Common use of Authorization and Action Clause in Contracts

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, and the other Facility Loan Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Each Lender hereby acknowledges that Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is by reason of this Agreement assumed a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of any Lender. In performing its functions and duties under this Agreement Agreement, Agent shall act solely as agent of Lenders and shall not assume, or be deemed to have assumed, any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby obligation toward, or therebyrelationship of agency or trust with or for, any Borrower. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or and the other Facility DocumentsLoan Documents (including without limitation enforcement and collection of the Notes), no Agent may, but shall not be required to to, exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Majority Lenders, whenever such instruction shall be requested by Agent or required hereunder, or a greater or lesser number of Lenders (orif so required hereunder, with respect to the Collateral Agentand such instructions shall be binding upon all Lenders; provided, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, Agent to personal liability, cost or expense any liability or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Loan Documents or Applicable Lawapplicable law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary unless Agent is indemnified to its duties satisfaction by the other Lenders against any and all liability and expense which it may incur by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action. If Agent seeks the consent or approval of the Majority Lenders (or a greater or lesser number of Lenders as required in this Agreement), with respect to any action hereunder, under Agent shall send notice thereof to each Lender and shall notify each Lender at any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide time that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions Majority Lenders (or by refusing such greater or lesser number of Lenders) have instructed Agent to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take act or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructionsacting pursuant hereto.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No The Administrative Agent shall distribute a copy of all material modifications, amendments, extensions, consolidations, restatements, alterations, changes or revisions to any one or more of the Facility Documents (including, without limitation, waiver or consents entered into, executed or delivered by the Administrative Agent, but excluding the Administrative Agent Fee Letter), to each of the Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party Documents, or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Party, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such the Administrative Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such the Administrative Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No The Administrative Agent shall not have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or therebyhereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no the Administrative Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent)Lenders; provided that such the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such the Administrative Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or or, by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party Documents, or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Party, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or therebyhereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or or, by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. . If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any affirmative action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any Facility Document or Related Document unless and until directed by the Required Lenders (b) or the Administrative Agent on their behalf). Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person person in accordance with any notice given by the Required Lenders (or the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders on their behalf) pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Personperson, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a except where the Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have has actual knowledge (without any duty of inquiry or investigation on its part) that such Required Lenders or persons purporting to be the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunderRequired Lenders are not entitled to give such notice. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) . If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) two Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) two-Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case and Issuing Bank hereby appoints Bank of the Collateral Agent, America to act on its behalf as the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and thereofhereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, obligations except those expressly set forth herein or and in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenantsLoan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if anyi) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement (including, without limitation, enforcement or collection of any Notes), the other Facility Documents, no Administrative Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (oror such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, with respect to the Collateral Agent, or as the Administrative AgentAgent shall believe in good faith shall be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in Sections 9.01 and 7.02), and such instructions shall be binding upon all Lenders and all holders of Notes; provided that such the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgmentopinion or in the opinion of its counsel, may expose the Administrative Agent to personal liability, cost or expense liability or which is contrary to this AgreementAgreement or applicable law, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instructionii) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent shall not be subject to any fiduciary or exercise its discretion other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and (iii) except as expressly set forth herein and in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral other Loan Documents, the Administrative Agent nor shall not have any officerduty to disclose, agent or representative thereof and shall not be personally liable for the failure to disclose, any action taken information relating to any of the Borrowers or any of their Affiliates that is communicated to or obtained by any such the Person in accordance with any notice given by serving as the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders any of its Affiliates in any capacity. The Administrative Agent agrees to give to each Lender prompt notice of each notice given to it by any Borrower pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even ifand, at the time such action is taken by any such Personpromptly, copies of each item furnished to the Administrative Agent or pursuant to Section 6.01(i). The provisions of this Article are solely for the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be benefit of the Administrative Agent or Agent, the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such noticeand the Issuing Banks, unless a Responsible Officer of and neither the Collateral Agent Company nor any other Borrower shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise rights as to the allocation a third party beneficiary of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleaderprovisions. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Facility Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or Documents, nor any fiduciary relationship with or duty to any Secured Party Party, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or therebyhereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent)Controlling Lenders; provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or or, by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Required Lenders to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related Document unless and until directed by the Required Lenders (or the Administrative Agent on their behalf). (c) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a except where the Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have has actual knowledge (without any duty of inquiry or investigation on its part) that the same Required Lenders or unless Persons purporting to be the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunderRequired Lenders are not entitled to give such notice. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (cd) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Facility Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party Documents, or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Party, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or therebyhereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent)Lenders; provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or or, by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party Documents, or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Party, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or therebyhereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or or, by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. . If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Required Lenders to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any affirmative action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any Facility Document or Related Document unless and until directed by the Required Lenders (b) or the Administrative Agent on their behalf). Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person person in accordance with any notice given by the Required Lenders (or the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders on their behalf) pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Personperson, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a except where the Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have has actual knowledge (without any duty of inquiry or investigation on its part) that such Required Lenders or persons purporting to be the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunderRequired Lenders are not entitled to give such notice. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) . If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five two (52) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) two-Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and thereofhereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement (including, without limitation, enforcement or collection of the other Facility DocumentsNotes), no the Administrative Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (oror such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, with respect to the Collateral Agent, or as the Administrative AgentAgent shall believe in good faith to be necessary, under the circumstances as provided herein), and such instructions shall be binding upon all Lenders and all holders of Notes; provided provided, however, that such the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agentthat, in its judgmentopinion, exposes the Administrative Agent to personal liability, cost liability or expense or which that is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents Agreement or Applicable Law, applicable law. The Administrative Agent agrees to give to each Lender prompt notice of each notice given to it by Mondelēz International or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or Borrower as required by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time request of Mondelēz International or such action is taken by other Borrower, and any such Personnotice provided pursuant to Section 5.01(c)(iv), the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral but otherwise no Agent shall have actual knowledge of any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the same failure to disclose, any information relating to Mondelēz International or unless its Subsidiaries or Affiliates that is communicated to or obtained by the Collateral Person serving as an Agent acts in breach or any of its standard of care hereunderAffiliates in any capacity. If Notwithstanding any dispute or disagreement shall arise as provision to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Documentcontrary contained elsewhere herein, the Collateral no Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein, nor shall any Agent have or be deemed to have any fiduciary relationship with any Lender or participant, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into this Agreement or otherwise exist against any Agent. Without limiting the right to deliver such sum to a court generality of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreementthe foregoing sentence, the Collateral use of the term “agent” herein with reference to any Agent is required not intended to decide connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express) obligations arising under agency doctrine of any applicable law. Instead, such term is used merely as a matter of market custom, and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructionsindependent contracting parties.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Transaction Documents as are delegated to such the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party Transaction Documents, or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Party, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such the Administrative Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Transaction Document to which such the Administrative Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No The Administrative Agent shall not have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or therebyhereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Transaction Documents, no the Administrative Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent)Lenders; provided that such the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such the Administrative Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense liability or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Transaction Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Transaction Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Transaction Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or or, by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Majority Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Majority Lenders or the Majority Lenders, as applicable, (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Majority Lenders) to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related Document unless and until directed by the Majority Lenders (or the Administrative Agent on their behalf). (c) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any direction, instruction or notice given by the Majority Lenders (or by the Administrative Agent or acting at the Required Lenders direction of the Majority Lenders) pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders Majority Lenders, or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders Majority Lenders, are not entitled to give such direction, instruction or notice, unless a except where the Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have has actual knowledge (without any duty of inquiry or investigation on its part) that the same Majority Lenders, or unless Persons purporting to be the Majority Lenders, are not entitled to give such direction, instruction or notice. The Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon any direction, instruction or notice provided by the Administrative Agent as if provided by the requisite Lenders authorized to provide such direction, instruction or notice hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (cd) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Borrower or the Collateral Manager, prior to the occurrence and continuation of an Event of Default, or the Administrative Agent Agent, after the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No The Administrative Agent shall distribute a copy of all material modifications, amendments, extensions, consolidations, restatements, alterations, changes or revisions to any one or more of the Facility Documents (including, without limitation, waiver or consents entered into, executed or delivered by the Administrative Agent), to each of the Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party Documents, or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Party, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such the Administrative Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such the Administrative Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No The Administrative Agent shall not have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or therebyhereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no the Administrative Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent)Lenders; provided that such the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such the Administrative Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or or, by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor . Notwithstanding any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms other provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at to the time such action is taken by any such Personcontrary, the Administrative Agent or will request direction of the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be and take the Administrative Agent or direction of the Required Lenders are not entitled prior to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of any action or inaction in all matters concerning the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleaderDocuments. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Facility Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or Documents, nor any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Party, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or therebyhereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent)Controlling Lenders; provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or or, by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such the Agent by the terms hereof and thereofhereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No The Agent shall have any no duties or responsibilities, responsibilities except those expressly set forth herein or in this Agreement. The duties of the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into mechanical and administrative in nature; the Agent shall not have by reason of this Agreement a fiduciary relationship in respect of any Lender; and nothing in this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, expressed or implied, is intended to or shall be so construed as to impose upon the Agent any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities obligations in respect of this Agreement or any the other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or therebyLoan Documents except as expressly set forth herein. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement Agreement, including enforcement or collection of the other Facility DocumentsLoans and Drafts, no the Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from actingrefraining) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (orMajority Lenders, with respect to and such instructions shall be binding upon all the Collateral AgentLenders, the Administrative Agent); provided that such the Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, the Agent to personal liability, cost or expense liability or which is contrary to this Agreementthe Loan Documents or applicable law and provided, further, that without the consent of all Lenders, the other Facility Documents Agent shall not change or Applicable Lawmodify any Lender's Commitment, the definition of "Majority Lenders", the timing or would berates of interest payments, the timing or amounts of principal payments due in respect of Loans and Drafts, and provided, further, that the terms of Article 4 shall not be amended without the consent of Seafirst, and provided, further, that the terms of Sections 2.3 and 2.10(a), and this Article 10 shall not be amended without the prior written consent of the Agent (acting for its own account). In the absence of instructions from the Majority Lenders, the Agent shall have authority (but no obligation), in its judgmentsole discretion, contrary to its duties hereundertake or not to take any action, under unless this Agreement specifically requires the consent of the Lenders or the consent of the Majority Lenders and any other Facility Document such action or under Applicable Lawfailure to act shall be binding on all the Lenders. Each Lender agrees that and each holder of any Note shall execute and deliver such additional instruments, including powers of attorney in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise favor of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, as may be necessary or provide desirable to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing enable the Agent to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable mannerpowers hereunder. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party Documents, or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Party, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such the Administrative Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such the Administrative Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No The Administrative Agent shall not have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or therebyhereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no the Administrative Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent)Lenders; provided that such the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such the Administrative Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or or, by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither If the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent has been requested or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken directed by any such Person in accordance with any notice given the Required Lenders (or by the Administrative Agent or acting at the direction of the Required Lenders Lenders) to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the terms Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even ifshall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, at the time such action expenses or liability, unless it is taken by provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such Personexpenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related Document unless and until directed in writing by the Required Lenders (or the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of on their behalf) and the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same been provided indemnity acceptable to it against any expenditure, risk, cost, expense or unless the Collateral Agent acts liability in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver acting on such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleaderdirection. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Majority Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders) to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related Document unless and until directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable (or the Administrative Agent on their behalf). (c) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders) pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such notice, unless a except where the Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have has actual knowledge (without any duty of inquiry or investigation on its part) that the same Majority Lenders or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunderRequired Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such notice. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (cd) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Majority Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders) to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related Document unless and until directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable (or the Administrative Agent on their behalf). (c) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders) pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such notice, unless a except where the Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have has actual knowledge (without any duty of inquiry or investigation on its part) that the same Majority Lenders or unless the Required Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such notice. The Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon directions provided by the Administrative Agent as if provided by the requisite Lenders authorized to provide such direction hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (cd) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (andLender, in the case on behalf of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) itself and any of its Affiliates that are Secured Parties hereby irrevocably appoints the entity named as Administrative Agent in the heading of this Agreement and its successors and assigns to serve as the administrative agent and collateral agent under the Loan Documents and each Lender authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action actions as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, and the other Facility Loan Documents as are delegated to the Administrative Agent under such Agent by the terms hereof agreements and thereof, together with to exercise such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. In addition, subject to the terms hereofextent required under the laws of any jurisdiction other than within the United States, each Lender hereby grants to the Administrative Agent any required powers of attorney to execute and enforce any Collateral Document governed by the laws of such jurisdiction on such Xxxxxx’s behalf. No Without limiting the foregoing, each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent shall have any duties or responsibilitiesto execute and deliver, except those expressly set forth herein or in and to perform its obligations under, each of the other Facility Loan Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Administrative Agent is a party party, and to exercise all rights, powers and remedies that the Administrative Agent may have under such Loan Documents. (if anyb) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or herein and in the other Facility DocumentsLoan Documents (including enforcement or collection), no the Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required DIP Lenders (oror such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, with respect pursuant to the Collateral Agentterms in the Loan Documents), and, unless and until revoked in writing, such instructions shall be binding upon each Lender; provided, however, that the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which that (i) the Agent in good faith believes exposes it to liability unless the Agent receives an indemnification and is exculpated in a manner satisfactory to it from the Lenders with respect to such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost action or expense or which (ii) is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Loan Document even ifor applicable law, at including any action that may be in violation of the time such action is taken by automatic stay under any requirement of law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or relief of debtors or that may effect a forfeiture, modification or termination of property of a Defaulting Lender in violation of any requirement of law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or relief of debtors; provided, further, that the Agent may seek clarification or direction from the Required DIP Lenders prior to the exercise of any such Personinstructed action and may refrain from acting until such clarification or direction has been provided. Except as expressly set forth in the Loan Documents, the Agent shall not have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to any Borrower, any other Loan Party, any Subsidiary or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing that is communicated to or obtained by the Person serving as Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity. Nothing in this Agreement shall require the Agent to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. (c) In performing its functions and duties hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, the Agent is acting solely on behalf of the Lenders (except in limited circumstances expressly provided for herein relating to the maintenance of the Register, and its duties are entirely mechanical and administrative in nature. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing: (i) the Agent does not assume and shall not be deemed to have assumed any obligation or duty or any other relationship as the agent, fiduciary or trustee of or for any Lender or Secured Party other than as expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents, regardless of whether a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (and it is understood and agreed that the use of the term “agent” (or any similar term) herein or in any other Loan Document with reference to the Agent is not intended to connote any fiduciary duty or other implied (or express) obligations arising under agency doctrine of any applicable law, and that such term is used as a matter of market custom and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between contracting parties); additionally, each Lender agrees that it will not assert any claim against the Agent based on an alleged breach of fiduciary duty by the Agent in connection with this Agreement and/or the transactions contemplated hereby; (ii) where the Administrative Agent is required or deemed to act as a trustee in respect of any Collateral over which a security interest has been created pursuant to a Loan Document, or is required or deemed to hold any Collateral “on trust” pursuant to the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be foregoing, the obligations and liabilities of the Administrative Agent to the Secured Parties in its capacity as trustee shall be excluded to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law; (iii) to the extent that English law is applicable to the duties of the Administrative Agent under any of the Loan Documents, Section 1 of the Trustee Act 2000 of the United Kingdom shall not apply to the duties of the Administrative Agent in relation to the trusts constituted by that Loan Document; where there are inconsistencies between the Trustee Act 1925 or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer Trustee Act 2000 of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge United Kingdom and the provisions of this Agreement or such Loan Document, the provisions of this Agreement shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, prevail and, in the case of any inconsistency with the Trustee Act 2000 of the same United Kingdom, the provisions of this Agreement shall constitute a restriction or unless exclusion for the Collateral purposes of that Act; and (iv) nothing in this Agreement or any Loan Document shall require the Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If to account to any dispute Lender for any sum or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation profit element of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent for its own account. (d) The Agent may perform any of its duties and exercise its rights and powers hereunder or under any Facility Documentother Loan Document by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by the Agent. The Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any of their respective duties and exercise their respective rights and powers through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of this Article shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of the Agent and any such sub-agent, the Collateral and shall apply to their respective activities pursuant to this Agreement. The Agent shall have not be responsible for the right negligence or misconduct of any sub agent except to deliver such sum to the extent that a court of competent jurisdiction determines in a final and therein commence an action for interpleadernon-appealable judgment that the Agent acted with gross negligence or willful misconduct in the selection of such sub-agent. (ce) If [Intentionally Omitted]. (f) In case of the pendency of any proceeding with respect to any Loan Party under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in performing its duties under this Agreementeffect, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of any Loan shall then be due and payable as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent shall have made any demand on any Borrower) shall be entitled and empowered (but not obligated) by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise: (i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Loans and all other Obligations that are owing and unpaid and to file such other documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent (including any claim under Sections 2.12, 2.13, 2.15, 2.17 and 9.03) allowed in such judicial proceeding; and (ii) to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender and each other Secured Party to make such payments to the course Administrative Agent and, in the event that the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of action desired by such payments directly to the Lenders or the other Secured Parties, to pay to the Administrative Agent any amount due to it, in its capacity as the Administrative Agent, under the Loan Documents (including under Section 9.03). If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but Nothing contained herein shall be under no duty todeemed to authorize the Administrative Agent to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Lender any plan of reorganization, take arrangement, adjustment or refrain from taking composition affecting the Obligations or the rights of any Lender or to authorize the Administrative Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender in any such courses proceeding. (g) Without limiting the powers of action. The Collateral the Administrative Agent, for the purposes of holding any hypothec granted to the Attorney (as defined below) pursuant to the laws of the Province of Québec to secure the prompt payment and performance of any and all Secured Obligations by any Loan Party, each of the Secured Parties hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except and, to the extent necessary, ratifies the appointment and authorization of the Administrative Agent, to act as the hypothecary representative of the creditors as contemplated under Article 2692 of the Civil Code of Québec (in such capacity, the “Attorney”), and to enter into, to take and to hold on their behalf, and for their benefit, any hypothec, and to exercise such powers and duties that are conferred upon the Attorney under any related deed of hypothec. The Attorney shall: (a) have the sole and exclusive right and authority to exercise, except as may be otherwise specifically restricted by the terms hereof, all rights and remedies given to the Attorney pursuant to any such deed of hypothec and applicable law, and (b) benefit from and be subject to all provisions hereof with respect to the Administrative Agent mutatis mutandis, including, without limitation, all such provisions with respect to the liability or responsibility to and indemnification by the Secured Parties and Loan Parties. Any person who becomes a Secured Party shall, by its execution of an Assignment and Acceptance Agreement, be deemed to have consented to and confirmed the Attorney as the person acting as hypothecary representative holding the aforesaid hypothecs as aforesaid and to have ratified, as of the date it has alreadybecomes a Secured Party, all actions taken by the Attorney in good faithsuch capacity. The substitution of the Administrative Agent pursuant to the provisions of Section 8.06 also constitutes the substitution of the Attorney. (h) The provisions of this Article are solely for the benefit of the Agent and the Lenders and, taken except solely to the extent of the Borrowers’ right to consent pursuant to and subject to the conditions set forth in this Article, no Borrower nor any Subsidiary, or committed itself any of their respective Affiliates, shall have any rights as a third party beneficiary under any such provisions. Each Secured Party, whether or not a party hereto, will be deemed, by its acceptance of the benefits of the Collateral and of the Guarantees of the Secured Obligations provided under the Loan Documents, to take, action inconsistent with such instructionshave agreed to the provisions of this Article.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) The Buyer and each other Owner hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action act as its agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, and the other Transaction Documents with such powers and discretion as are specifically delegated to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof of this Agreement and thereofthe other Transaction Documents, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The Agent (which term as used in this sentence and in Section 9.5 and the first sentence of Section 9.6 hereof shall include its affiliates and its own and its affiliates' officers, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent directors, employees, and agents): (a) shall not have any duties or responsibilities, responsibilities except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement and shall not be a trustee or fiduciary for the Buyer or any other Facility Document Owner; (b) shall not be responsible to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement the Buyer or any other Facility Owner for any recital, statement, representation or warranty (whether written or oral) made in or in connection with any Transaction Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As any certificate or other document referred to any matters not expressly or provided for in, or received by this Agreement any of them under, any Transaction Document, or for the value, validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability, or sufficiency of any Transaction Document, or any other document referred to or provided for therein or for any failure by any of the Transferor, CAC, CompuCredit or any other Person to perform any of its obligations thereunder; (c) shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain, inquire into, or verify the performance or observance of any covenants or agreements by any of the Transferor, CAC or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise Servicer or the satisfaction of any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act condition or to refrain from acting inspect the property (including the books and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from actingrecords) upon the written instructions of any of the Required Lenders Transferor, CAC or the Servicer or any of their Subsidiaries or Affiliates; (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent d) shall not be required to take initiate or conduct any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost litigation or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, collection proceedings under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may Transaction Document; and (e) shall not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable responsible for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it under or in connection with any Transaction Document, except for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Agent may employ agents and attorneys-in-fact and shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any such Person in accordance agents or attorneys-in-fact selected by it with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleaderreasonable care. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related Document unless and until directed by the Required Lenders (or the Administrative Agent on their behalf). (c) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (cd) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such the Administrative Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such the Administrative Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No The Administrative Agent shall not have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no the Administrative Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent)Lenders; provided that such the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such the Administrative Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party Documents, or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Party, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such the Administrative Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such the Administrative Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no the Administrative Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent)Majority Lenders; provided that such the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such the Administrative Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or or, by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) Bank hereby irrevocably appoints appoints, designates and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement and each other Loan Document and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents and perform such duties as are expressly delegated to such Agent it by the terms hereof and thereofof this Agreement or any other Loan Document, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject . Notwithstanding any provision to the terms hereof. No contrary contained elsewhere herein or in any other Loan Document, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein herein, nor shall the Administrative Agent have or in the other Facility Documents be deemed to which it is a party or have any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Bank or participant, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or duties, obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Loan Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, otherwise exist against the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing sentence, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise use of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not term “agent” herein and in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) the other Loan Documents with reference to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent is not intended to connote any fiduciary or exercise its discretion in other implied (or express) obligations arising under agency doctrine of any applicable law, rule, regulation or order. Instead, such term is used merely as a matter of market custom, and is intended to create or reflect only an unreasonable manneradministrative relationship between independent contracting parties. (b) Neither Each L/C Issuer shall act on behalf of the Collateral Agent nor Banks with respect to any officerLetters of Credit issued by it and the documents associated therewith, agent or representative thereof and each L/C Issuer shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by have all of the benefits and immunities (i) provided to the Administrative Agent in this Article VII with respect to any acts taken or omissions suffered by such L/C Issuer in connection with Letters of Credit issued by it or proposed to be issued by it and the Required Lenders pursuant applications and agreements for letters of credit pertaining to such Letters of Credit as fully as if the terms “Administrative Agent” as used in this Article VII and in the definition of “Agent-Related Person” included the L/C Issuers with respect to such acts or omissions, and (ii) as additionally provided herein with respect to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleaderL/C Issuers. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) Bank hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent Issuing Bank to take such action as agent in such capacity on its such Bank's behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, and the other Facility Loan Documents as are delegated to such the Agent or the Issuing Bank by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement (including, without limitation, enforcement or collection of the Notes or of amounts owing under the other Facility Loan Documents), no neither the Agent nor the Issuing Bank shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (orMajority Banks, with respect to and such instructions shall be binding upon all Banks and any other holders of Notes; provided, however, that neither the Collateral Agent, Agent nor the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent Issuing Bank shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, it to personal liability, cost or expense liability or which is contrary to this Agreement, the Loan Documents or applicable law. Each of the Agent and the Issuing Bank is hereby expressly authorized on behalf of the other Facility Documents members of the Bank Group, without hereby limiting any implied authority, (a) to receive on behalf of each of the other members of the Bank Group any payment of principal of or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties interest on the Loans outstanding hereunder, under any Letters of Credit and all other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheldamounts accrued hereunder paid to such Persons, provide for the exercise and promptly to distribute to each other member of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in Bank Group its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. proper share of all payments so received; (b) Neither to give notice within a reasonable time on behalf of each other member of the Collateral Bank Group to the Borrower of any Default or Event of Default specified in this Agreement of which the Agent nor has actual knowledge as provided in Section 8.09; (c) to distribute to the other members of the Bank Group copies of all notices, agreements and other material as provided for in this Agreement as received by such Person; and (d) to distribute to the Borrower any officerand all requests, agent or representative thereof demands and approvals received by such Person from any other member of the Bank Group. Nothing herein contained shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by construed to constitute the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or Issuing Bank as a trustee for any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer holder of the Collateral Notes or of a participation therein, nor to impose on the Agent shall have actual knowledge of any duties or obligations other than those expressly provided for in the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleaderLoan Documents. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any other Facility Document (including the conduct of any sales pursuant to Section 6.04 of this Agreement) or any Related Document unless and until directed by the Required Lenders (or the Administrative Agent on their behalf) or the Collateral Manager, where applicable. The Collateral Agent shall have no liability to the Borrower, the Collateral Manager, the Equityholder or any of the other Secured Parties in connection with any sales conducted at the direction of the Administrative Agent. (c) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agentits capacity as such) hereby irrevocably appoints GS to act on its behalf as the Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Credit Documents, as applicable, for the benefit of the Lenders, and each such Lender irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, and the other Facility Credit Documents as are delegated to such Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement the Credit Documents (including, without limitation, enforcement or collection of the other Facility DocumentsLoan Notes or Loans), no the Administrative Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Requisite Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agentif required hereby, the all Lenders), and such instructions shall be binding upon all Lenders and all holders of Loan Notes; provided, however, that Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which that exposes such Agent, in its judgment, Administrative Agent to personal liability, cost liability or expense or which that is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents Agreement or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable mannerapplicable law. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the [Reserved]. (c) The Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms may execute any of its duties under this Agreement or any other Facility Credit Document even ifby or through agents, at the time employees or attorneys-in-fact and shall be entitled to advice of counsel and other consultants or experts concerning all matters pertaining to such action is taken by any such Person, the duties. The Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting may also from time to time, when such Administrative Agent deems it to be the Administrative Agent necessary or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such noticedesirable, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach perform any and all of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent duties and exercise its rights and powers hereunder or under any Facility Documentother Credit Document by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by the Administrative Agent (each, a “Supplemental Administrative Agent”). The Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through their respective Related Parties. Should any instrument in writing from the Borrower or any other Credit Party be required by any Supplemental Administrative Agent so appointed by the Administrative Agent to more fully or certainly vest in and confirm to such Supplemental Administrative Agent such rights, powers, privileges and duties, the Collateral Borrower shall, or shall cause such Credit Party to, execute, acknowledge and deliver any and all such instruments promptly upon request by the Administrative Agent. If any Supplemental Administrative Agent, or successor thereto, shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all rights, powers, privileges and duties of such Supplemental Administrative Agent, to the extent permitted by applicable law, shall automatically vest in and be exercised by the Administrative Agent until the appointment of a new Supplemental Administrative Agent. The exculpatory provisions of this Section 9 shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of the Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall have not be responsible for the right negligence or misconduct of any sub-agents except to deliver such sum to the extent that a court of competent jurisdiction determines in a final and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from non-appealable judgment that the Administrative Agent as to acted with gross negligence or willful misconduct in the course selection of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructionssub-agents.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints GLAS to act on its behalf as the Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Credit Documents, as applicable, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and hereby irrevocably appoints GLAS to act on its behalf as the Collateral Trustee under the other Credit Documents, as applicable, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and each such Lender irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent Trustee to take such action as agent on its behalf behalf, including execution of the other Credit Documents, and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement andand the other Credit Documents, to the extent as applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Trustee by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement the Credit Documents (including, without limitation, enforcement or collection of the other Facility DocumentsNotes or Loans), no the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Trustee shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any actionaction and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or any other Credit Document, as applicable, against the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Trustee, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Requisite Lenders (or, with respect to if required hereby, all Lenders), and such instructions shall be binding upon all Lenders and all holders of Notes; provided, however, that in no event shall the Administrative Agent or the Collateral AgentTrustee be required, and no provision in this Agreement or any other Credit Document shall be deemed to require the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required or the Collateral Trustee, to take any action which that exposes such Agent, in its judgment, it to personal liability, cost liability or expense or which that is contrary to this Agreement, Agreement or any other Credit Document or applicable law and no provision in this Agreement or any other Credit Document shall require the other Facility Documents Administrative Agent or Applicable Law, the Collateral Trustee to expend or would be, risk its own funds or otherwise incur financial liability in its judgment, contrary to the performance of its duties hereunder, hereunder or under any other Facility Credit Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds to believe that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. Without any further consent of the Lenders, the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretionAgent and the Collateral Trustee shall be authorized to negotiate, execute and deliver on behalf of the Secured Parties any Intercreditor Agreement or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions any amendment (or by refusing to provide instructionamendment and restatement) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion Collateral Documents that are, in an unreasonable mannereach case, consistent with the terms of this Agreement. (b) Neither In further of the foregoing, each Lender hereby appoints the Collateral Agent nor Trustee to act as the agent of such Lender for purposes of acquiring, holding and enforcing any officerand all Liens on Collateral granted by any of the Credit Parties to secure any of the Obligations, agent together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental or representative thereof related thereto. In this connection, the Collateral Trustee (and any Supplemental Agents appointed by the Collateral Trustee pursuant to Section 9.1(c) below for purposes of holding or enforcing any Lien on the Collateral (or any portion thereof) granted under the Collateral Documents, or for exercising any rights or remedies thereunder at the direction of the Collateral Trustee), shall be personally liable for any action taken by entitled to the benefits of this Section 9 (including, without limitation, Section 9.4, as though any such Person Supplemental Agent were an “Agent” under the Credit Documents) as if set forth in accordance full herein with any notice given by the respect thereto. (c) The Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms may execute any of its duties under this Agreement or any other Facility Credit Document even if, (including for purposes of holding or enforcing any Lien on the Collateral (or any portion thereof) granted under the Collateral Documents or of exercising any rights and remedies thereunder at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer direction of the Collateral Trustee) by or through agents, employees or attorneys-in-fact and shall be entitled to advice of counsel and other consultants or experts concerning all matters pertaining to such duties. Each Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same may also from time to time, when such Agent deems it to be necessary or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach desirable, perform any and all of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent duties and exercise its rights and powers hereunder or under any Facility Documentother Credit Document by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by the Agent (each, a “Supplemental Agent”). Each Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through their respective Related Parties; provided, however, that no such Supplemental Agent shall be authorized to take any action with respect to any Collateral unless and except to the extent expressly authorized in writing by the Collateral Trustee. Should any instrument in writing from the Borrower or any other Credit Party be required by any Supplemental Agent so appointed by an Agent to more fully or certainly vest in and confirm to such Supplemental Agent such rights, powers, privileges and duties, the Collateral Borrower shall, or shall cause such Credit Party to, execute, acknowledge and deliver any and all such instruments promptly upon request by the Agent. If any Supplemental Agent, or successor thereto, shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all rights, powers, privileges and duties of such Supplemental Agent, to the extent permitted by applicable law, shall automatically vest in and be exercised by the Agent until the appointment of a new Supplemental Agent. The exculpatory provisions of this Section 9 shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of each Agent and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Agent. No Agent shall have be responsible for the right negligence or misconduct of any sub-agents except to deliver such sum to the extent that a court of competent jurisdiction determines in a final and therein commence an action for interpleadernon-appealable judgment that the Agent acted with gross negligence or willful misconduct in the selection of such sub-agents. (cd) If In relation to any Swiss Security Agreements under which security of an accessory nature (akzessorische Sicherheit) is granted (the “Swiss Accessory Security Agreements”), each present and future Lender and any other Secured Party hereby appoints and authorizes the Collateral Trustee for the benefit of the Lenders and the Secured Parties to, with respect to such security of an accessory nature (akzessorische Sicherheit), take all action and exercise all powers and discretion in performing the name and for the account of such Secured Party as its duties direct representative (direkter Stellvertreter), including, without limitation, (i) to sign the relevant Swiss Accessory Security Agreements in its name, (ii) to accept, hold, administer and, if necessary, enforce the security granted under any of the Swiss Accessory Security Agreements, (iii) to agree to amendments, restatements and other alterations of the Swiss Accessory Security Agreements, (iv) to effect any release of the security under, and the termination of, any Swiss Accessory Security Agreements, and (v) to exercise such other rights, powers, authorities and discretions granted to the Collateral Trustee hereunder or under the relevant Swiss Accessory Security Agreements. In relation to any Swiss Security Agreements under which security of an non-accessory nature (nicht-akzessorische Sicherheit) is granted, each present and future Lender and other Secured Party hereby appoints and authorizes the Collateral Trustee for the benefit of the Lenders and the Secured Parties to, with respect to such security of an non-accessory nature (nicht-akzessorische Sicherheit), take all action and exercise all powers and discretion in the name of the Collateral Trustee but for the account of such Secured Party as its indirect representative (indirekter Stellvertreter). (e) In no event shall the Administrative Agent be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, without limitation, strikes, work stoppages, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software and hardware) services. (f) For the avoidance of doubt and notwithstanding anything contrary in any Credit Document, in the event of inconsistency between the terms of this AgreementSection 9 of this Agreement and any other Credit Document, the terms of this Section 9 of this Agreement shall prevail. (g) Notwithstanding anything in the Credit Documents to the contrary, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses Trustee shall have no responsibility for the preparation, filing or recording of actionany instrument, it may request written instructions from document or financing statement or for the Administrative Agent as to the course perfection or maintenance of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructionssecurity interest created hereunder.