Amendment and Restatement of Existing Credit Agreement Upon the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Existing Credit Agreement shall be amended and restated to read in its entirety as set forth herein. With effect from and including the Effective Date, (i) the Commitments of each Lender party hereto shall be as set forth on Appendix A (and (a) to the extent that such Lender constitutes a lender under the Existing Credit Agreement (a “Consenting Lender”), such Consenting Lender’s commitment thereunder shall be terminated and replaced with its respective Commitment hereunder and (b) any lender under the Existing Credit Agreement that is not listed on Appendix A shall cease to be a Lender hereunder and its commitment thereunder shall be terminated; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, such lender under the Existing Credit Agreement shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Section 9.03 of the Existing Credit Agreement), (ii) all accrued and unpaid interest and fees and other amounts owing under the Existing Credit Agreement shall have been paid by the Borrower under the Existing Credit Agreement, whether or not such interest, fees or other amounts would otherwise be due and payable at such time pursuant to the Existing Credit Agreement, (iii) the Commitment Ratio of the Consenting Lenders shall be redetermined based on the Commitments set forth in the Appendix A and the participations of the Consenting Lenders in, and the obligations of the Consenting Lenders in respect of, any Letters of Credit or Swingline Loans outstanding on the Effective Date shall be reallocated to reflect such redetermined Commitment Ratio and (iv) each JLA Issuing Bank shall have the Fronting Sublimit set forth in Appendix B.
Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust A copy of the Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust for the Trust is on file with the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Amended and Restated Agreement and Declaration of Trust has been executed on behalf of the Trust by Trustees of the Trust in their capacity as Trustees of the Trust and not individually. The obligations of this Agreement shall be binding upon the assets and property of the Trust and shall not be binding upon any Trustee, officer, or shareholder of the Trust individually.
Amendment of Partnership Agreement Pursuant to Section 17-211(g) of the Delaware Act, an agreement of merger or consolidation approved in accordance with this Article XIV may (a) effect any amendment to this Agreement or (b) effect the adoption of a new partnership agreement for the Partnership if it is the Surviving Business Entity. Any such amendment or adoption made pursuant to this Section 14.5 shall be effective at the effective time or date of the merger or consolidation.
Amendment and Restatement; No Novation (a) This Agreement constitutes an amendment and restatement of the Existing Credit Agreement effective from and after the Restatement Effective Date. The execution and delivery of this Agreement shall not constitute a novation of any Indebtedness or other Obligations owing to the Lenders or the Administrative Agent under the Existing Credit Agreement based on facts or events occurring or existing prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement. On the Restatement Effective Date, the credit facilities described in the Existing Credit Agreement shall be amended, supplemented, modified and restated in their entirety by the facilities described herein, all loans and other obligations of the Borrower outstanding as of such date under the Existing Credit Agreement shall be deemed to be Loans and Obligations outstanding under the corresponding facilities described herein, without any further action by any Person, and participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans shall be deemed to be reallocated as are necessary in order that the outstanding balance of such participations, together with any Loans funded on the Restatement Effective Date, reflect the respective Commitments of the Lenders hereunder. (b) In connection with the foregoing, by signing this Agreement, each Loan Party hereby confirms that notwithstanding the effectiveness of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby (i) the Obligations of such Loan Party under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents are entitled to the benefits of the guarantees and the security interests set forth or created herein and in the Collateral Documents, (ii) each Guarantor hereby confirms and ratifies its continuing unconditional obligations as Guarantor with respect to all of the Guaranteed Obligations, (iii) each Loan Document to which such Loan Party is a party is, and shall continue to be, in full force and effect and is hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects and shall remain in full force and effect according to its terms and (iv) such Loan Party ratifies and confirms that all Liens granted, conveyed, or assigned to any Agent by such Person pursuant to any Loan Document to which it is a party remain in full force and effect, are not released or reduced, and continue to secure full payment and performance of the Obligations.
Amendment and Restatement of Prior Agreement The Prior Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as set forth herein. Such amendment and restatement is effective upon the execution of this Agreement on the date hereof by the Company and certain of the Prior Investors who are party hereto, pursuant to Section 5.5 of the Prior Agreement. Upon such execution, all provisions of, rights granted and covenants made in the Prior Agreement are hereby waived, released and superseded in their entirety and shall have no further force or effect, including, without limitation, all rights of first refusal and any notice period associated therewith otherwise applicable to the transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement.
