Asset Sales The Parent Borrower will not, and will not permit any of the Subsidiaries to, sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of any asset, including any Equity Interest owned by it, nor will the Parent Borrower permit any of the Subsidiaries to issue any additional Equity Interest in such Subsidiary, except:
(a) sales of inventory, used or surplus equipment and Permitted Investments in the ordinary course of business;
(b) sales, transfers and dispositions to the Parent Borrower or a Subsidiary, provided that any such sales, transfers or dispositions involving a Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Loan Party shall be made in compliance with Section 6.09;
(c) sale and leaseback transactions permitted by Section 6.06;
(d) sales, transfers and other dispositions of assets (other than Equity Interests in a Subsidiary) that are not permitted by any other clause of this Section, provided that the aggregate fair market value of all assets sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of in reliance upon this clause (c) shall not exceed $25,000,000 during any fiscal year of the Parent Borrower or $50,000,000 in the aggregate during the term of this Agreement;
(e) licenses and sublicenses of intellectual property rights, granted in the ordinary course of business and not interfering individually or in the aggregate in any material respect with the conduct of the business of the Parent Borrower and the Subsidiaries; and
(f) trade-ins, trade-ups and other similar exchanges of equipment of the Parent Borrower and the Subsidiaries for other equipment to be used in the business of the Parent Borrower and the Subsidiaries made in the ordinary course of business; provided that all sales, transfers, leases and other dispositions permitted hereby (other than those permitted by clause (b) above) shall be made for fair value and (other than those permitted by clause (b) or (f) above) for consideration at least 85% of which is cash.
Asset Dispositions Make any Asset Disposition, except:
(a) the sale of obsolete, worn-out or surplus assets no longer used or usable in the business of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;
(i) non-exclusive licenses and sublicenses of intellectual property rights in the ordinary course of business not interfering, individually or in the aggregate, in any material respect with the conduct of the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, (ii) exclusive licenses and sublicenses of intellectual property rights and other Asset Dispositions with respect to intellectual property granted or made in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice or (iii) exclusive licenses and sublicenses, assignments of intellectual property rights and other Asset Dispositions with respect to intellectual property granted or made in the exercise of the Borrower’s reasonable business judgment, where such exclusive license, assignment or other Asset Disposition is not reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(c) leases, subleases, licenses or sublicenses of real or personal property granted by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to others in the ordinary course of business not interfering in any material respect with the business of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;
(d) Asset Dispositions in connection with Insurance and Condemnation Events; provided that the requirements of Section 4.4(b) are complied with in connection therewith;
(e) Assets Dispositions in connection with transactions expressly permitted by Section 9.4;
(f) Asset Dispositions not otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section; provided that (i) at the time of such Asset Disposition, no Event of Default shall exist or would result from such Asset Disposition and (ii) such Asset Disposition is made for Fair Market Value and the consideration received shall not be less than 75% in cash or Cash Equivalents; and
(g) Asset Dispositions of accounts receivable transferred as part of a Permitted A/R Financing.
Net Sales Proceeds In the case of a transaction described in clause (A) of the definition of Sale, the proceeds of any such transaction less the amount of selling expenses incurred by or on behalf of the Company, including all real estate commissions, closing costs and legal fees and expenses. In the case of a transaction described in clause (B) of such definition, Net Sales Proceeds means the proceeds of any such transaction less the amount of selling expenses incurred by or on behalf of the Company, including any legal fees and expenses and other selling expenses incurred in connection with such transaction. In the case of a transaction described in clause (C) of such definition, Net Sales Proceeds means the proceeds of any such transaction actually distributed to the Company from the Joint Venture less the amount of any selling expenses, including legal fees and expenses incurred by or on behalf of the Company (other than those paid by the Joint Venture). In the case of a transaction or series of transactions described in clause (D) of the definition of Sale, Net Sales Proceeds means the proceeds of any such transaction (including the aggregate of all payments under a Mortgage or in satisfaction thereof other than regularly scheduled interest payments) less the amount of selling expenses incurred by or on behalf of the Company, including all commissions, closing costs and legal fees and expenses. In the case of a transaction described in clause (E) of such definition, Net Sales Proceeds means the proceeds of any such transaction less the amount of selling expenses incurred by or on behalf of the Company, including any legal fees and expenses and other selling expenses incurred in connection with such transaction. In the case of a transaction described in the last sentence of the definition of Sale, Net Sales Proceeds means the proceeds of such transaction or series of transactions less all amounts generated thereby which are reinvested in one or more Assets within 180 days thereafter and less the amount of any real estate commissions, closing costs, and legal fees and expenses and other selling expenses incurred by or allocated to the Company in connection with such transaction or series of transactions. Net Sales Proceeds shall also include any consideration (including non-cash consideration such as stock, notes, or other property or securities) that the Company determines, in its discretion, to be economically equivalent to proceeds of a Sale, valued in the reasonable determination of the Company. Net Sales Proceeds shall not include any reserves established by the Company in its sole discretion.