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender on its own behalf (and, in for the case purposes of Article 10 and the Collateral AgentSwap Guarantee, the Administrative Agenton behalf of each of its Affiliates which is or becomes a Swap Lender) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as be its agent in its name and on its behalf and to exercise such rights or powers granted to the Agent or the Lenders under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by specifically provided herein and on the terms hereof and thereofhereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document thereto and the transactions contemplated Agent hereby or therebyaccepts such appointment and authorization. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or Agreement, the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but but, subject to Section 14.9, shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Majority Lenders (orand such instructions shall be binding upon all Lenders; provided, with respect to however, that the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes the Agent to liability in such capacity or which could result in the Agent’s incurring any costs and expenses, in its judgmentwithout provision being made for indemnity of the Agent by the Lenders against any loss, to personal liability, cost or expense incurred, or to be incurred or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents Agreement or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable mannerLaws. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officerExcept as provided otherwise in Section 14.1(e), agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to where the terms of this Agreement or the Security refer to any other Facility Document even if, at action to be taken hereunder or thereunder by the time Lenders or to any such action is that requires the consent, approval, satisfaction, agreement or other determination of the Lenders, the action taken by any such Personand the consent, approval, satisfaction, agreement or other determination given or made by the Majority Lenders shall constitute the action or consent, approval, agreement or other determination of the Lenders herein or therein referred to. (c) Except as provided otherwise in this Section 14.1, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver take such sum actions as it deems necessary, or to a court refrain from taking such actions or to give agreements, consents, approvals or instructions to the Borrower on behalf of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleaderthe Lenders in respect of all matters referred to in or contemplated by this Agreement. (cd) If Except as provided otherwise in performing Section 14.1(e) or where this Agreement expressly requires that any matter be determined or consented to by all the Lenders, any provision of this Agreement may be amended only if the Borrower and the Majority Lenders so agree in writing and any Default or Event of Default may be waived before or after it occurs only if the Majority Lenders so agree in writing. (e) Any amendment, extension or waiver of, or consent or determination relating to, the terms of this Agreement which changes or relates to: (i) the Total Commitment or the Commitment of any Lender except as permitted by this Agreement; (ii) a decrease in the rates, or an extension in the dates of payment, of interest payable hereunder; (iii) a decrease in the amount, or an extension in the dates of payment, of fees payable hereunder except for (A) fronting fees payable pursuant to Section 3.5 (which may be varied with the consent of the LC Issuer) and (B) agency fees payable pursuant to Section 3.8 (which may be varied with the consent of the Agent); (iv) a decrease in the amount, or an extension in the dates of payment, of principal required hereunder; (v) the types of Advances available hereunder; (vi) the extension provisions in Section 2.3 except for the notice periods referred to therein; (vii) an assignment or transfer by the Borrower of any or all of its duties rights and obligations under this Agreement; (viii) any release of the Security; (ix) any assignment or transfer by a Restricted Subsidiary of, or release or amendment of, any or all of its obligations under any Restricted Subsidiary Guarantee not provided for hereunder; (x) Section 14.17 (a)(ii); or (xi) this Section 14.1(e); shall require the unanimous consent in writing of all the Lenders; provided that: (A) any amendment or waiver which changes or relates to the rights or obligations of the Agent, any LC Issuer or the Swing Line Lender shall also require the agreement of the Agent, the Collateral Agent LC Issuer or such Swing Line Lender, as applicable; and (B) any amendment or waiver which changes or relates to Section 10.3 or this paragraph (B) or which would adversely affect in any material way the Security insofar as it pertains to a Swap Lender shall also require the agreement of the Swap Lender so affected; and all references to unanimous consent in such context shall be construed accordingly. (f) If any matter requiring unanimous consent of the Lenders pursuant to Section 14.1(e) is required approved by the Majority Lenders (the “Consenting Lenders”) but there are Lenders which did not agree to decide between alternative courses provide their consent (each being a “Non-Consenting Lender”), then: (i) the Borrower may require any Non-Consenting Lender to assign all of actionits rights, it may request written instructions from benefits and interests under its Commitments and its Pro Rata Shares of all Loan Indebtedness then outstanding (collectively, the Administrative Agent as “Assigned Interests”) to (A) any Consenting Lenders which have agreed to increase their Commitments and purchase Assigned Interests, and (B) to the course extent the Assigned Interests are not transferred to Consenting Lenders, assignees selected by the Borrower and acceptable to the Agent and any LC Issuer, each acting reasonably. Such assignments shall be effective upon execution of action desired Lender Assignment Agreements, upon payment to the relevant Non-Consenting Lender (in immediately available funds) by itthe relevant assignee of an amount equal to its Pro Rata Shares of all Loan Indebtedness being assigned, upon execution of an intercreditor agreement if requested by such Non-Consenting Lender pursuant to Section 10.3 (but only if such Non-Consenting Lender or its Affiliate is a Swap Lender) and upon payment by the relevant assignee to the Agent (for the Agent’s own account) of the transfer fee contemplated in Section 15.1(b). If the Collateral Agent does not receive Upon such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested themassignment and transfer, the Collateral Agent Non-Consenting Lender shall have no further right, interest or obligation in respect of the Assigned Interests and the assignee thereof shall succeed to the position of such Lender as if the same was an original party hereto in the place and stead of such Non-Consenting Lender; and (ii) to the extent that the Borrower has not caused any Non-Consenting Lender to assign its rights and interests to a Consenting Lender or other assignee as provided in paragraph (i) above, the Borrower may, at any time and notwithstanding any other provision hereof, repay to such Non-Consenting Lender its Pro Rata Shares of all Loan Indebtedness then outstanding, without making corresponding repayments to the Consenting Lenders, and the Borrower may cancel such Non-Consenting Lender’s Commitments; provided that such cancellation shall require the prior consent of all of the Consenting Lenders and shall also require the execution of an intercreditor agreement if requested by such Non-Consenting Lender pursuant to Section 10.3 (but only if such Non-Consenting Lender or its Affiliate is a Swap Lender). Upon completion of the foregoing, such Non-Consenting Lender shall have no further right, interest, benefit or obligation in respect of the Credit Facility and the Total Commitment shall be reduced by the amount of such Non-Consenting Lender’s cancelled Commitments; provided that the Borrower may only exercise its rights under no duty to, take this Section 14.1(f) by giving notice to the Agent of its intent to do so within 60 days after being notified of the lack of unanimous consent and then only if all of the Commitments of all of the Non-Consenting Lenders are assigned or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act cancelled in accordance with instructions received after such five (5the provisions of this Section 14.1(f). Any assignment or prepayment pursuant to this Section 14.1(f) Business Day period except shall be subject to the extent it has alreadyindemnification provisions in Sections 13.2(d) and 13.2(e), in good faith, taken if applicable. (g) The Agent shall declare an Event of Default and demand payment under Section 11.2 of any or committed itself all of the Loan Indebtedness when directed to take, action inconsistent with such instructionsdo so by written notice of the Majority Lenders.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender Purchaser appoints Cutter, as its agent (andin such capacity, in "Agent"), for the case purposes of collecting payments, electing to exercise the rights of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent Purchasers under this Agreement and the Collateral other Transaction Documents as herein and therein provided. For such purposes, each Purchaser authorizes Agent on behalf of such Purchaser to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such rights, powers and discretions as are expressly delegated to it under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, and the other Facility Transaction Documents as are delegated to such Agent by and on the terms hereof and thereof, or thereof together with such other rights, powers and discretions as are reasonably incidental thereto; provided always, subject to however, that, without the terms hereof. No consent of the Purchasers, Agent shall have not effect or agree to any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or change in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party interest rate, payment dates, maturity date or conversion rights under the Debentures. Agent may perform any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenantsof its duties hereunder or thereunder by or through its agents, functions, responsibilities, duties officers or obligations or liabilities on the part of such employees. Agent shall not be read into this Agreement required to exercise any right, power or discretion or take any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) action as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility DocumentsTransaction Documents (including, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any actionwithout limitation, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions enforcement of the Required Lenders (or, with respect collection of any amounts owing to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative AgentPurchasers hereunder); provided that such . Agent shall not be required to exercise any right, power or discretion or to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, Agent to personal liability, cost liability or expense risk thereof or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Transaction Documents or Applicable Lawapplicable law. The duties of Agent, or would beas agent, shall be mechanical and administrative in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Lawnature. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it Agent shall not have, by reason of this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents, a fiduciary relationship in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable mannerrespect of either Purchaser. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer only act on behalf of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of Purchasers in dealings and communications with the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts Company as set out in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but and shall be under no duty tothe only person to so act, take or refrain from taking any such courses of actionexcept as may be otherwise agreed in writing between the parties hereto. The Collateral Company and the Subsidiaries may rely upon the grant and delegation of authority provided in this Section 8 from each of the Purchasers to Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructionswithout further inquiry.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral each Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, and the other Facility Loan Documents as are delegated to such the Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject thereto and authorizes the Collateral Agent to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities act on the part instruction of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or therebyAdministrative Agent. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement the Loan Documents (including enforcement or collection of the other Facility DocumentsObligations of the Loan Parties), no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders, and such instructions shall be binding upon all Lenders (orand all holders of Notes; provided, with respect to the Collateral Agenthowever, the Administrative Agent); provided that such no Agent shall not be required to take any action which that exposes such Agent, in its judgment, Agent to personal liability, cost liability or expense or which that is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Loan Document or under Applicable Lawapplicable law. Each Agent agrees to give to each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise prompt notice of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any each notice given to it by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders Borrower pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. (b) Any Agent may execute any of its duties under this Agreement or any other Facility Loan Document even if, (including for purposes of holding or enforcing any Lien on the Collateral (or any portion thereof) granted under the Collateral Documents or of exercising any rights and remedies thereunder at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer direction of the Collateral Agent) by or through agents, employees or attorneys-in-fact and shall be entitled to advice of counsel and other consultants or experts concerning all matters pertaining to such duties. The Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless may also from time to time, when the Collateral Agent acts in breach deems it to be necessary or desirable, appoint one or more collateral co-agents, collateral subagents or attorneys-in-fact (each, a “Supplemental Collateral Agent”) with respect to all or any part of its standard of care hereunder. If the Collateral; provided, however, that no such Supplemental Collateral Agent shall be authorized to take any dispute or disagreement shall arise as action with respect to any Collateral unless and except to the allocation extent expressly authorized in writing by the Collateral Agent; provided, further, that the Borrower shall not be obligated to pay any incremental expenses of such Supplemental Collateral Agent without its written consent, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld. Should any sum of money received instrument in writing from the Borrower or any other Loan Party be required by any Supplemental Collateral Agent so appointed by the Collateral Agent hereunder to more fully or under certainly vest in and confirm to such Supplemental Collateral Agent such rights, powers, privileges and duties, the Borrower shall, or shall cause such Loan Party to, execute, acknowledge and deliver any Facility Documentand all such instruments promptly upon request by the Collateral Agent. If any Supplemental Collateral Agent, or successor thereto, shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all rights, powers, privileges and duties of such Supplemental Collateral Agent, to the extent permitted by law, shall automatically vest in and be exercised by the Collateral Agent until the appointment of a new Supplemental Collateral Agent. No Agent shall have be responsible for the right to deliver such sum to a court negligence or misconduct of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreementany agent, the attorney-in-fact or Supplemental Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, that it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act selects in accordance with instructions received after the foregoing provisions of this Section 7.01(b) in the absence of such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken Agent’s gross negligence or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructionswillful misconduct.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) Purchaser hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent Administrator (or its designees) to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent the Administrator by the terms hereof and thereofhereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The Administrator shall not have any duties other than those expressly set forth herein or any fiduciary relationship with any Purchaser or Agent, subject and no implied obligations or liabilities shall be read into this Agreement, or otherwise exist, against the Administrator. The Administrator does not assume, nor shall it be deemed to have assumed, any obligation to, or relationship of trust or agency with, the Seller or Servicer. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to the contrary, in no event shall the Administrator ever be required to take any action which exposes the Administrator to personal liability or which is contrary to the provision of any Transaction Document or Applicable Law. (b) Each Purchaser hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the respective institution identified as its Agent on the signature pages hereto, and each authorizes such Agent to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as are expressly delegated to such Agent by the terms hereofof this Agreement, if any, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. No Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary elsewhere in this Agreement, no Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party herein, or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Purchaser or other Agent or the Administrator, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or duties, obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes otherwise exist against such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If Except as otherwise specifically provided in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses provisions of actionthis Article XI are solely for the benefit of the Agents, it the Administrator and the Purchasers, and none of the Seller or Servicer shall have any rights as a third-party beneficiary or otherwise under any of the provisions of this Article XI, except that this Article XI shall not affect any obligations which any Agent, the Administrator or any Purchaser may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as have to the course Seller or the Servicer under the other provisions of action desired by itthis Agreement. If Furthermore, no Purchaser shall have any rights as a third-party beneficiary or otherwise under any of the Collateral provisions hereof in respect of an Agent which is not the Agent for such Purchaser. (d) In performing its functions and duties hereunder, the Administrator shall act solely as the agent of the Purchasers and the Agents and does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but assume nor shall be under no duty todeemed to have assumed any obligation or relationship of trust or agency with or for the Seller or Servicer or any of their successors and assigns. In performing its functions and duties hereunder, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral each Agent shall act in accordance solely as the agent of its respective Purchaser and does not assume nor shall be deemed to have assumed any obligation or relationship of trust or agency with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to or for the extent it has alreadySeller, in good faiththe Servicer, taken any other Purchaser, any other Agent or committed itself to takethe Administrator, action inconsistent with such instructionsor any of their respective successors and assigns.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereofhereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any no duties or responsibilities, responsibilities except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, this Agreement. The duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into mechanical and administrative in nature; Agent shall not have by reason of this Agreement a fiduciary relationship in respect of any Lender; and nothing in this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, expressed or implied, is intended to or shall be so construed as to impose upon Agent any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities obligations in respect of this Agreement or any the other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or therebyLoan Documents except as expressly set forth herein. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement Agreement, including enforcement or collection of the other Facility DocumentsLoan, no Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from actingrefraining) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (orMajority Lenders, with respect to the Collateral Agentand such instructions shall be binding upon all Lenders, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, Agent to personal liability, cost or expense liability or which is contrary to this Agreementthe Loan Documents or applicable law and provided, further, that without the consent of all Lenders, Agent shall not: (i) change or modify the Commitment, any Lender's Pro Rata Share, or Funded Pro Rata Share of the Commitment, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise definition of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions "Available Amount" (or by refusing to provide instruction) any component used in calculating Available Amount including any defined term contained in the definition of Available Amount with respect to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither use of such defined term therein), the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to definition of "Majority Lenders," the terms of this Agreement Section 10.1, the timing or rates of interest payments, the timing or amount of facility fees, the timing or amounts of principal payments due in respect of the Loan, any forgiveness of all or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent portion of Revolving Loans or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer extension of the Collateral Agent maturity date thereof, any provision in this Agreement requiring approval by a certain percentage of Lenders; or (ii) waive any Event of Default under Section 9.1(m) hereof; and provided, further, that the terms of Section 2.3 and this Article 10 shall have actual knowledge not be amended without the prior written consent of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.Agent

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither If the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent has been requested or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken directed by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the terms Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting shall otherwise be construed to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of require the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Documentdoubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have the any duty or obligation to take any action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties it under this Agreement, Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related Document unless and until directed by the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from Required Lenders (or the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructionson their behalf).

