Restricted Payments; Restrictive Agreements (a) Declare or make, or agree to declare or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment (including pursuant to any Synthetic Purchase Agreement), or incur any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to do so; provided, however, that (i) any Subsidiary may declare and pay dividends or make other distributions ratably to its equity holders, (ii) so long as no Event of Default or Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may, or the Borrower may make distributions to Holdings so that Holdings may, repurchase its Equity Interests owned by employees of Holdings, the Borrower or the Subsidiaries or make payments to employees of Holdings, the Borrower or the Subsidiaries upon termination of employment in connection with the exercise of stock options, stock appreciation rights or similar equity incentives or equity based incentives pursuant to management incentive plans or in connection with the death or disability of such employees in an aggregate amount not to exceed $2,000,000 in any fiscal year, (iii) the Borrower may make Restricted Payments to Holdings (x) in an amount not to exceed $500,000 in any fiscal year, to the extent necessary to pay general corporate and overhead expenses incurred by Holdings in the ordinary course of business and (y) if Borrower is a member of a consolidated, combined or unitary group of which Borrower is not the common parent, in an amount necessary to pay the Tax liabilities of the common parent (the “Common Parent”) of the consolidated, combined or unitary group of which Borrower is not the common parent directly attributable to (or arising as a result of) the operations of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries; provided, however, that (A) the amount of such dividends shall not exceed the amount that the Borrower and the Subsidiaries would be required to pay in respect of Federal, state and local taxes were the Borrower and the Subsidiaries to pay such taxes as members of a consolidated, combined or unitary group of which Borrower is the common parent and (B) all Restricted Payments made to Holdings pursuant to this clause (iii) are used by Holdings to make Restricted Payments as specified in clause (iv) within 20 days of the receipt thereof and (iv) if Borrower is a member of a consolidated, combined or unitary group of which Borrower is not the common parent, then Holdings may make Restricted Payments to the Common Parent (x) in an amount not to exceed $500,000 in any fiscal year, to the extent necessary to pay general corporate and overhead expenses incurred by the Common Parent in the ordinary course of business and (y) in an amount necessary to pay the Tax liabilities of the Common Parent directly attributable to (or arising as a result of) the operations of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries; provided, however, that (A) the amount of such dividends shall not exceed the amount that the Borrower and the Subsidiaries would be required to pay in respect of Federal, state and local taxes were the Borrower and the Subsidiaries to pay such taxes as members of a consolidated, combined or unitary group of which Borrower is the common parent and (B) all Restricted Payments made to the Common Parent pursuant to this clause (iv) are used by the Common Parent for the purposes specified herein within 20 days of the receipt thereof.
Material Contracts; Burdensome Restrictions All material contracts relating to the business operations of each Loan Party and each Subsidiary of any Loan Party, including all material employee benefit plans and Labor Contracts are valid, binding and enforceable upon such Loan Party or Subsidiary and each of the other parties thereto in accordance with their respective terms, and there is no default thereunder, to the Loan Parties' knowledge, with respect to parties other than such Loan Party or Subsidiary. None of the Loan Parties or their Subsidiaries is bound by any contractual obligation, or subject to any restriction in any organization document or any requirement of Law which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.
Burdensome Agreements Enter into or permit to exist any Contractual Obligation (other than this Agreement or any other Financing Agreement) that limits the ability of (a) any Restricted Subsidiary of a Borrower that is not a Guarantor to make Restricted Payments to any Loan Party or (b) any Loan Party to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist Liens on property of such Person for the benefit of the Lenders with respect to the Facilities and the Obligations or under the Financing Agreements; provided that the foregoing clauses (a) and (b) shall not apply to Contractual Obligations which (i) (x) exist on the Escrow Release Date and (to the extent not otherwise permitted by this Section 10.9) are listed on Schedule 10.9 hereto and (y) to the extent Contractual Obligations permitted by clause (x) are set forth in an agreement evidencing Indebtedness, are set forth in any agreement evidencing any permitted modification, replacement, renewal, extension or refinancing of such Indebtedness so long as such modification, replacement, renewal, extension or refinancing does not expand the scope of such Contractual Obligation, (ii) are binding on a Restricted Subsidiary at the time such Restricted Subsidiary first becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of a Borrower, so long as such Contractual Obligations were not entered into solely in contemplation of such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary of a Borrower; provided further that this clause (ii) shall not apply to Contractual Obligations that are binding on a Person that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 10.14, (iii) represent Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary of a Borrower which is not a Loan Party which is permitted by Section 10.3 to the extent applying only to such Restricted Subsidiary, (iv) arise in connection with any Disposition permitted by Section 10.4 or 10.5 and relate solely to the assets or Person subject to such Disposition, (v) are customary provisions in joint venture agreements and other similar agreements applicable to