Asset Dispositions, etc The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, sell, transfer, contribute or otherwise convey, or grant options, warrants or other rights with respect to, all or substantially all of the assets of (a) the Borrower or (b) the Subsidiaries of the Borrower, taken as a whole, except sales of assets between or among the Borrower and Subsidiaries of the Borrower.
Asset Disposition If the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (other than a Financing Subsidiary) Disposes of any property which results in the receipt by such Person of Net Cash Proceeds in excess of $2,000,000 in the aggregate since the applicable Commitment Termination Date, the Borrower shall prepay an aggregate principal amount of such Loans owed to such Lender or Lenders equal to 100% of such Net Cash Proceeds no later than the fifth Business Day following the receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds (such prepayments to be applied as set forth in Section 2.09(b)).
Agreements for Disposition The Company shall enter into customary agreements (including, if applicable, an underwriting agreement in customary form) and take such other actions as are reasonably required in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of such Registrable Securities. The representations, warranties and covenants of the Company in any underwriting agreement which are made to or for the benefit of any Underwriters, to the extent applicable, shall also be made to and for the benefit of the holders of Registrable Securities included in such registration statement. No holder of Registrable Securities included in such registration statement shall be required to make any representations or warranties in the underwriting agreement except, if applicable, with respect to such holder’s organization, good standing, authority, title to Registrable Securities, lack of conflict of such sale with such holder’s material agreements and organizational documents, and with respect to written information relating to such holder that such holder has furnished in writing expressly for inclusion in such Registration Statement.
Excess Cash Flow In the event that there shall be Excess Cash Flow in excess of $2,500,000 for any Fiscal Year, the Borrower shall, not later than the tenth Business Day following the date that is ninety days after the end of such Fiscal Year, prepay the Loans in an aggregate amount equal to 50% (provided that (i) such prepayment percentage shall be 25% if, as of the last day of the most recently ended Fiscal Year, the Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio (determined for any such period by reference to the Compliance Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 5.1(c) calculating the Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio as of the last day of such Fiscal Year) shall be 1.80:1.00 or less and (ii) no such prepayment shall be required by this clause (e) if the foregoing Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio as of the last day of such Fiscal Year shall be 1.30:1.00 or less) of the entire Excess Cash Flow for such Fiscal Year minus 100% of voluntary repayments of the Loans made during such Fiscal Year with Internally Generated Cash; provided, that, if at the time that any such prepayment would be required, the Borrower is required to repay or repurchase or to offer to repurchase or repay Senior Secured Debt permitted pursuant to Section 6.1 pursuant to the terms of the documentation governing such Indebtedness with all or a portion of such Excess Cash Flow (such Senior Secured Debt required to be repaid or repurchased or to be offered to be so repaid or repurchased, “Other Applicable ECF Indebtedness”), then the Borrower may apply such Excess Cash Flow on a pro rata basis to the prepayment of the Loans and to the repayment or re-purchase of Other Applicable ECF Indebtedness, and the amount of prepayment of the Loans that would have otherwise been required pursuant to this Section 2.10(e) shall be reduced accordingly (for purposes of this proviso pro rata basis shall be determined on the basis of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Loans and Other Applicable ECF Indebtedness at such time, with it being agreed that the portion of Excess Cash Flow allocated to the Other Applicable ECF Indebtedness shall not exceed the amount of such Excess Cash Flow required to be allocated to the Other Applicable ECF Indebtedness pursuant to the terms thereof, and the remaining amount, if any, of such net proceeds shall be allocated to the Loans in accordance with the terms hereof); provided further, that to the extent the holders of Other Applicable ECF Indebtedness decline to have such indebtedness repurchased or prepaid, the declined amount shall promptly (and in any event within ten Business Days after the date of such rejection) be applied to prepay the Loans in accordance with the terms hereof.
Cash Receipts (a) The Borrowers shall deliver to the Administrative Agent (i) on the Effective Date and thereafter annually (or at such times as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request following the occurrence and during the continuance of a Cash Dominion Event), a list of all present DDAs maintained by the Borrowers, which list includes, with respect to each depository (A) the name of that depository; (B) the account number(s) maintained with such depository; and (C) to the extent known, a contact person at such depository (the “DDA List”), (ii) upon the occurrence of an Event of Default at the request of the Administrative Agent, notifications executed on behalf of the Borrowers to each depository institution identified on the DDA List in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, of the Administrative Agent’s interest in such DDA as described more fully in Section 2.21(d) and substantially in the form of Exhibit G (each, a “DDA Notification”), and (iii) on or prior to the Effective Date and periodically thereafter notifications (the “Credit Card Notifications”) executed on behalf of the Borrowers with each of the Borrowers’ major credit card and debit card processors in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(b) Annexed hereto as Schedule 2.21(b) is a list describing all arrangements to which any Borrower is a party with respect to the payment to any Borrower of the proceeds of all credit card and debit card charges for sales by such Borrower.