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Collateral Agent Administrator to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents Documents, as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Majority Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders) to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related Document unless and until directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable (or the Administrative Agent on their behalf). (c) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders) pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such notice, unless a except where the Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have has actual knowledge (without any duty of inquiry or investigation on its part) that the same Majority Lenders or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunderRequired Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such notice. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (cd) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and thereofhereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The Borrower hereby appoints Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas as the registrar and paying agent in respect of the Loans (together with any successor or successors as such registrar and paying agent qualified and appointed in accordance with this Article IX, the “Paying Agent”), upon the terms and subject to the terms hereofconditions set forth herein, and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas hereby accepts such appointment. No The Paying Agent shall have the powers and authority granted to and conferred upon it herein, and such further powers and authority to act on behalf of the Borrower as the Borrower and the Paying Agent may hereafter mutually agree in writing. Neither the Administrative Agent nor the Paying Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except other than those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Transaction Documents, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement any Transaction Document, or otherwise exist, against the Administrative Agent or the Paying Agent. The Administrative Agent and the Paying Agent do not assume, nor shall either of them be deemed to have assumed, any obligation to, or relationship of trust or agency with, Tesla, Inc., TFL or any other Facility Document to which such Tesla Party, the Conduit Lenders, the Committed Lenders or the Group Agents, except for any obligations expressly set forth herein; provided, that all funds held by the Paying Agent is a party for payment of principal of or interest (if anyand any additional amounts) on the Loans shall be held in trust by the Paying Agent, and applied as duties on its part to be performed or observedset forth herein. No Agent shall have or be construed to have Notwithstanding any other duties or responsibilities in respect provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and Transaction Document, in no event shall the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement Administrative Agent or the other Facility Documents, no Paying Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not ever be required to take any action which exposes such the Administrative Agent or the Paying Agent, in its judgmentrespectively, to personal liability, cost or expense liability or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility provision of any Transaction Document or under Applicable Lawapplicable law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which Upon receiving a notice, report, statement, document or other communication from the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent Borrower or the Required Lenders Servicer pursuant to the terms of this Agreement Section 2.01(d)(i), Section 2.01(d)(iii), Section 2.08, Section 6.03(a), Section 6.03(c) or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such PersonSection 7.02(c), the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting shall promptly deliver to be the Administrative each Group Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give a copy of such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral report, statement, document or communication. The Paying Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement at the request or direction of any of the Borrower or the Lenders, unless such Borrower or Lender shall have offered to the Paying Agent security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to the Paying Agent against the costs, expenses and liabilities that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction. The Paying Agent shall not be responsible for, and makes no representation as to the existence, genuineness, value or protection of any Collateral, for the legality, effectiveness or sufficiency of any documents or other instruments, or for the creation, perfection, filing, priority, sufficiency or protection of any liens securing the Loans. The Paying Agent shall incur no liability for not performing any act or fulfilling any duty, obligation or responsibility hereunder by reason of any occurrence beyond the control of the Paying Agent (including, but not limited to, take any act or refrain from taking provision of any such courses present or future law or regulation or governmental authority, any act of action. The Collateral Agent shall God, any pandemic or epidemic, war, civil unrest, local or national disturbance or disaster, any act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to of terrorism or the extent it has already, in good faith, taken unavailability of the Federal Reserve Bank wire or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructionsfacsimile or other wire or communication facility).

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Majority Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide USActive 54953942.1755479929.4-138- for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders), to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related Document unless and until directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable (or the Administrative Agent on their behalf). (c) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any direction, instruction or notice given by the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders), pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such direction, instruction or notice, unless a except where the Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have has actual knowledge (without any duty of inquiry or investigation on its part) that the same Majority Lenders or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunderRequired Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such direction, instruction or notice. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (cd) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Borrower or the Servicer, prior to the occurrence and continuation of an Event of Default, or the Administrative Agent Agent, after the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The USActive 54953942.1755479929.4-139- Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) Lenders hereby irrevocably appoints each Agent as its agent and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral each such Agent to take such action as agent actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereofof the Loan Documents, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. (b) Any Lender serving as an Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not an Agent, subject and such Lender and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to the terms hereof. and generally engage in any kind of business with CMS Energy or any of its Subsidiaries or other Affiliate thereof as if it were not an Agent hereunder. (c) No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, obligations except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (i) no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, (ii) no Agent shall have any other Facility Document duty to which take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated by the Loan Documents that such Agent is a party required to exercise in writing by the Required Lenders (if anyor such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 11.01), and (iii) except as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities expressly set forth in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Loan Documents, no Agent shall be required have any duty to exercise any discretion disclose, or take any action, but shall be required liable for the failure to act disclose, any information relating to CMS Energy or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates that is communicated to refrain from acting (and or obtained by the Lender serving as such Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity. No Agent shall be fully protected in so acting liable for any action taken or refraining from acting) upon not taken by it with the written instructions consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or, with respect or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 11.01 or any other provision of this Agreement) or in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. Each Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default or Event of Default unless and until written notice thereof is given to such Agent by the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that Borrower or a Lender (in which case such Agent shall not promptly give a copy of such written notice to the Lenders and the other Agents). No Agent shall be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (A) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with any Loan Document, (B) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered thereunder or in connection therewith, (C) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth in any Loan Document, (D) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of any Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document, or (E) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article VI or elsewhere in any Loan Document, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to take any action which exposes be delivered to such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (bd) Neither the Collateral Each Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or sent by the proper Person. Each Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to be made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. Each Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by any such Person it in accordance with the advice of any notice given such counsel, accountants or experts. (e) Each Agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through one or more sub-agents appointed by such Agent. Each Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of the Administrative preceding subsections of this Section 10.01 shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of each Agent or and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as an Agent. (f) Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor Agent as provided in this subsection (f), any Agent may resign at any time by notifying the Lenders and the Borrower. Upon any such resignation, the Required Lenders pursuant shall have the right, in consultation with the Borrower, to appoint a successor. If no successor shall have been so appointed by the terms Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Agent which shall be a Lender with an office in New York, New York, or an Affiliate of any such Lender. Upon the acceptance of its appointment as an Agent hereunder by a successor, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Agent, and the retiring Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder. The fees payable by the Borrower to a successor Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Borrower and such successor. After an Agent's resignation hereunder, the provisions of this Agreement Article and Section 11.04 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while it was acting as an Agent. (g) Each Lender acknowledges that it has independently and without reliance upon any Agent or any other Facility Document even ifLender and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, at the time such action is taken by made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent not taking action under or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under based upon this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of any other Loan Document or any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder. Each Lender agrees (except as provided in Section 11.05) that it will not take any legal action, it nor institute any actions or proceedings, against the Borrower or any other obligor hereunder or with respect to any Collateral, without the prior written consent of the Required Lenders. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, no Lender may request written instructions from accelerate or otherwise enforce its portion of the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested themLoans, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act unilaterally terminate its Commitment except in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructionsSection 9.02.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party Documents, or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Party, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Administrative Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Administrative Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No The Administrative Agent shall not have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or therebyhereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no the Administrative Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent)Lenders; provided that such Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Administrative Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the such Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or or, by refusing to provide instruction) to the such Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in and the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) Swingline Lender hereby irrevocably appoints Xxxxx Fargo as Agent and authorizes Agent to act as its agent under the Administrative Agent Loan Documents, and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent actions on its such Lender Party's behalf and to exercise such powers and perform such duties under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Loan Documents as are expressly delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any no duties or responsibilities, responsibilities except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Loan Documents, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations duties, obligations, or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement any Loan Document or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observedotherwise exist against Agent. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect Anything to the Collateral Agentcontrary contained herein notwithstanding, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Loan Document or under Applicable Lawapplicable law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof other Lender Party shall be personally liable responsible to any other Lender Party for any recitals, statements, representations, or warranties made by Borrower contained in any Loan Document, for the value, validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability, or sufficiency of any Loan Document or the Collateral or for any failure by Borrower to perform its respective obligations hereunder or thereunder. Agent may employ agents and attorneys-in-fact and shall not be responsible to any Lender Party for the negligence or misconduct of any such agents or attorneys- in-fact selected by it with reasonable care. Neither Agent nor any of its directors, officers, employees, or agents shall be responsible to any Lender Party for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it or them under any Loan Document or in connection therewith, except for its or their own gross negligence or wilful misconduct. Except as otherwise provided under this Credit Agreement, Agent shall take such Person in accordance action with any notice given respect to the Loan Documents as shall be directed by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleaderMajority Lenders. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case on behalf of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agentitself and its Affiliates as potential Hedge Banks) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, and the other Facility Loan Documents as are delegated to such the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, enforcement or collection of the other Facility DocumentsObligations of the Loan Parties), no the Administrative Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (orLenders, with respect to the Collateral Agentand such instructions shall be binding upon all Lenders, all Hedge Banks and all holders of Term C Notes; provided, however, that the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which that exposes such Agent, in its judgment, the Administrative Agent to personal liability, cost liability or expense or which that is contrary to this Agreement, Agreement or applicable law. (b) The Administrative Agent may execute any of its duties under this Agreement or any other Loan Document (including for purposes of holding or enforcing any Lien on the other Facility Collateral (or any portion thereof) granted under the Collateral Documents or Applicable Lawof exercising any rights and remedies thereunder at the direction of the Collateral Agent) by or through agents, employees or would be, in its judgment, contrary attorneys-in-fact and shall be entitled to its duties hereunder, under any advice of counsel and other Facility Document consultants or under Applicable Lawexperts concerning all matters pertaining to such duties. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the The Administrative Agent’s consent may Agent shall not be unreasonably withheld, provide responsible for the exercise negligence or misconduct of any agent or attorney-in-fact that it selects in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Section 7.01(b) in the absence of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, gross negligence or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable mannerwillful misconduct. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (aA) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, and the other Facility Loan Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement in the Loan Documents as being subject to the consent, direction or approval of Agent, such matters shall be subject to the other Facility Documentssole discretion of Agent, no its directors, officers, agents and employees, without the approval of any Lender. Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (orLenders, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that and such instructions shall be binding upon all Lender Parties and all holders of Notes. Agent shall not be entitled to request instructions from the Required Lenders in exercising any discretion or taking any action and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting upon the instructions of the Required Lenders, and such instructions shall be binding upon all Lender Parties and all holders of Notes. In no event shall Agent be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, that Agent believes to personal liability, cost or expense or which is be contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents Agreement or Applicable applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (bB) Neither Notwithstanding the Collateral Agent nor any officerpreceding, agent each of the following shall require the approval or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or consent of the Required Lenders pursuant Lenders: (1) The exercise of any rights and remedies under the Loan Documents following an Event of Default, provided that absent any direction from the Required Lenders, Agent may exercise any right or remedy under the Loan Documents as Agent may determine in good faith to be necessary or appropriate to protect the terms Lenders; (2) Appointment of a successor Agent; (3) Approval of any amendment or modification of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge other Loan Documents, or issuance of any waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation other Loan Documents; and (4) Any waiver of any sum Default or Event of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleaderDefault. (cC) If in performing its duties under Notwithstanding the preceding, each of the following shall require the approval or consent of all the Lenders: (1) Any extension of the Maturity Date, any forgiveness of all or any portion of the principal amount of the Loan or any accrued interest thereon, or any other amendment of this AgreementAgreement or the other Loan Documents which would reduce the Margin, or the Collateral Agent is rate at which interest or any Fees are calculated, or forgive any Fees, or extend the time of payment of or of any grace or cure period with respect to the payment of any principal, interest or Fees; (2) Any modification of the definition of "Required Lenders" or any other provision hereof specifying the number or percentage of Lenders required to decide between alternative courses amend, waiver or otherwise modify any rights hereunder or make any determination or grant any consent hereunder; (3) Any increase of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to amount of the course Loan; (4) Any release of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five any Borrower Party; (5) Business Days after it has requested them, Any amendment to the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take Financial Covenants set forth in Section 6.3 hereof or refrain from taking the waiver of any Default arising therefrom; provided that if there is more than two (2) Lenders party to this Agreement at any given time then any such courses amendment or waiver shall only require the approval of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five the Required Lenders; and (56) Business Day period except to Any amendment of the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructionsprovisions of this Article 8.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Majority Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (a) If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders) to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the -117- Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related Document unless and until directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable (or the Administrative Agent on their behalf). (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders) pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such notice, unless a except where the Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have has actual knowledge (without any duty of inquiry or investigation on its part) that the same Majority Lenders or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunderRequired Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such notice. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Majority Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (bi) If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders), to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related Document unless and until directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable (or the Administrative Agent on their behalf). (a) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any direction, instruction or notice given by the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders), pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such direction, instruction or notice, unless a except where the Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have has actual knowledge (without any duty of inquiry or investigation on its part) that the same Majority Lenders or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunderRequired Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such direction, instruction or notice. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (cb) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Borrower or the Servicer, with a copy to the Administrative Agent Agent, prior to the occurrence and continuation of an Event of Default, or the Administrative Agent, after the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or nor any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Majority Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders) to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related Document unless and until directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable (or the Administrative Agent on their behalf). (c) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders) pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such notice, unless a except where the Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have has actual knowledge (without any duty of inquiry or investigation on its part) that the same Majority Lenders or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunderRequired Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such notice. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (cd) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Majority Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders) to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related Document unless and until directed in writing by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable (or the Administrative Agent on their behalf) and the Collateral Agent shall have been provided indemnity acceptable to it against any expenditure, risk, cost, expense or liability in acting on such direction. (c) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any direction, instruction or notice given by the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders) pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such direction, instruction or notice, unless a except where the Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have has actual knowledge (without any duty of inquiry or investigation on its part) that the same Majority Lenders or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunderRequired Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such direction, instruction or notice. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (cd) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Borrower or the Servicer, prior to the occurrence and continuation of an Event of Default, or the Administrative Agent Agent, after the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) The Company and each Bank Investor hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action act as its agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, and the other Transaction Documents with such powers and discretion as are specifically delegated to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof of this Agreement and thereofthe other Transaction Documents, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The Agent (which term as used in this sentence and in Section 9.5 and the first sentence of Section 9.6 hereof shall include its affiliates and its own and its affiliates' officers, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent directors, employees, and agents): (a) shall not have any duties or responsibilities, responsibilities except those expressly set forth herein in this Agreement and shall not be a trustee or fiduciary for the Company or any Bank Investor; (b) shall not be responsible to the Company or any Bank Investor for any recital, statement, representation, or warranty (whether written or oral) made in or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party connection with any Transaction Document or any fiduciary relationship with certificate or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by any Secured Party and no implied covenantsof them under, functionsany Transaction Document, responsibilitiesor for the value, duties validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability, or obligations or liabilities on the part sufficiency of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement any Transaction Document, or any other Facility Document document referred to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have provided for therein or be construed to have for any other duties failure by any of the Debtor, the Designated Sellers or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement the Servicer or any other Facility Document and Person to perform any of its obligations thereunder; (c) shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain, inquire into, or verify the transactions contemplated hereby performance or thereby. As to observance of any matters not expressly provided for covenants or agreements by this Agreement either the Debtor, the Designated Sellers or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise Servicer or the satisfaction of any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act condition or to refrain from acting inspect the property (including the books and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from actingrecords) upon the written instructions of any of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral AgentDebtor, the Administrative Agent)Designated Sellers or the Servicer or any of their Subsidiaries or affiliates; provided that such Agent (d) shall not be required to take initiate or conduct any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost litigation or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, collection proceedings under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may Transaction Document; and (e) shall not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable responsible for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it under or in connection with any Transaction Document, except for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Agent may employ agents and attorneys-in-fact and shall not be responsible for the 91 97 negligence or misconduct of any such Person in accordance agents or attorneys-in-fact selected by it with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleaderreasonable care. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Required Lenders to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related Document unless and until directed by the Required Lenders (or the Administrative Agent on their behalf). (c) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (cd) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby Investor irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, and the other Facility Unit Purchase Documents as are delegated to such Agent it by the terms hereof of this Agreement and thereofthe other Unit Purchase Documents, together with such all powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or and the other Facility Unit Purchase Documents, no the Administrative Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from actingdoing) upon the written joint instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Holders which instructions shall be binding upon all Investors. The Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, (i) would expose it to personal liability, cost or expense or which (ii) is contrary to this AgreementAgreement or any applicable law, the other Facility Documents rule, regulation, judgment or Applicable Laworder, (iii) would require it to become registered to do business in any jurisdiction, or (iv) would be, in its judgment, contrary subject it to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Lawtaxation. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide The provisions of this Article are solely for the exercise benefit of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretionAgent and the Investors, and neither the Company nor any other Obligor shall have rights as a third-party beneficiary of any of such provisions. It is understood and agreed that the use of the term "agent" herein or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions any other Unit Purchase Documents (or by refusing to provide instructionany other similar term) with reference to the Administrative Agent withhold is not intended to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express) obligations arising under agency doctrine of any applicable law. Instead such term is used as a matter of market custom, and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between contracting parties. Each Investor hereby authorizes and directs the Administrative Agent (i) to enter into the Intercreditor Agreement on its consent or exercise behalf, perform the Intercreditor Agreement on its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor behalf and take any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given actions thereunder as determined by the Administrative Agent to be necessary or advisable to protect the Required Lenders pursuant interest of the Investors, and each Investor agrees to be bound by the terms of this Agreement or the Intercreditor Agreement; and (ii) to enter into any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, intercreditor agreement satisfactory to the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be on its behalf, perform such intercreditor agreement on its behalf and take any actions thereunder as determined by the Administrative Agent to be necessary or advisable to protect the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer interests of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as Investors, and each Investor agrees to the allocation of any sum of money received be bound by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver terms of such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleaderintercreditor agreement. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Majority Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (a) If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders), to take any action pursuant to any provision of this USActive 54953942.17 -129- Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related Document unless and until directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable (or the Administrative Agent on their behalf). (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any direction, instruction or notice given by the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders), pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such direction, instruction or notice, unless a except where the Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have has actual knowledge (without any duty of inquiry or investigation on its part) that the same Majority Lenders or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunderRequired Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such direction, instruction or notice. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Borrower or the Servicer, prior to the occurrence and continuation of an Event of Default, or the Administrative Agent Agent, after the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) Investor hereby irrevocably designates and appoints TSO-Fortiva Notes Holdco LP, as Agent hereunder, and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action actions as agent on its behalf behalf, including execution of the other Transaction Documents, and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such the Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, of this Agreement together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No The Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party herein, or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party the Investor, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or duties, obligations or liabilities on the part of such the Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent otherwise exist for the Agent, regardless of whether an Event of Default or Early Redemption Event has occurred and is a party (if any) as continuing. In performing its functions and duties on its part to be performed or observed. No hereunder, the Agent shall have or act solely as agent for the Investors and does not assume nor shall be construed deemed to have assumed any other duties obligation or responsibilities in respect relationship of trust or agency with or for the Issuer, the Transferor or the Servicer or any of their successors or assigns. The provisions of this Agreement or any other Facility Document Article are solely for the benefit of the Agent and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement Investors, and none of the Issuer, the Transferor or the other Facility Documents, no Agent Servicer shall be required to exercise have any discretion or take rights as a third party beneficiary of any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such provisions. The Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, the Agent to personal liability, cost or expense liability or which is contrary to this AgreementAgreement or applicable law. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (i) the Agent shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers; provided that, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would beAgent shall not be required to take any action that, in its judgmentopinion or the opinion of its counsel, may expose the Agent to liability or that is contrary to its duties hereunderany Transaction Document or applicable law, including for the avoidance of doubt any action that may be in violation of the automatic stay under any applicable law, and (ii) except as expressly set forth in the Transaction Documents, the Agent shall not have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to the Issuer, the Transferor, the Servicer or any of their respective Affiliates that is communicated to or obtained by the Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity. The Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Event of Default or Early Redemption Event unless and until written notice thereof is given to Agent by the Issuer, the Transferor, the Servicer or an Investor, and the Agent shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (A) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with any Transaction Document, (B) the contents of any certificate, report or other Facility document delivered hereunder or in connection with any Transaction Document, (C) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth in any Transaction Document, (D) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of any Transaction Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that any other agreement, instrument or document, (E) the creation, perfection or priority of Liens on the Trust Estate or the existence of the Trust Estate or (F) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article III or elsewhere in any instance in which Transaction Document, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may . The Agent shall not be unreasonably withheld, provide liable or responsible for the exercise any act or omission of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable mannerAccount Bank. (b) Neither Each Investor and each subsequent Investor hereby consents to the Collateral registration of the Class A Notes in the name of Agent nor any officeras the “Class A Noteholder” (as defined in the Indenture Supplement) solely for the purposes of administration and convenience, agent or representative thereof and that as such Class A Noteholder, the Agent shall have no beneficial ownership interest in the Class A Notes. Without limiting the authorization of and delegation to the Agent set forth in the foregoing Section 7.1(a), it is hereby acknowledged and agreed that all payments in respect of the Class A Notes and in respect of fees and other amounts owing to the Investors under this Agreement shall, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given remitted by the Administrative applicable payor to the Agent or as the Required Lenders pursuant Class A Noteholder, and the Agent in such capacity shall distribute all such amounts, promptly following receipt thereof, to the applicable parties in interest according to their respective interests therein, determined by reference to the terms of the Indenture, the Indenture Supplement, this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at and the time such action is taken by any such PersonAgent’s books and records relating to the Class A Notes, the Administrative Agent or Indenture, the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be Indenture Supplement and this Agreement (it being agreed that the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give entries made in such notice, unless a Responsible Officer books and records of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction be conclusive and therein commence an action binding for interpleaderall purposes absent manifest error). (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this USActive 59109857.1659109857.18 Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunderwith gross negligence, fraud or willful misconduct. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative its related Funding Agent and the Collateral Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Funding Agent or the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereofhereof and thereof. No Neither the Administrative Agent nor any Funding Agent (the Administrative Agent and each Funding Agent being referred to in this Article as an “Agent”) shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party Documents, or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Party, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such any Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such any Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or therebyhereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no each Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of (i) in the case of the Administrative Agent, the Required Lenders or the Funding Agents, as applicable, and (or, with respect to ii) in the Collateral case of any Funding Agent, the Administrative majority of Lenders (based on each Lender’s Commitment) in such Funding Agent)’s Facility Group; provided that such no Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such the Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, WEIL:\99621584\14\35899.0654 or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative an Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or or, by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) Buyers and each Bank Investor hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action act as its agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, and the other Transaction Documents with such powers and discretion as are specifically delegated to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof of this Agreement and thereofthe other Transaction Documents, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The Agent (which term as used in this sentence and in Section 9.5 and the first sentence of Section 9.6 hereof shall include its affiliates and its own and its affiliates' officers, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent directors, employees, and agents): (a) shall not have any duties or responsibilities, responsibilities except those expressly set forth herein in this Agreement and shall not be a trustee or fiduciary for the Buyers or any Bank Investor; (b) shall not be responsible to the Buyers or any Bank Investor for any recital, statement, representation or warranty (whether written or oral) made in or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party connection with any Transaction Document or any fiduciary relationship with certificate or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by any Secured Party and no implied covenantsof them under, functionsany Transaction Document, responsibilitiesor for the value, duties validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability, or obligations or liabilities on the part sufficiency of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement any Transaction Document, or any other Facility Document document referred to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have provided for therein or be construed to have for any other duties or responsibilities in respect failure by any of this Agreement the Transferor, CAC, CompuCredit or any other Facility Document and Person to perform any of its obligations thereunder; (c) shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain, inquire into, or verify the transactions contemplated hereby performance or thereby. As to observance of any matters not expressly provided for covenants or agreements by this Agreement any of the Transferor, CAC or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise Servicer or the satisfaction of any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act condition or to refrain from acting inspect the property (including the books and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from actingrecords) upon the written instructions of any of the Required Lenders Transferor, CAC or the Servicer or any of their Subsidiaries or Affiliates; (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent d) shall not be required to take initiate or conduct any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost litigation or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, collection proceedings under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may Transaction Document; and (e) shall not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable responsible for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it under or in connection with any Transaction Document, except for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Agent may employ agents and attorneys-in-fact and shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any such Person in accordance agents or attorneys-in-fact selected by it with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleaderreasonable care. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in and the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) Issuer hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, and the other Facility Loan Documents as are delegated to such the Agent or the Collateral Agent, as the case may be, by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Without limitation of the foregoing, subject each Lender and the Issuer hereby authorizes the Agent (i) to execute and deliver, and to perform its obligations under, each of the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Loan Documents to which it the Agent is or is to be a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants(ii) to exercise all rights, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on powers and remedies that the part of Agent may have under such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party Loan Documents. (if anyb) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or and the other Facility DocumentsLoan Documents (including, no without limitation, enforcement or collection of the Notes), neither the Agent nor the Collateral Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (orMajority Lenders, with respect to and such instructions shall be binding upon all Lenders, the Collateral Issuer, the Agent, the Administrative Agent)Collateral Agent and all holders of Notes; provided provided, however, that such neither the Agent nor the Collateral Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such the Agent or the Collateral Agent, as the case may be, in its judgment, good faith believes exposes it to personal liability, cost liability or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents Agreement or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Lawapplicable law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither and the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken agrees to give to each Lender and the Issuer prompt notice of each notice given to it by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders Loan Party pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any the other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleaderLoan Documents. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) Lenders hereby irrevocably appoints each Agent as its agent and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral each such Agent to take such action as agent actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereofof the Loan Documents, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. (b) Any Lender serving as an Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not an Agent, subject and such Lender and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to the terms hereof. and generally engage in any kind of business with CMS Energy or any of its Subsidiaries or other Affiliate thereof as if it were not an Agent hereunder. (c) No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, obligations except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (i) no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, (ii) no Agent shall have any other Facility Document duty to which take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated by the Loan Documents that such Agent is a party required to exercise in writing by the Required Lenders (if anyor such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 10.01), and (iii) except as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities expressly set forth in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Loan Documents, no Agent shall be required have any duty to exercise any discretion disclose, or take any action, but shall be required liable for the failure to act disclose, any information relating to CMS Energy or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates that is communicated to refrain from acting (and or obtained by the Lender serving as such Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity. No Agent shall be fully protected in so acting liable for any action taken or refraining from acting) upon not taken by it with the written instructions consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or, with respect or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 10.01 or any other provision of this Agreement) or in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. Each Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default or Event of Default unless and until written notice thereof is given to such Agent by the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that Borrower or a Lender (in which case such Agent shall not promptly give a copy of such written notice to the Lenders and the other Agents). No Agent shall be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (A) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with any Loan Document, (B) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered thereunder or in connection therewith, (C) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth in any Loan Document, (D) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of any Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document, or (E) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article V or elsewhere in any Loan Document, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to take any action which exposes be delivered to such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (bd) Neither the Collateral Each Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or sent by the proper Person. Each Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to be made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. Each Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by any such Person it in accordance with the advice of any notice given such counsel, accountants or experts. (e) Each Agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through one or more sub-agents appointed by such Agent. Each Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of the Administrative preceding subsections of this Section 9.01 shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of each Agent or and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as an Agent. (f) Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor Agent as provided in this subsection (f), any Agent may resign at any time by notifying the Lenders and the Borrower. Upon any such resignation, the Required Lenders pursuant shall have the right, in consultation with the Borrower, to appoint a successor. If no successor shall have been so appointed by the terms Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Agent which shall be a Lender with an office in New York, New York, or an Affiliate of any such Lender. Upon the acceptance of its appointment as an Agent hereunder by a successor, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Agent, and the retiring Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder. The fees payable by the Borrower to a successor Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Borrower and such successor. After an Agent's resignation hereunder, the provisions of this Agreement Article and Section 10.04 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while it was acting as an Agent. (g) Each Lender acknowledges that it has independently and without reliance upon any Agent or any other Facility Document even ifLender and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, at the time such action is taken by made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent not taking action under or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under based upon this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of any other Loan Document or any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder. Each Lender agrees (except as provided in Section 10.05) that it will not take any legal action, it nor institute any actions or proceedings, against the Borrower or any other obligor hereunder or with respect to any Collateral, without the prior written consent of the Required Lenders. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, no Lender may request written instructions from accelerate or otherwise enforce its portion of the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested themLoans, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act unilaterally terminate its Commitment except in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructionsSection 8.02.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such the Administrative Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such the Administrative Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No The Administrative Agent shall not have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent is under no duty or responsibility to file financing statements. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no the Administrative Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent)Lenders; provided that such the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such the Administrative Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Facility Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party Documents, or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Party, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or therebyhereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent)Lenders; provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s 's consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s 's reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or or, by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related Document unless and until directed by the Required Lenders (or the Administrative Agent on their behalf). (c) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (cd) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions. The Collateral Agent shall in all events have no liability, risk or cost for any action taken pursuant to and in compliance with the instructions of the Administrative Agent.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Facility Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or Documents, nor any fiduciary relationship with or duty to any Secured Party Party, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or therebyhereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent)Controlling Lenders; provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s 166 reasonable discretion, or provide 167 to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or or, by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, Lenders and the Administrative Agent) Issuing Banks hereby irrevocably appoints each Agent (other than the Co-Syndication Agents and Documentation Agents) as its agent and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral each such Agent to take such action as agent actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereofof the Loan Documents, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. (b) Any Lender serving as an Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not an Agent, subject and such Lender and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to and generally engage in any kind of business with the terms hereof. Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or other Affiliate thereof as if it were not an Agent hereunder. (c) No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, obligations except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (i) no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, (ii) no Agent shall have any other Facility Document duty to which take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated by the Loan Documents that such Agent is a party required to exercise in writing by the Required Lenders (if anyor such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 11.01), and (iii) except as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities expressly set forth in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Loan Documents, no Agent shall be required have any duty to exercise any discretion disclose, or take any action, but shall be required liable for the failure to act disclose, any information relating to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates that is communicated to refrain from acting (and or obtained by the Lender serving as such Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity. No Agent shall be fully protected in so acting liable for any action taken or refraining from acting) upon not taken by it with the written instructions consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or, with respect or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 11.01 or any other provision of this Agreement) or in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. Each Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default or Event of Default unless and until written notice thereof is given to such Agent by the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that Borrower or a Lender (in which case such Agent shall not promptly give a copy of such written notice to the Lenders and the other Agents). No Agent shall be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (A) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with any Loan Document, (B) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered thereunder or in connection therewith, (C) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth in any Loan Document, (D) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of any Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document, or (E) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article VI or elsewhere in any Loan Document, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to take any action which exposes be delivered to such Agent, . Neither any Co-Syndication Agent nor any Documentation Agent shall have any duties or obligations in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, such capacity under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable mannerLoan Documents. (bd) Neither the Collateral Each Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or sent by the proper Person. Each Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to be made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. Each Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by any such Person it in accordance with the advice of any notice given such counsel, accountants or experts. (e) Each Agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through one or more sub-agents appointed by such Agent. Each Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of the Administrative preceding subsections of this Section 10.01 shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of each Agent or and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as an Agent. (f) Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor Agent as provided in this subsection (f), any Agent may resign at any time by notifying the Lenders, the Issuing Bank and the Borrower. Upon any such resignation, the Required Lenders pursuant shall have the right, in consultation with the Borrower, to appoint a successor. If no successor shall have been so appointed by the terms Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders and the Issuing Bank, appoint a successor Agent which shall be a Lender with an office in New York, New York, or an Affiliate of any such Lender. Upon the acceptance of its appointment as an Agent hereunder by a successor, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Agent, and the retiring Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder. The fees payable by the Borrower to a successor Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Borrower and such successor. After an Agent's resignation hereunder, the provisions of this Agreement Article and Section 11.04 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while it was acting as an Agent. (g) Each Lender acknowledges that it has independently and without reliance upon any Agent or any other Facility Document even ifLender and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, at the time such action is taken by made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent not taking action under or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under based upon this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take any other Loan Document or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken related agreement or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructionsany document furnished hereunder or thereunder.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party Documents, or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Party, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such the Administrative Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such the Administrative Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No The Administrative Agent shall not have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby hereby, regardless of whether a Default or therebyEvent of Default has occurred and is continuing. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no the Administrative Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to or such other number or percentage of the Collateral Agent, Lenders as shall be necessary under the Administrative Agentcircumstances as provided in Section 15.01); provided that such the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such the Administrative Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law, including for the avoidance of doubt any action that may be in violation of the automatic stay under any Applicable Law or that may effect a forfeiture, modification or termination of property of a Defaulting Lender in violation of any Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or or, by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) . Except as expressly set forth in the Facility Documents, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that is communicated to or obtained by the bank serving as the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity. If the Administrative Agent has been requested or directed by the Required Lenders to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Administrative Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Administrative Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expense or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, cost, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any affirmative action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any Facility Document or Loan Document unless and until directed by the Required Lenders. Neither the Collateral Administrative Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person person in accordance with any notice given by the Required Lenders (or the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders on their behalf) pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Personperson, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a except where the Responsible Officer of the Collateral Administrative Agent shall have has actual knowledge (without any duty of inquiry or investigation on its part) that such Required Lenders or persons purporting to be the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunderRequired Lenders are not entitled to give such notice. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Administrative Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Administrative Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent Agent, the Collateral Administrator and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party party, or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Party, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Majority Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or or, by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. . If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable (b) or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders), to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in 750499896 22723957 compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related Document unless and until directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable (or the Administrative Agent on their behalf). Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders), pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such notice, unless a except where the Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have has actual knowledge (without any duty of inquiry or investigation on its part) that the same Majority Lenders or unless the Required Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such notice. The Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon directions provided by the Administrative Agent as if provided by the requisite Lenders authorized to provide such direction hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) . If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) five-Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender on its own behalf (and, in for the case purposes of Article 10 and the Collateral AgentSwap Guarantee, the Administrative Agenton behalf of each of its Affiliates which is or becomes a Swap Lender) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as be its agent in its name and on its behalf and to exercise such rights or powers granted to the Agent or the Lenders under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by specifically provided herein and on the terms hereof and thereofhereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document thereto and the transactions contemplated Agent hereby or therebyaccepts such appointment and authorization. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or Agreement, the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but but, subject to Section 14.9, shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Majority Lenders (orand such instructions shall be binding upon all Lenders; provided, with respect to however, that the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes the Agent to liability in such capacity or which could result in the Agent's incurring any costs and expenses, in its judgmentwithout provision being made for indemnity of the Agent by the Lenders against any loss, to personal liability, cost or expense incurred, or to be incurred or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents Agreement or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable mannerLaws. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officerExcept as provided otherwise in Section 14.1(e), agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to where the terms of this Agreement or the Security refer to any other Facility Document even if, at action to be taken hereunder or thereunder by the time Lenders or to any such action is that requires the consent, approval, satisfaction, agreement or other determination of the Lenders, the action taken by any such Personand the consent, approval, satisfaction, agreement or other determination given or made by the Majority Lenders shall constitute the action or consent, approval, agreement or other determination of the Lenders herein or therein referred to. (c) Except as provided otherwise in this Section 14.1, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver take such sum actions as it deems necessary, or to a court refrain from taking such actions or to give agreements, consents, approvals or instructions to the Borrower on behalf of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleaderthe Lenders in respect of all matters referred to in or contemplated by this Agreement. (cd) If Except as provided otherwise in performing Section 14.1(e) or where this Agreement expressly requires that any matter be determined or consented to by all the Lenders, any provision of this Agreement may be amended only if the Borrower and the Majority Lenders so agree in writing and any Default or Event of Default may be waived before or after it occurs only if the Majority Lenders so agree in writing. (e) Any amendment, extension or waiver of, or consent or determination relating to, the terms of this Agreement which changes or relates to: (i) the Total Commitment or the Commitment of any Lender except as permitted by this Agreement; (ii) a decrease in the rates, or an extension in the dates of payment, of interest payable hereunder; (iii) a decrease in the amount, or an extension in the dates of payment, of fees payable hereunder except for (A) fronting fees payable pursuant to Section 3.5 (which may be varied with the consent of the LC Issuer) and (B) agency fees payable pursuant to Section 3.7 (which may be varied with the consent of the Agent); (iv) a decrease in the amount, or an extension in the dates of payment, of principal required hereunder; (v) the types of Advances available hereunder; (vi) the extension provisions in Section 2.3 except for the notice periods referred to therein; (vii) an assignment or transfer by the Borrower of any or all of its duties rights and obligations under this Agreement; (viii) any release of the Security; (ix) any assignment or transfer by a Restricted Subsidiary of, or release or amendment of, any or all of its obligations under any Restricted Subsidiary Guarantee not provided for hereunder; (x) Section 14.17(a)(ii); or (xi) this Section 14.1(e); shall require the unanimous consent in writing of all the Lenders; provided that: (A) any amendment or waiver which changes or relates to the rights or obligations of the Agent, any LC Issuer or the Swing Line Lender shall also require the agreement of the Agent, the Collateral Agent is required LC Issuer or such Swing Line Lender, as applicable; and (B) any amendment or waiver which changes or relates to decide between alternative courses Section 10.3 or this paragraph (B) or which would adversely affect in any material way the Security insofar as it pertains to a Swap Lender shall also require the agreement of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as Swap Lender so affected; and all references to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive unanimous consent in such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but context shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. construed accordingly. (f) The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except declare an Event of Default and demand payment under Section 11.2 of any or all of the Loan Indebtedness when directed to do so by written notice of the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructionsMajority Lenders.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) Lenders and hereby irrevocably appoints the Administrative Agent as its agent and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent actions on its behalf behalf, including execution of the other Loan Documents, and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and thereofof the Loan Documents, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No . (b) The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, obligations except those expressly set forth herein in the Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (i) the Administrative Agent shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing, (ii) the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated by the Loan Documents that the Administrative Agent is required to exercise in writing as directed by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 10.01), and (iii) except as expressly set forth in the Loan Documents, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to Holdings, PBE, Parent or any of the Group Members that is communicated to or obtained by the Person serving as Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity. The Administrative Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 10.01) or in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default unless and until written notice thereof is given to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower or a Lender, and the Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with any Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other Facility document delivered hereunder or in connection with any Loan Document, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth in any Loan Document, (iv) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of any Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document, (v) the creation, perfection or priority of Liens on the Collateral or the existence of the Collateral or (vi) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article III or elsewhere in any Loan Document, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent. (c) In its capacity, the Administrative Agent is a “representative” of the Secured Parties within the meaning of the term “secured party” as defined in the UCC. Each Lender authorizes the Administrative Agent to enter into each of the Collateral Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any and to take all action contemplated by such documents. Each Lender agrees that no Secured Party (other than the Administrative Agent) shall have the right individually to seek to realize upon the security granted by any Collateral Document, it being understood and no implied covenantsagreed that such rights and remedies may be exercised solely by the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties upon the terms of the Collateral Documents. In the event that any Collateral is hereafter pledged by any Person as collateral security for the Obligations, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Administrative Agent is hereby authorized, and hereby granted a party power of attorney, to execute and deliver on behalf of the Secured Parties any Loan Documents necessary or appropriate to grant and perfect a Lien on such Collateral in favor of the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties. The Lenders hereby authorize the Administrative Agent, at its option and in its discretion, to release any Lien granted to or held by the Administrative Agent upon any Collateral (if anyi) as duties on its part described in Section 10.02(d), (ii) as permitted by, but only in accordance with, the terms of the applicable Loan Document or (iii) if approved, authorized or ratified in writing by the Required Lenders, unless such release is required to be performed approved by all of the Lenders hereunder. Upon request by the Administrative Agent at any time, the Lenders will confirm in writing the Administrative Agent’s authority to release particular types or observeditems of Collateral pursuant hereto. No Agent shall have Upon any sale or be construed transfer of assets constituting Collateral which is permitted pursuant to have the terms of any other duties Loan Document, or responsibilities consented to in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for writing by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders or all of the Lenders, as applicable, and upon at least five (or, with respect 5) Business Days’ prior written request by the Borrower to the Collateral Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent)Agent shall (and is hereby irrevocably authorized by the Lenders to) execute such documents as may be necessary to evidence the release of the Liens granted to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties herein or pursuant hereto upon the Collateral that was sold or transferred; provided provided, however, that such (i) the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take execute any action which exposes such Agentdocument on terms which, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent opinion, would expose the Administrative Agent to liability or create any obligation or entail any consequence other than the release of such Liens without recourse or warranty, and (ii) such release shall not in any manner discharge, affect or impair the Obligations or any Liens upon (or obligations of Parent or any Loan Party) all interests retained Parent or any Loan Party, including (without limitation) the proceeds of the sale, all of which shall continue to constitute part of the Collateral. (d) The Administrative Agent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers through their respective Related Persons. The exculpatory provisions of this Article IX shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Persons of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by and any such Person subagent, and shall apply to their respective activities in accordance connection with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer syndication of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise Facility as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleaderwell as activities as Administrative Agent. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any -117- USActive 55502425.1255502425.13 notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) Secured Parties hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, and the other Facility Transaction Documents as are delegated to such the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party Transaction Documents, or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Party, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such the Administrative Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Transaction Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and otherwise exist for the transactions contemplated hereby or therebyAdministrative Agent. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Transaction Documents, no the Administrative Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (orMajority Banks; provided, with respect to the Collateral Agenthowever, that the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, the Administrative Agent to personal liability, cost or expense liability or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Transaction Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender Secured Party agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Transaction Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunderwith gross negligence, fraud or willful misconduct. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by If the Administrative Agent has been requested or directed by the Required Lenders to take any action pursuant to the terms any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such PersonDocument, the Administrative Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the Required Lenders manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or Persons purporting in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to be require the Administrative Agent to expend or the Required Lenders are not entitled risk its own funds or to give such noticetake any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expense or liability, unless a Responsible Officer it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, cost, expense or liability. For the avoidance of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Documentdoubt, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as shall not have any duty or obligation to take any affirmative action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any Facility Document or Collateral Loan Document unless and until directed by the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructionsRequired Lenders.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such the Agent by the terms hereof and thereofhereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No The Agent shall have any no duties or responsibilities, responsibilities except those expressly set forth herein or in this Agreement. The duties of the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into mechanical and administrative in nature; the Agent shall not have by reason of this Agreement a fiduciary relationship in respect of any Lender; and nothing in this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, expressed or implied, is intended to or shall be so construed as to impose upon the Agent any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities obligations in respect of this Agreement or any the other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or therebyLoan Documents except as expressly set forth herein. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement Agreement, including enforcement or collection of the other Facility DocumentsLoans, no the Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from actingrefraining) upon the written instructions of the Required Majority Lenders, and such instructions shall be binding upon all Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); and any holders of any Note provided that such the Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, the Agent to personal liability, cost or expense liability or which is contrary to this Agreementthe Loan Documents or applicable law and provided, further, that without the consent of all Lenders, the other Facility Agent shall not release any collateral securing the Borrower's obligations under the Loan Documents or Applicable Lawchange or modify the Total Commitment (other than changes made pursuant to Section 2.03), any Lender's Commitment (other than changes made pursuant to Section 2.03), the definition of "Majority Lenders", the conditions precedent set forth in Article III, the timing or would berates of interest payments, the timing or amount of fees or the timing or amounts of principal payments due in respect of Loans, and provided, further, that the terms of Section 2.05, Section 2.11(c) and this Article VIII shall not be amended without the prior written consent of the Agent (acting for its own account). In the absence of instructions from the Majority Lenders, the Agent shall have authority (but no obligation), in its judgmentsole discretion, contrary to its duties hereundertake or not to take any action, under unless this Agreement specifically requires the consent of the Lenders or the consent of the Majority Lenders and any other Facility Document such action or under Applicable Lawfailure to act shall be binding on all the Lenders and on all holders of the Notes. Each Lender agrees that and each holder of any Note shall execute and deliver such additional instruments, including powers of attorney in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise favor of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, as may be necessary or provide desirable to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing enable the Agent to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable mannerpowers hereunder. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) The Company and each other Owner hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action act as its agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, and the other Transaction Documents with such powers and discretion as are specifically delegated to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The Agent (which term as used in this sentence and in Section 5.5 and the first sentence of Section 5.6 hereof shall include its affiliates and its own and its affiliates’ officers, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent directors, employees, and agents): (a) shall not have any duties or responsibilities, responsibilities except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement and shall not be a trustee or fiduciary for the Company or any other Facility Document Owner; (b) shall not be responsible to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement the Company or any other Facility Owner for any recital, statement, representation, or warranty (whether written or oral) made in or in connection with any Transaction Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As any certificate or other document referred to any matters not expressly or provided for in, or received by this Agreement any of them under, any Transaction Document, or for the value, validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability, or sufficiency of any Transaction Document, or any other document referred to or provided for therein or for any failure by any of the Issuer, AmeriCredit, AWC or the Servicer or any other Facility DocumentsPerson to perform any of its obligations thereunder; (c) shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain, no Agent shall be required to exercise inquire into, or verify the performance or observance of any discretion covenants or take agreements by any actionof the Issuer, but shall be required to act AmeriCredit, AWC or the Servicer or the satisfaction of any condition or to refrain from acting inspect the property (including the books and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from actingrecords) upon the written instructions of any of the Required Lenders Issuer, AmeriCredit, AWC or the Servicer or any of their Subsidiaries or affiliates; (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent d) shall not be required to take initiate or conduct any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost litigation or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, collection proceedings under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may Transaction Document; and (e) shall not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable responsible for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it under or in connection with any Transaction Document, except for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Agent may employ agents and attorneys-in-fact and shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any such Person in accordance agents or attorneys-in-fact selected by it with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleaderreasonable care. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party Documents, or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Party, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or therebyhereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or or, by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. . If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any affirmative action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any Facility Document or Related Document unless and until directed by the Required Lenders (b) or the Administrative Agent on their behalf). Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.by