Amendment and Restatement On the Closing Date, this Agreement shall amend and restate and supersede the Existing Credit Agreement in its entirety. On the Closing Date, the rights and obligations of the parties evidenced by the Existing Credit Agreement shall be evidenced by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect on the Closing Date. All principal, interest, fees and expenses, if any, owing or accruing under or in respect of the Existing Credit Agreement for periods prior to the Closing Date shall be calculated and paid on the Closing Date. Upon the effectiveness of this Agreement, each reference in the Loan Documents to “the Credit Agreement” or words of similar effect shall mean this Agreement. Each Loan Party (a) acknowledges and agrees that each Loan Document (as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement) and all other instruments and documents executed and delivered by such Loan Party in favor of the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as applicable, pursuant the Existing Credit Agreement, unless terminated or discharged prior to or on the Closing Date, shall remain in full force and effect on the Closing Date in accordance with its terms, in each case as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified and/or reaffirmed pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the other Credit Documents and (b) ratifies, reaffirms and confirms that, the Obligations that remain unpaid and outstanding as of the date of this Agreement after giving effect to the Transactions (x) continue outstanding under this Agreement and shall not be deemed to be paid, released, discharged or otherwise satisfied by the execution of this Agreement, and this Agreement shall not constitute a refinancing, substitution or novation of such Obligations or any of the other rights, duties and obligations of the parties hereunder, and the terms “Obligations” as such term is used in the Loan Documents shall include the Obligations as amended and restated under this Agreement, and (y) are secured pursuant to the Collateral Documents (as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement), unless terminated or discharged on the Closing Date, in each case as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified and/or reaffirmed pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all security interests, pledges, assignments and other Liens and Guarantees previously granted by any Loan Party pursuant to the Loan Documents executed and delivered in connection with the Existing Credit Agreement are hereby reaffirmed, ratified, renewed and continued, and all such security interests, pledges, assignments and other Liens and Guarantees, in each case, unless expressly terminated, superseded or discharged on and after the Closing Date, shall remain in full force and effect as security for the Obligations (as defined in this Agreement) on and after the Closing Date.
Amending Agreement The Trustees are directed to amend the Trust Agreement or the Pension Plan to be consistent with the provisions of this Agreement. The Trustees shall have discretion in acting on claims for benefits under the plan subject to review only in accordance with the arbitrary and capricious standard.
Amendment of Definitions Subject to Section 2.01 hereof, the Indenture is hereby amended by deleting any definitions from the Indenture with respect to which references would be eliminated as a result of the amendments of the Indenture pursuant to Section 1.01 hereof.
Amendment of Plan The Board of Directors may amend the Plan with respect to all Participating Companies or with respect to a particular Participating Company at any time, and from time to time, pursuant to written resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors (and all Employees and persons claiming any interest hereunder shall be bound thereby); provided, however, that no such amendment shall: (a) Alter the rights, duties or responsibilities of the Named Fiduciary or Trustees without their written consent; (b) Permit any portion of the Trust Fund to inure to the benefit of the Company or permit any portion of the Trust Fund to be held or used other than for the exclusive purpose of providing benefits to Participants and their Beneficiaries and defraying reasonable costs of administering the Plan; or (c) Have the effect of decreasing the “accrued benefit” of any Participant as proscribed in Section 411(d)(6) of the Code; (d) Have the effect of reducing any then vested percentage of benefits of any Participant as computed in accordance with the vesting schedule under Article VII of the Plan. If the vesting schedule under Article VII of the Plan shall be amended and such an amendment would, at any time, decrease the percentage of vested benefits which any Participant would have been entitled to receive had the vesting schedule not been so amended, then each Participant who is an Employee on the date such amendment is adopted, or the date such amendment is effective, whichever is later, and who has three (3) or more Periods of Service as of the end of the period within which such Participant may make the election provided for herein, shall be permitted, beginning on the date such amendment is adopted, to irrevocably elect to have the Participant’s vested interest computed without regard to such amendment. Written notice of such amendment and the availability of such election must be given to each such Participant, and each such Participant shall be granted a period of sixty (60) days after the later of: (1) The Participant’s receipt of such notice; or (2) The effective date of such amendment within which to make such election. Such election shall be exercised by the Participant by delivering or sending written notice thereof to the Named Fiduciary prior to the expiration of such sixty (60) day period.
Amendment of Exhibit A Upon the admission of a Substituted Limited Partner, the General Partner shall amend Exhibit A to reflect the name, address, number of Partnership Units, and Percentage Interest of such Substituted Limited Partner and to eliminate or adjust, if necessary, the name, address and interest of the predecessor of such Substituted Limited Partner.