(c) Annexed hereto as Schedule 2.21(c) is a list describing all Concentration Accounts and Investment Accounts maintained by the Borrowers. On or prior to the Effective Date, the Borrowers shall enter into an Account Control Agreement with the Controlled Account Banks for the Concentration Accounts and the Investment Accounts, in each case in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(d) The DDA Notifications and Credit Card Notifications shall require, after the occurrence and during the continuance of a Cash Dominion Event, the sweep on each Business Day of all available cash receipts and other proceeds from the sale or disposition of any Collateral, including, without limitation, the proceeds of all credit card and debit card charges (all such cash receipts and proceeds, “Cash Receipts”), to (x) a concentration account maintained by the Collateral Agent at Bank of America (the “Bank of America Concentration Account”), or (y) a Controlled Account, as the Administrative Agent or the Canadian Agent, as applicable, may direct.
(e) The Account Control Agreements shall require, after the occurrence and during the continuance of a Cash Dominion Event, the sweep on each Business Day of all Cash Receipts to the Bank of America Concentration Account or to such other account as the Administrative Agent may direct, and with respect to the Canadian Borrower, to a Concentration Account established by the Canadian Borrower or as the Canadian Agent may otherwise direct. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document to the contrary, the Administrative Agent or the Canadian Agent, as applicable, shall not send a notice of exclusive control regarding or otherwise exercise control over (i) any DDA subject to an Account Control Agreement unless a Cash Dominion Event shall have occurred and be continuing and will withdraw such notice of exclusive control and relinquish such control at such time as a Cash Dominion Event is no longer in effect, if requested in writing, by the Lead Borrower, or (ii) any Excluded DDA.
(f) If at any time after the occurrence and during the continuance of a Cash Dominion Event, any cash or cash equivalents owned by the Borrowers are deposited to any account (other than an Excluded DDA or a DDA for which a DDA Notification has been delivered), or held or invested in any manner, otherwise than in a Controlled Account that is subject to a Account Control Agreement as required herein, then the Administrative Agent may require the Borrowers to have all funds held in such account transferred to the Bank of America Concentration Account or such other Controlled Account as the Administrative Agent may direct, and with respect to the Canadian Borrower, to a Concentration Account established by the Canadian Borrower or as the Canadian Agent may otherwise direct.
(g) The Borrowers may close DDAs or Controlled Accounts and/or open new DDAs or Controlled Accounts, subject to the execution and delivery to the Administrative Agent or the Canadian Agent, as applicable, of appropriate DDA Notifications or Account Control Agreements consistent with the provisions of this Section 2.21. Unless consented to in writing by the Administrative Agent or the Canadian Agent, as applicable, the Borrowers may not enter into any agreements with additional credit card processors unless contemporaneously therewith, a Credit Card Notification is executed and delivered to the Administrative Agent or the Canadian Agent, as applicable.
(h) The Bank of America Concentration Account and the Concentration Accounts established by the Canadian Borrower are and shall remain under the sole dominion and control of the Collateral Agent or the Canadian Agent, as applicable. Each Borrower acknowledges and agrees that, subject to the provisions of subparagraph (i) below, (i) such Borrower has no right of withdrawal from the Bank of America Concentration Account and the Concentration Accounts established by the Canadian Borrower, (ii) the funds on deposit in the Bank of America Concentration Account shall continue to be collateral security for all of the Obligations (including the Canadian Liabilities), (iii) the funds on deposit in the Concentration Accounts established by the Canadian Borrower shall continue to be collateral security for all of the Canadian Liabilities, and (iv) the funds on deposit in the Bank of America Concentration Account shall be applied as provided in Sections 2.22(a) or 7.4, as applicable.
(i) So long as no Cash Dominion Event has occurred and is continuing, the Borrowers may direct, and shall have sole control over, the manner of disposition of its funds in the DDAs and the Controlled Accounts.
(j) After the occurrence and during the continuation of a Cash Dominion Event, the Borrowers shall cause the ACH or wire transfer to, upon the Administrative Agent’s or the Canadian Agent’s, as applicable, instruction, any Controlled Account, no less frequently than daily (unless the Commitments have been terminated hereunder and the Obligations have been paid in full) of the then current contents of each such DDA (other than any Excluded DDA), each such transfer to be net of any minimum balance, not to exceed with respect to any DDA (other than any Excluded DDA) $2,500, as may be required to be maintained in the subject DDA by the bank at which such DDA is maintained, and, in connection with each such transfer, the Borrowers shall also provide the Administrative Agent with an accounting of the contents of each DDA (other than any Excluded DDA).