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Required Lenders (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Required Lenders), to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expensesexpense or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costscost, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related Document unless and until directed by the Required Lenders (or the Administrative Agent on their behalf). (c) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any direction, instruction or notice given by the Required Lenders (or by the Administrative Agent or acting at the direction of the Required Lenders Lenders), pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such direction, instruction or notice, except where the Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent has actual knowledge (without any duty of inquiry or investigation on its part) that the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such direction, instruction or notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (cd) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Borrower or the Servicer, with a copy to the Administrative Agent Agent, prior to the occurrence and continuation of an Event of Default, or the Administrative Agent, after the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) Bank hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes ------------------------ the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, and the other Facility Loan Documents as are delegated to such the Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or and the other Facility Loan Documents, no the Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (orMajority Banks, with respect to and such instructions shall be binding upon all Banks; provided, however, that the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be ----------------- required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, judgment exposes the Agent to personal liability, cost or expense liability or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents Agreement or Applicable Law, applicable law. The Agent agrees to give to each Bank prompt notice of each notice given to it by Borrower or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders Loan Party pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained elsewhere in this Agreement or in any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Loan Document, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein, nor shall the right Agent have or be deemed to deliver such sum to a court have any fiduciary relationship with any Bank, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into this Agreement or any other Loan Document or otherwise exist against the Agent. The Agent may execute any of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this AgreementAgreement or any other Loan Document by or through agents, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but employees or attorneys-in-fact and shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any entitled to advice of counsel concerning all matters pertaining to such courses of actionduties. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any agent or attorney-in-fact that it selects as long as such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken selection was made without gross negligence or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructionswillful misconduct.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required MajorityRequired Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders), to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related Document unless and until directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable (or the Administrative Agent on their behalf). (c) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any direction, instruction or notice given by the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders), pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such direction, instruction or notice, unless a except where the Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have has actual knowledge (without any duty of inquiry or investigation on its part) that the same Majority Lenders or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunderRequired Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such direction, instruction or notice. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (cd) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Borrower or the Servicer, with a copy to the Administrative Agent Agent, prior to the occurrence and continuation of an Event of Default, or the Administrative Agent, after the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party Documents, or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Party, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such the Administrative Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such the Administrative Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No The Administrative Agent shall not have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby hereby, regardless of whether a Default or therebyEvent of Default has occurred and is continuing. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no the Administrative Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to or such other number or percentage of the Collateral Agent, Lenders as shall be necessary under the Administrative Agentcircumstances as provided in Section 15.01); provided that such the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such the Administrative Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law, including for the avoidance of doubt any action that may be in violation of the automatic stay under any Applicable Law or that may effect a forfeiture, modification or termination of property of a Defaulting Lender in violation of any Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or or, by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither . Except as expressly set forth in the Collateral Facility Documents, the Administrative Agent nor shall not have any officerduty to disclose, agent or representative thereof and shall not be personally liable for the failure to disclose, any action taken information relating to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that is communicated to or obtained by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the bank serving as the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunderAffiliates in any capacity. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.-103- 34881204v6 110062879

Authorization and Action. 31375638.9 (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as be its agent in its name and on its behalf and to exercise such rights or powers granted to the Agent or the Lenders under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by specifically provided herein and on the terms hereof and thereofhereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document thereto and the transactions contemplated Agent hereby or therebyaccepts such appointment and authorization. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or Agreement, the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but but, subject to Section 14.11, shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Majority Lenders (orand such instructions shall be binding upon all Lenders; provided, with respect to however, that the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes the Agent to liability in such Agentcapacity or which could result in the Agent incurring any costs or expenses, in its judgmentwithout provision being made for indemnity of the Agent by the Lenders against any loss, to personal liability, cost or expense incurred, or to be incurred, or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents Agreement or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable mannerLaws. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officerExcept as provided otherwise in Section 14.1(e), agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to where the terms of this Agreement refer to any action to be taken hereunder or thereunder by the Lenders or to any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is that requires the consent, approval, satisfaction, agreement or other determination of the Lenders, the action taken by any such Personand the consent, approval, satisfaction, agreement or other determination given or made by the Majority Lenders shall constitute the action or consent, approval, agreement or other determination of the Lenders herein or therein referred to. (c) Except as provided otherwise in this Section 14.1, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver take such sum actions as it deems necessary, or to a court refrain from taking such actions or to give agreements, consents, approvals or instructions to the Borrower, the General Partner or any Material Subsidiary, or any of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleaderthem, on behalf of the Lenders in respect of all matters referred to in or contemplated by this Agreement. (cd) If Except as provided otherwise in performing Section 14.1(e) or where this Agreement expressly requires that any matter be determined or consented to by all the Lenders, any provision of this Agreement may be amended only if the Borrower and the Majority Lenders so agree in writing and any Default or Event of Default may be waived before or after it occurs only if the Majority Lenders so agree in writing. (e) Any amendment, extension or waiver of, or consent or determination relating to, the terms of this Agreement which changes or relates to: (i) an increase to the amount of the Commitments, or any Lender's Commitments; (ii) a decrease in the rates, or an extension in the dates of payment, of interest payable hereunder; (iii) a decrease in the amount, or an extension in the dates of payment, of fees payable hereunder except for agency fees payable pursuant to Section 3.6; (iv) the dates or amounts of repayment of principal required hereunder (including any extension to the Maturity Date); (v) the types of Loans available hereunder; (vi) a release or subordination of the Security Documents not specifically contemplated hereunder; (vii) the definition of "Majority Lenders"; (viii) an assignment or transfer by the Borrower or the General Partner of any or all of its duties respective rights and obligations under this Agreement not specifically permitted by this Agreement; (ix) Sections 6.4, 9.2(b) or 9.2(c) or this Section 14.1(e); or (x) any provision hereof contemplating or requiring "unanimous" consent, approval or agreement of the Lenders; shall require the unanimous consent in writing of all the Lenders; and any amendment or waiver which changes or relates to the rights or obligations of the Agent shall also require the agreement of the Agent thereto in writing. (f) Provided that an Event of Default exists, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except declare an Event of Default and demand payment of any or all of the Loan Indebtedness when directed to do so by the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructionswritten notice of the Majority Lenders.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. The Collateral Agent’s services hereunder shall be conducted through its Corporate Trust Services division (including, as applicable, any agents or Affiliates utilized thereby). No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Majority Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders) to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related Document unless and until directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable (or the Administrative Agent on their behalf). (c) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders) pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such notice, unless a except where the Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have has actual knowledge (without any duty of inquiry or investigation on its part) that the same Majority Lenders or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunderRequired Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such notice. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (cd) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Facility Agent and each Lender and each Subordinated Noteholder hereby irrevocably authorizes and appoints the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party Documents, or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Party, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or therebyhereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent)Lenders; provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s 's consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s 's reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or or, by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) Company and each Bank Investor hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action act as its agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, and the other Transaction Documents with such powers and discretion as are specifically delegated to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof of this Agreement and thereofsuch other Transaction Documents, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The Agent (which term as used in this sentence and in Section 9.5 and the first sentence of Section 9.6 hereof shall include its affiliates and its own and its affiliates' officers, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent directors, employees, and agents): (a) shall not have any duties or responsibilities, responsibilities except those expressly set forth herein in this Agreement and shall not be a trustee or fiduciary for the Company or any Bank Investor; (b) shall not be responsible to the Company or any Bank Investor for any recital, statement, representation, or warranty (whether written or oral) made in or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party connection with any Transaction Document or any fiduciary relationship with certificate or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by any Secured Party and no implied covenantsof them under, functionsany Transaction Document, responsibilitiesor for the value, duties validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability, or obligations or liabilities on the part sufficiency of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement any Transaction Document, or any other Facility Document document referred to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have provided for therein or be construed to have for any other duties failure by the Transferor, any Seller or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement the Master Servicer or any other Facility Document and Person to perform any of its obligations thereunder; (c) shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain, inquire into, or verify the transactions contemplated hereby performance or thereby. As to observance of any matters not expressly provided for covenants or agreements by this Agreement the Transferor, any Seller or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise Master Servicer or the satisfaction of any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act condition or to refrain from acting inspect the property (including the books and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from actingrecords) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders Transferor, any Seller or the Master Servicer or any of their Subsidiaries or affiliates; (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent d) shall not be required to take initiate or conduct any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost litigation or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, collection proceedings under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may Transaction Document; and (e) shall not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable responsible for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it under or in connection with any Transaction Document, except for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Agent may employ agents and attorneys-in-fact and shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any such Person in accordance agents or attorneys-in-fact selected by it with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleaderreasonable care. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) Lenders and hereby irrevocably appoints the Administrative Agent as its agent and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent actions on its behalf behalf, including execution of the other Loan Documents, and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and thereofof the Loan Documents, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No . (b) The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, obligations except those expressly set forth herein in the Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (i) the Administrative Agent shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing, (ii) the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated by the Loan Documents that the Administrative Agent is required to exercise in writing as directed by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 10.01), and (iii) except as expressly set forth in the Loan Documents, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to Holdings, PBE, Parent or any of the Group Members that is communicated to or obtained by the Person serving as Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity. The Administrative Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 10.01) or in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default unless and until written notice thereof is given to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower Representative or a Lender, and the Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with any Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other Facility document delivered hereunder or in connection with any Loan Document, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth in any Loan Document, (iv) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of any Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document, (v) the creation, perfection or priority of Liens on the Collateral or the existence of the Collateral or (vi) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article III or elsewhere in any Loan Document, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent. (c) In its capacity, the Administrative Agent is a “representative” of the Secured Parties within the meaning of the term “secured party” as defined in the UCC. Each Lender authorizes the Administrative Agent to enter into each of the Collateral Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any and to take all action contemplated by such documents. Each Lender agrees that no Secured Party (other than the Administrative Agent) shall have the right individually to seek to realize upon the security granted by any Collateral Document, it being understood and no implied covenantsagreed that such rights and remedies may be exercised solely by the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties upon the terms of the Collateral Documents. In the event that any Collateral is hereafter pledged by any Person as collateral security for the Obligations, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Administrative Agent is hereby authorized, and hereby granted a party power of attorney, to execute and deliver on behalf of the Secured Parties any Loan Documents necessary or appropriate to grant and perfect a Lien on such Collateral in favor of the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties. The Lenders hereby authorize the Administrative Agent, at its option and in its discretion, to release any Lien granted to or held by the Administrative Agent upon any Collateral (if anyi) as duties on its part described in Section 10.02(d), (ii) as permitted by, but only in accordance with, the terms of the applicable Loan Document or (iii) if approved, authorized or ratified in writing by the Required Lenders, unless such release is required to be performed approved by all of the Lenders hereunder. Upon request by the Administrative Agent at any time, the Lenders will confirm in writing the Administrative Agent’s authority to release particular types or observeditems of Collateral pursuant hereto. No Agent shall have Upon any sale or be construed transfer of assets constituting Collateral which is permitted pursuant to have the terms of any other duties Loan Document, or responsibilities consented to in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for writing by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders or all of the Lenders, as applicable, and upon at least five (or, with respect 5) Business Days’ prior written request by the Borrower Representative to the Collateral Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent)Agent shall (and is hereby irrevocably authorized by the Lenders to) execute such documents as may be necessary to evidence the release of the Liens granted to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties herein or pursuant hereto upon the Collateral that was sold or transferred; provided provided, however, that such (i) the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take execute any action which exposes such Agentdocument on terms which, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent opinion, would expose the Administrative Agent to liability or create any obligation or entail any consequence other than the release of such Liens without recourse or warranty, and (ii) such release shall not in any manner discharge, affect or impair the Obligations or any Liens upon (or obligations of Parent or any Loan Party) all interests retained Parent or any Loan Party, including (without limitation) the proceeds of the sale, all of which shall continue to constitute part of the Collateral. (d) The Administrative Agent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers through their respective Related Persons. The exculpatory provisions of this Article IX shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Persons of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by and any such Person sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in accordance connection with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer syndication of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise Facility as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleaderwell as activities as Administrative Agent. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) The Company and each Bank Investor hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action act as its agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, and the other Transaction Documents with such powers and discretion as are specifically delegated to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof of this Agreement and thereofthe other Transaction Documents, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The Agent (which term as used in this sentence and in Section 9.05 and the first sentence of Section 9.06 hereof shall include its affiliates and its own and its affiliates' officers, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent directors, employees, and agents): (a) shall not have any duties or responsibilities, responsibilities except those expressly set forth herein in this Agreement and shall not be a trustee or fiduciary for the Company or any Bank Investor; (b) shall not be responsible to the Company or any Bank Investor for any recital, statement, representation, or warranty (whether written or oral) made in or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party connection with any Transaction Document or any fiduciary relationship with certificate or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by any Secured Party and no implied covenantsof them under, functionsany Transaction Document, responsibilitiesor for the value, duties validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability, or obligations or liabilities on the part sufficiency of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement any Transaction Document, or any other Facility Document document referred to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have provided for therein or be construed to have for any other duties failure by any of the Borrower, the Seller or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement the Master Servicer or any other Facility Document and Person to perform any of its obligations thereunder; (c) shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain, inquire into, or verify the transactions contemplated hereby performance or thereby. As to observance of any matters not expressly provided for covenants or agreements by this Agreement any of the Borrower, the Seller or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise Master Servicer or the satisfaction of any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act condition or to refrain from acting inspect the property (including the books and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from actingrecords) upon the written instructions of any of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral AgentBorrower, the Administrative Agent)Seller or the Master Servicer or any of their Subsidiaries or affiliates; provided that such Agent (d) shall not be required to take initiate or conduct any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost litigation or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, collection proceedings under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may Transaction Document; and (e) shall not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable responsible for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it under or in connection with any Transaction Document, except for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Agent may employ agents and attorneys-in-fact and shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any such Person in accordance agents or attorneys-in-fact selected by it with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleaderreasonable care. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party Documents, or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Party, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or therebyhereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or or, by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. . If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Required Lenders to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any affirmative action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any Facility Document or Related Document unless and until directed by the Required Lenders (b) or the Administrative Agent on their behalf). Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person person in accordance with any notice given by the Required Lenders (or the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders on their behalf) pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Personperson, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a except where the Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have has actual knowledge (without any duty of inquiry or investigation on its part) that such Required Lenders or persons purporting to be the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunderRequired Lenders are not entitled to give such notice. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) . If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five two (52) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) two-Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions. The Collateral Agent, the Collateral Administrator, the Backup Collateral Manager and the Custodian shall be under no obligation to (i) monitor, determine or verify the unavailability or cessation of LIBOR, LIBO Screen Rate, Daily Simple SOFR, Daily Simple RFR, SOFR, Term SOFR, Benchmark, Benchmark Replacement (or other applicable interest rate), or whether or when there has occurred, or to give notice to any other transaction party of the occurrence of (except as expressly provided herein), any Benchmark Transition Event or any amendment or change required to be made to the applicable interest rate, (ii) select, determine or designate any LIBOR, LIBO Screen Rate, Daily Simple SOFR, Daily Simple RFR, SOFR, Term SOFR, Benchmark, Benchmark Replacement or other successor or replacement benchmark index, or whether any conditions to the designation of such a rate have been satisfied, (iii) select, determine or designate any Benchmark Replacement Adjustment or other modifier to any replacement or successor index, or (iv) determine whether or what Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes are necessary or advisable, if any, in connection with any of the foregoing. The Collateral Agent, the Collateral Administrator, the Backup Collateral Manager and the Custodian shall not be liable for any inability, failure or delay on its part to perform any of its duties set forth in this Agreement as a result of the unavailability of LIBOR, LIBO Screen Rate, Daily Simple SOFR, Daily Simple RFR, SOFR, Term SOFR, Benchmark, Benchmark Replacement (or other applicable interest rate) and absence of a designated replacement Interest Rate, including as a result of any inability, delay, error or inaccuracy on the part of any other transaction party, including without limitation the Administrative Agent or any Lender, in providing any direction, instruction, notice or information required or contemplated by the terms of this Agreement and reasonably required for the performance of such duties.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may -140- USActive 59109857.15 not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender Party (and, in its capacities as a Lender and the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative AgentIssuing Bank (if applicable)) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, and the other Facility Loan Documents as are delegated to such the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, responsibilities except those expressly set forth herein or in this Agreement and in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party Loan Documents, and the Administrative Agent may perform any of its respective duties hereunder by or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenantsthrough its officers, functionsdirectors, responsibilitiesagents, employees or affiliates. The duties or obligations or liabilities on of the part of such Administrative Agent shall be read into mechanical and administrative in nature; the Administrative Agent shall not have by reason of this Agreement or any other Facility Loan Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed fiduciary relationship in respect of any Lender Party or observed. No Agent shall have the holder of any Lender Note; and nothing in this Agreement or be construed to have in any other duties Loan Document, expressed or responsibilities implied, is intended to or shall be so construed as to impose upon the Administrative Agent any obligations in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Loan Document and the transactions contemplated hereby except as expressly set forth herein or therebytherein. