effect on the date on which the resolutions referred to in Section 3.01(a)(v) were adopted and on the date of the Initial Extension of Credit, (C) the due incorporation, organization or formation and good standing or valid existence of such Loan Party, general partner or managing member, as applicable, as a corporation, limited liability company or partnership organized under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, organization or formation and the absence of any proceeding for the dissolution or liquidation of such Loan Party, general partner or managing member, as applicable, (D) the truth of the representations and warranties contained in the Loan Documents as though made on and as of the date of the Initial Extension of Credit and (E) the absence of any event occurring and continuing, or resulting from the Initial Extension of Credit, that constitutes a Default.
(viii) A certificate of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of each Loan Party (or Responsible Officer of the general partner or managing member of any Loan Party) and of each general partner or managing member (if any) of each Loan Party certifying the names and true signatures of the officers of such Loan Party, or of the general partner or managing member of such Loan Party, authorized to sign each Loan Document to which it is or is to be a party and the other documents to be delivered hereunder and thereunder.
(ix) Such financial, business and other information regarding each Loan Party and its Subsidiaries as the Lender Parties shall have reasonably requested, including, without limitation, information as to possible contingent liabilities, tax matters, environmental matters, obligations under Plans, Multiemployer Plans and Welfare Plans, collective bargaining agreements and other arrangements with employees, audited Consolidated annual financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2006 of the Parent Guarantor, interim financial statements dated the end of the most recent fiscal quarter for which financial statements are available (or, in the event the Lender Parties’ due diligence review reveals material changes since such financial statements, as of a later date within 45 days of the day of the Initial Extension of Credit).
(x) Evidence of insurance (which may consist of binders or certificates of insurance with respect to the blanket policies of insurance maintained by the Loan Parties with respect to property, commercial general liability and terrorism risks) with such responsible and reputable insurance companies or associations, and in such amounts and covering such risks, as is reasonably satisfactory to the Lender Parties.
(xi) An opinion of Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx LLP, counsel for the Loan Parties, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(xii) An opinion of Xxxxxxx LLP, Maryland counsel for the Loan Parties, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(xiii) An opinion of Xxxxxx and Xxxxx, LLP, Texas counsel for the Loan Parties, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(xiv) An opinion of Shearman & Sterling LLP, counsel for the Administrative Agent, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(xv) A breakage indemnity letter agreement executed by the Borrower in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(xvi) A Notice of Borrowing or Notice of Issuance, as applicable, and an Unencumbered Assets Certificate relating to the Initial Extension of Credit.
(b) The Lender Parties shall be satisfied with the corporate and legal structure and capitalization of each Loan Party and its Subsidiaries, including the terms and conditions of the charter and bylaws, operating agreement, partnership agreement or other governing document of each of them.
(c) The Lender Parties shall be satisfied that all Existing Debt (including, without limitation, all Debt under the Existing Credit Agreement other than the Existing Letters of Credit), other than Surviving Debt, has been prepaid, redeemed or defeased in full or otherwise satisfied and extinguished and that all Surviving Debt shall be on terms and conditions satisfactory to the Lender Parties.
(d) Before and after giving effect to the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents, there shall have occurred no material adverse change in the business, condition (financial or otherwise) results of operations or prospects of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower or the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole since December 31, 2006.
(e) There shall exist no action, suit, investigation, litigation or proceeding affecting any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries pending or threatened before any court, governmental agency or arbitrator that (i) would be reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect other than the matters described on Schedule 4.01(f) hereto (the “Disclosed Litigation”) or (ii) purports to affect the legality, validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, and there shall have been no material adverse change in the status, or financial effect on any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, of the Disclosed Litigation from that described on Schedule 4.01(f) hereto.
(f) All material governmental and third party consents and approvals necessary in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents shall have been obtained (without the imposition of any conditions that are not acceptable to the Lender Parties) and shall remain in effect, and no law or regulation shall be applicable in the reasonable judgment of the Lender Parties that restrains, prevents or imposes materially adverse conditions upon the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents.
(g) The Borrower shall have paid all accrued fees of the Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties and all reasonable, out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative Agent (including the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel to the Administrative Agent, subject to the terms of the Fee Letter).