(k) After the occurrence and during the continuation of a Cash Dominion Event, whether or not any Obligations are then outstanding, the Borrowers shall cause the ACH or wire transfer, upon the Administrative Agent’s or the Canadian Agent’s, as applicable, instruction, to the Bank of America Concentration Account of the then current entire ledger balance of each Controlled Account, net of such minimum balance, not to exceed $10,000, as may be required to be maintained in the subject Controlled Account by the bank at which such Controlled Account is maintained; provided that amounts in Controlled Accounts established by the Canadian Borrower shall be delivered only to a concentration account at Bank of America-Canada Branch or as the Canadian Agent may otherwise direct.
(l) In the event that, notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 2.21, after the occurrence of a Cash Dominion Event, the Borrowers receive or otherwise have dominion and control of any such proceeds or collections (other than proceeds deposited in any Excluded DDA), such proceeds and collections shall be held in trust by the Borrowers for the Administrative Agent or the Canadian Agent, as applicable, and shall not be commingled with any of the Borrowers’ other funds or deposited in any account of Borrower other than as instructed by the Administrative Agent or the Canadian Agent, as applicable.
(m) After the occurrence and during the continuation of a Cash Dominion Event, the Borrowers shall deliver to the Administrative Agent on each anniversary of the Effective Date (or at such other times as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request), a list of all Account Debtors, which list includes, with respect to each Account Debtor (i) the name, address, and telephone number of that Account Debtor; (ii) the account/reference numbers for such Account Debtor; and (iii) to the extent known, a contact person at such Account Debtor (the “Account Debtor List”).
Distributions of Available Cash From Operating Surplus Available Cash that is deemed to be Operating Surplus pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.3 or Section 6.5 shall be distributed as follows, except as otherwise contemplated by Section 5.6(b) in respect of additional Partnership Interests issued pursuant thereto (including pursuant to Article V with respect to the Preferred Units):
(a) First, 100% to the General Partner and the Unitholders, Pro Rata, until there has been distributed in respect of each Unit then Outstanding an amount equal to the Minimum Quarterly Distribution for such Quarter;
(b) Second, 100% to the General Partner and the Unitholders, Pro Rata, until there has been distributed in respect of each Unit then Outstanding an amount equal to the excess of the First Target Distribution over the Minimum Quarterly Distribution for such Quarter;
(c) Third, (i) to the General Partner in accordance with its Percentage Interest; (ii) 13% to the holders of the Incentive Distribution Rights, Pro Rata; and (iii) to all Unitholders, Pro Rata, a percentage equal to 100% less the sum of the percentages applicable to subclauses (i) and (ii) of this clause (c), until there has been distributed in respect of each Unit then Outstanding an amount equal to the excess of the Second Target Distribution over the First Target Distribution for such Quarter;
(d) Fourth, (i) to the General Partner in accordance with its Percentage Interest; (ii) 23% to the holders of the Incentive Distribution Rights, Pro Rata; and (iii) to all Unitholders, Pro Rata, a percentage equal to 100% less the sum of the percentages applicable to subclauses (i) and (ii) of this clause (d), until there has been distributed in respect of each Unit then Outstanding an amount equal to the excess of the Third Target Distribution over the Second Target Distribution for such Quarter; and
(e) Thereafter, (i) to the General Partner in accordance with its Percentage Interest; (ii) 48% to the holders of the Incentive Distribution Rights, Pro Rata; and (iii) to all Unitholders, Pro Rata, a percentage equal to 100% less the sum of the percentages applicable to subclauses (i) and (ii) of this clause (e); provided, however, if the Minimum Quarterly Distribution, the First Target Distribution, the Second Target Distribution and the Third Target Distribution have been reduced to zero pursuant to the second sentence of Section 6.6(a), the distribution of Available Cash that is deemed to be Operating Surplus with respect to any Quarter will be made solely in accordance with Section 6.4(e).
Sale Proceeds The proceeds of sale of any new Series of Notes shall be wired to the Collection and Funding Account, and the Indenture Trustee shall disburse such sale proceeds at the direction of the Administrator on behalf of the Issuer, except to the extent such funds are needed to satisfy the Collateral Test. The Administrator on behalf of the Issuer may direct the Issuer to apply such proceeds to reduce pro rata based on Invested Amounts, the VFN Principal Balance of any Classes of Variable Funding Notes, or to redeem any Series of Notes in accordance with Section 13.1. In the absence of any such direction, the proceeds of such sale shall be distributed to the Depositor or at the Depositor’s direction on the Issuance Date for the newly issued Notes. The Administrator shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee a report demonstrating that the release of sale proceeds pursuant to the Issuer’s direction will not cause a failure of the Collateral Test, as a precondition to the Indenture Trustee releasing such proceeds.