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, enforcement or collection of the other Facility DocumentsLender Notes), no the Administrative Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall not incur any liability to any Lender Party and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (orMajority Lenders, with respect to the Collateral Agentand such instructions shall be binding upon all Lender Parties and all holders of Lender Notes; provided, however, that the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which that exposes such Agent, in its judgment, the Administrative Agent to personal liability, cost liability or expense or which that is contrary to this AgreementAgreement or applicable law. Without limiting the foregoing, neither any Lender Party nor the other Facility Documents holder of any Lender Note shall have any right of action whatsoever against the Administrative Agent as a result of the Administrative Agent acting or Applicable Law, refraining from acting hereunder or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Loan Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with the instructions of the Majority Lenders (or, if so specified by this Agreement, any applicable greater percentage of Lenders). The Administrative Agent agrees to give to each Lender Party prompt notice of each notice given to it by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders either Borrower pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleaderAgreement. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party Documents, or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Party, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or therebyhereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or or, by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. . If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any affirmative action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any Facility Document or Related Document unless and until directed by the Required Lenders (b) or the Administrative Agent on their behalf). Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person person in accordance with any notice given by the Required Lenders (or the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders on their behalf) pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Personperson, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a except where the Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have has actual knowledge (without any duty of inquiry or investigation on its part) that such Required Lenders or persons purporting to be the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunderRequired Lenders are not entitled to give such notice. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) . If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) two Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) two-Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions. If the Administrative Agent fails to hold at least 20% of the Commitments, the Required Lenders may remove the Administrative Agent and appoint a successor Administrative Agent in accordance with Section 12.05.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Majority Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (a) If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders) to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related Document unless and until directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable (or the Administrative Agent on their behalf). (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders) pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such notice, unless a except where the Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have has actual knowledge (without any duty of inquiry or investigation on its part) that the same Majority Lenders or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunderRequired Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such notice. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. The Collateral Agent’s services hereunder shall be conducted through its Corporate Trust Services division (including, as applicable, any agents or Affiliates utilized thereby). No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Majority Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) The Company and each Bank Investor hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action act as its agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, and the other Transaction Documents with such powers and discretion as are specifically delegated to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof of this Agreement and thereofthe other Transaction Documents, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The Agent (which term as used in this sentence and in Section 5.4 and the first sentence of Section 5.3 hereof shall include its affiliates and its own and its affiliates' officers, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent directors, employees, and agents): (a) shall not have any duties or responsibilities, responsibilities except those expressly set forth herein in this Agreement and shall not be a trustee or fiduciary for the Company or any Bank Investor; (b) shall not be responsible to the Company or any Bank Investor for any recital, statement, representation, or warranty (whether written or oral) made in or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party connection with any Transaction Document or any fiduciary relationship with certificate or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by any Secured Party and no implied covenantsof them under, functionsany Transaction Document, responsibilitiesor for the value, duties validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability, or obligations or liabilities on the part sufficiency of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement any Transaction Document, or any other Facility Document document referred to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have provided for therein or be construed to have for any other duties failure by any of the Issuer, either Seller or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement the Servicer or any other Facility Document and Person to perform any of its obligations thereunder; (c) shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain, inquire into, or verify the transactions contemplated hereby performance or thereby. As to observance of any matters not expressly provided for covenants or agreements by this Agreement any of the Issuer, either Seller or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise Servicer or the satisfaction of any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act condition or to refrain from acting inspect the property (including the books and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from actingrecords) upon the written instructions of any of the Required Lenders Issuer, either Seller or the Servicer or any of their Subsidiaries or affiliates; (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent d) shall not be required to take initiate or conduct any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost litigation or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, collection proceedings under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may Transaction Document; and (e) shall not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable responsible for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it under or in connection with any Transaction Document, except for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Agent may employ agents and attorneys-in-fact and shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any such Person in accordance agents or attorneys-in-fact selected by it with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleaderreasonable care. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) Lenders hereby irrevocably appoints each Agent as its agent and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral each such Agent to take such action as agent actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereofof the Loan Documents, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. (b) Any Lender serving as an Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not an Agent, subject and such Lender and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to the terms hereof. and generally engage in any kind of business with CMS Energy or any of its Subsidiaries or other Affiliate thereof as if it were not an Agent hereunder. (c) No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, obligations except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (i) no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, (ii) no Agent shall have any other Facility Document duty to which take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated by the Loan Documents that such Agent is a party required to exercise in writing by the Required Lenders (if anyor such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 10.01), and (iii) except as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities expressly set forth in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Loan Documents, no Agent shall be required have any duty to exercise any discretion disclose, or take any action, but shall be required liable for the failure to act disclose, any information relating to CMS Energy or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates that is communicated to refrain from acting (and or obtained by the Lender serving as such Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity. No Agent shall be fully protected in so acting liable for any action taken or refraining from acting) upon not taken by it with the written instructions consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or, with respect or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 10.01 or any other provision of this Agreement) or in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. Each Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default or Event of Default unless and until written notice thereof is given to such Agent by the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that Borrower or a Lender (in which case such Agent shall not promptly give a copy of such written notice to the Lenders and the other Agents). No Agent shall be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (A) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with any Loan Document, (B) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered thereunder or in connection therewith, (C) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth in any Loan Document, (D) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of any Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document, or (E) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article V or elsewhere in any Loan Document, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to take any action which exposes be delivered to such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (bd) Neither the Collateral Each Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or sent by the proper Person. Each Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to be made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. Each Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by any such Person it in accordance with the advice of any notice given such counsel, accountants or experts. (e) Each Agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through one or more sub-agents appointed by such Agent. Each Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of the Administrative preceding subsections of this Section 9.01 shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of each Agent or and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication, if any, of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as an Agent. (f) Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor Agent as provided in this subsection (f), any Agent may resign at any time by notifying the Lenders and the Borrower. Upon any such resignation, the Required Lenders pursuant shall have the right, in consultation with the Borrower, to appoint a successor. If no successor shall have been so appointed by the terms Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Agent which shall be a Lender with an office in New York, New York, or an Affiliate of any such Lender. Upon the acceptance of its appointment as an Agent hereunder by a successor, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Agent, and the retiring Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder. The fees payable by the Borrower to a successor Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Borrower and such successor. After an Agent's resignation hereunder, the provisions of this Agreement Article and Section 10.04 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while it was acting as an Agent. (g) Each Lender acknowledges that it has independently and without reliance upon any Agent or any other Facility Document even ifLender and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, at the time such action is taken by made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent not taking action under or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under based upon this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of any other Loan Document or any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder. Each Lender agrees (except as provided in Section 10.05) that it will not take any legal action, it nor institute any actions or proceedings, against the Borrower or any other obligor hereunder or with respect to any Collateral, without the prior written consent of the Required Lenders. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, no Lender may request written instructions from accelerate or otherwise enforce its portion of the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested themLoans, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act unilaterally terminate its Commitment except in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructionsSection 8.02.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) Company and each Bank Investor hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action act as its agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, and the other Transaction Documents with such powers and discretion as are specifically delegated to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof of this Agreement and thereofthe other Transaction Documents, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The Agent (which term as used in this sentence and in Section 9.5 and the first sentence of Section 9.6 hereof shall include its affiliates and its own and its affiliates' officers, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent directors, employees, and agents): (a) shall not have any duties or responsibilities, responsibilities except those expressly set forth herein in this Agreement and shall not be a trustee or fiduciary for the Company or any Bank Investor; (b) shall not be responsible to the Company or any Bank Investor for any recital, statement, representation, or warranty (whether written or oral) made in or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party connection with any Transaction Document or any fiduciary relationship with certificate or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by any Secured Party and no implied covenantsof them under, functionsany Transaction Document, responsibilitiesor for the value, duties validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability, or obligations or liabilities on the part sufficiency of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement any Transaction Document, or any other Facility Document document referred to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have provided for therein or be construed to have for any other duties failure by any of the Transferor, the Parent or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement the Servicer or any other Facility Document and Person to perform any of its obligations thereunder; (c) shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain, inquire into, or verify the transactions contemplated hereby performance or thereby. As to observance of any matters not expressly provided for covenants or agreements by this Agreement any of the Transferor, the Parent or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise Servicer or the satisfaction of any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act condition or to refrain from acting inspect the property (including the books and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from actingrecords) upon the written instructions of any of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral AgentTransferor, the Administrative Agent)Parent or the Servicer or any of their Subsidiaries or affiliates; provided that such Agent (d) shall not be required to take initiate or conduct any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost litigation or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, collection proceedings under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may Transaction Document; and (e) shall not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable responsible for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it under or in connection with any Transaction Document, except for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Agent may employ agents and attorneys-in-fact and shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any such Person in accordance agents or attorneys-in-fact selected by it with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleaderreasonable care. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No ‎No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or nor any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Majority Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) If the Collateral Agent has been requested or directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders) to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expenses or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, costs, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any other Facility Document or any Related Document unless and until directed by the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable (or the Administrative Agent on their behalf). (c) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, (or by the Administrative Agent acting at the direction of the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders) pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such notice, unless a except where the Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have has actual knowledge (without any duty of inquiry or investigation on its part) that the same Majority Lenders or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunderRequired Lenders, as applicable, or Persons purporting to be the Majority Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable, are not entitled to give such notice. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (cd) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Majority Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative an Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative such Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative such Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Facility Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such the Facility Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No The Facility Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party Documents, or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party Party, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such the Facility Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such the Facility Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No The Facility Agent shall not have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or therebyhereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no the Facility Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent)Lenders; provided that such the Facility Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such the Facility Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Facility Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Facility Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or or, by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Facility Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agentwith respect to clause (ii) only, the Administrative Agenteach Participant) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes (i) the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as administrative agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicableAgreement, the Notes and the other Facility Loan Documents as are delegated by such Lender to it as Agent by the terms hereof and thereof and (ii) the Collateral Agent to take such action as collateral agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under the Security Documents as are delegated by such Lender and such Participant to it as Collateral Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together together, in each case, with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to thereto (the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated Collateral Agent are referred to in this Article VIII individually as a “Facility Agent” and collectively, as the “Facility Agents”), and each Facility Agent hereby or therebyaccepts such authorization and appointment. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement Agreement, the Notes, the Security Documents or any other Loan Document or provided for with specific reference to this Section 8.1(including, without limitation, enforcement or collection of the other Notes), neither Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from actingaction) upon the written instructions of the Required Requisite Lenders (orand such instructions shall be binding upon all Lenders; provided, with respect to the Collateral Agenthowever, the Administrative Agent); provided that such neither Facility Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, Facility Agent to personal liability, cost or expense liability or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents Security Documents, any Participation Agreement, any Note or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary applicable law. As to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise provision of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (c) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Security Documents or any other Loan Document under which action may be taken or approval given by the Requisite Lenders, the action taken or approval given by the Requisite Lenders shall be binding upon all Lenders and Participants to the same extent and with the same effect as if each Lender and each Participant had joined therein. Each Facility Agent shall be entitled to rely upon any note, notice, consent, certificate, affidavit, letter, telegram, teletype message, facsimile transmission, statement, order, other document or other instrument or writing believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed or sent by the proper person or persons and, in respect of legal matters, upon the opinion of counsel selected by such Facility Agent. The Agent may deem and treat the payee of each Note as the owner thereof for all purposes hereof unless and until a written notice of the assignment or transfer thereof shall have been filed with the Agent. Any request, authority or consent of any Person who at the time of making such request or giving such authority or consent is the holder of a Note shall be conclusive and binding on any subsequent holder, transferee or assignee of such Note. Subject to the proviso contained in Section 8.7(b), neither Facility Agent shall be required to decide between alternative courses expend or risk any of action, it may request written its own funds or otherwise incur any financial or other liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder. Upon any delivery of any instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested themby the Requisite Lenders pursuant to this Agreement, the Agent shall certify to the Collateral Agent maythat the Lenders delivering such instructions constitute the Requisite Lenders under this Agreement. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The each Lender and Participant hereby authorizes and directs the Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to enter into the extent it has alreadySecurity Documents on its behalf, in good faith, taken or committed itself and acknowledges and agrees to take, action inconsistent with such instructionsall of the terms and conditions thereof and agrees to be bound thereby.

Authorization and Action. (a) Each Lender (and, in the case of the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers under this Agreement and, to the extent applicable, the other Facility Documents as are delegated to such Agent by the terms hereof and thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, subject to the terms hereof. No Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein or in the other Facility Documents to which it is a party or any fiduciary relationship with any Secured Party and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties or obligations or liabilities on the part of such Agent shall be read into this Agreement or any other Facility Document to which such Agent is a party (if any) as duties on its part to be performed or observed. No Agent shall have or be construed to have any other duties or responsibilities in respect of this Agreement or any other Facility Document and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement or the other Facility Documents, no Agent shall be required to exercise any discretion or take any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the written instructions of the Required Lenders (or, with respect to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent); provided that such Agent shall not be required to take any action which exposes such Agent, in its judgment, to personal liability, cost or expense or which is contrary to this Agreement, the other Facility Documents or Applicable Law, or would be, in its judgment, contrary to its duties hereunder, under any other Facility Document or under Applicable Law. Each Lender agrees that in any instance in which the Facility Documents provide that the Administrative Agent’s consent may not be unreasonably withheld, provide for the exercise of the Administrative Agent’s reasonable discretion, or provide to a similar effect, it shall not in its instructions (or by refusing to provide instruction) to the Administrative Agent withhold its consent or exercise its discretion in an unreasonable manner. (b) If the Administrative Agent has been requested or directed by the Required Lenders to take any action pursuant to any provision of this Agreement or any other Facility Document, the Administrative Agent shall not be under any obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement or such Facility Document in the manner so requested unless it shall have been provided indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in compliance with or in performing such request or direction. No provision of this Agreement or any Facility Document shall otherwise be construed to require the Administrative Agent to expend or risk its own funds or to take any action that could in its judgment cause it to incur any cost, expense or liability, unless it is provided indemnity acceptable to it against any such expenditure, risk, cost, expense or liability. For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to take any affirmative action to exercise or enforce any power, right or remedy available to it under this Agreement or any Facility Document or Collateral Loan Document unless and until directed by the Required Lenders. (c) Neither the Collateral Agent nor any officer, agent or representative thereof shall be personally liable for any action taken by any such Person in accordance with any notice given by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Facility Document even if, at the time such action is taken by any such Person, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or Persons purporting to be the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders are not entitled to give such notice, unless a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have actual knowledge of the same or unless the Collateral Agent acts in breach of its standard of care hereunder. If any dispute or disagreement shall arise as to the allocation of any sum of money received by the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any Facility Document, the Collateral Agent shall have the right to deliver such sum to a court of competent jurisdiction and therein commence an action for interpleader. (cd) If in performing its duties under this Agreement, the Collateral Agent is required to decide between alternative courses of action, it may request written instructions from the Administrative Agent as to the course of action desired by it. If the Collateral Agent does not receive such instructions within five (5) Business Days after it has requested them, the Collateral Agent may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking any such courses of action. The Collateral Agent shall act in accordance with instructions received after such five (5) Business Day period except to the extent it has already, in good faith, taken or committed itself to take, action inconsistent with such instructions.