joint ventures permitted under Section 10.2 and applicable solely to such joint venture, (vi) are negative pledges and restrictions on Liens in favor of any holder of Indebtedness permitted under Section 10.3 but solely to the extent any negative pledge relates to the property financed by such Indebtedness, (vii) are customary restrictions on leases, subleases, licenses or asset or stock sale agreements otherwise permitted hereby so long as such restrictions relate to the assets or Subsidiary subject thereto, (viii) comprise restrictions imposed by any agreement relating to secured Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 10.3(c), (f) or (t) and to the extent that such restrictions apply only to the property or assets securing such Indebtedness or to the Restricted Subsidiaries incurring or guaranteeing such Indebtedness, (ix) are customary provisions restricting subletting or assignment of any lease governing a leasehold interest of a Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, (x) are customary provisions restricting assignment of any agreement entered into in the ordinary course of business, (xi) are restrictions on cash or other deposits imposed by customers under contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business, (xii) are customary restrictions contained in the ABL Credit Agreement and, in each case, any Permitted Refinancing thereof or (xiii) arise in connection with cash or other deposits permitted under Sections 10.1 and 10.2 and limited to such cash or deposit.
Burdensome Restrictions No Credit Party is a party to or otherwise bound by any indenture, loan or credit agreement or any lease or other agreement or instrument or subject to any charter, corporate or partnership restriction which would foreseeably have a Material Adverse Effect.
No Burdensome Restrictions; No Defaults (a) Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries (i) is a party to any Contractual Obligation (x) the compliance with which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or (y) the performance of which by any party thereof would result in the creation of a Lien (other than a Lien permitted under Section 7.02) on the property or assets of any party thereof or (ii) is subject to any charter restriction that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
No Burdensome Restrictions No Requirement of Law or Contractual Obligation of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Burdensome Obligations No Loan Party is a party to any agreement or contract or subject to any restriction contained in its organizational documents which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
No Restrictions on Payments by Subsidiaries No subsidiary of the Company is currently prohibited, directly or indirectly, under any agreement or other instrument to which it is a party or is subject, (i) from paying any dividends to the Company, (ii) from making any other distribution on such subsidiary’s capital stock, (iii) from repaying to the Company any loans or advances to such subsidiary from the Company or (iv) from transferring any of such subsidiary’s material properties or assets to the Company or any other subsidiary of the Company.
Limitation on Guarantees of Indebtedness by Restricted Subsidiaries The Issuer shall not permit any of its Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries that are Restricted Subsidiaries (and non-Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries if such non-Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries guarantee other capital markets debt securities of the Issuer or any Guarantor), other than a Guarantor, a Foreign Subsidiary or a Securitization Subsidiary, to guarantee the payment of any Indebtedness of the Issuer or any other Guarantor unless:
Limitation on Dividends and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Restricted Subsidiaries The Company will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become effective any encumbrance or restriction of any kind on the ability of any Restricted Subsidiary to (a) pay dividends, in cash or otherwise, or make any other distributions to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary on or in respect of its Capital Stock, (b) pay any Indebtedness owed to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary, (c) make loans or advances to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary, or (d) transfer any of its properties or assets to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary, except in all such cases for such encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by reason of (i) any agreement or instrument in effect on the Issue Date and listed on Schedule D attached to this Indenture, (ii) applicable law or regulation (including corporate governance provisions required by applicable law and regulations of the National Bank of Poland), (iii) customary non-assignment provisions of any lease governing a leasehold interest of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, (iv) any agreement or other instrument of a Person acquired by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in existence at the time of such acquisition (but not created in contemplation thereof), which encumbrance or restriction is not applicable to any Person, or the properties or assets of any Person, other than the Person, or the property or assets of the Person, so acquired, (v) any mortgage or other Lien on real property acquired or improved by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary after the Issue Date that prohibits transfers of the type described in (d) above with respect to such real property, (vi) with respect to a Restricted Subsidiary, an agreement that has been entered into for the sale or disposition of all or substantially all of the Company's Capital Stock in, or substantially all the assets of, such Restricted Subsidiary, (vii) the refinancing of Indebtedness incurred under the agreements listed on Schedule B attached to this Indenture or described in clause (v) above, so long as such encumbrances or restrictions are no less favorable in any material respect to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary than those contained in the respective agreement as in
