Amendment Effective Date This Agreement and the provisions contained herein shall become effective as of the Amendment Effective Date.
Amendment and Restatement On the Closing Date, this Agreement shall amend and restate and supersede the Existing Credit Agreement in its entirety. On the Closing Date, the rights and obligations of the parties evidenced by the Existing Credit Agreement shall be evidenced by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified and in effect on the Closing Date. All principal, interest, fees and expenses, if any, owing or accruing under or in respect of the Existing Credit Agreement for periods prior to the Closing Date shall be calculated and paid on the Closing Date. Upon the effectiveness of this Agreement, each reference in the Loan Documents to “the Credit Agreement” or words of similar effect shall mean this Agreement. Each Loan Party (a) acknowledges and agrees that each Loan Document (as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement) and all other instruments and documents executed and delivered by such Loan Party in favor of the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as applicable, pursuant the Existing Credit Agreement, unless terminated or discharged prior to or on the Closing Date, shall remain in full force and effect on the Closing Date in accordance with its terms, in each case as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified and/or reaffirmed pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the other Credit Documents and (b) ratifies, reaffirms and confirms that, the Obligations that remain unpaid and outstanding as of the date of this Agreement after giving effect to the Transactions (x) continue outstanding under this Agreement and shall not be deemed to be paid, released, discharged or otherwise satisfied by the execution of this Agreement, and this Agreement shall not constitute a refinancing, substitution or novation of such Obligations or any of the other rights, duties and obligations of the parties hereunder, and the terms “Obligations” as such term is used in the Loan Documents shall include the Obligations as amended and restated under this Agreement, and (y) are secured pursuant to the Collateral Documents (as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement), unless terminated or discharged on the Closing Date, in each case as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified and/or reaffirmed pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all security interests, pledges, assignments and other Liens and Guarantees previously granted by any Loan Party pursuant to the Loan Documents executed and delivered in connection with the Existing Credit Agreement are hereby reaffirmed, ratified, renewed and continued, and all such security interests, pledges, assignments and other Liens and Guarantees, in each case, unless expressly terminated, superseded or discharged on and after the Closing Date, shall remain in full force and effect as security for the Obligations (as defined in this Agreement) on and after the Closing Date.
Restatement Effective Date If this is an amendment and restatement, the effective date of the restatement (hereinafter called the "Effective Date") is:
Conditions to Effective Date It shall be a condition to the Effective Date that each of the following conditions shall have been satisfied or waived as of such date, and upon such satisfaction or waiver, this Agreement shall be effective:
(a) this Agreement shall have been duly executed and delivered by the parties hereto;
(b) the VMTP Shares shall have a long-term issue credit rating of AAA (or its equivalent) from at least one Rating Agency on the Effective Date;
(c) the Fund shall have obtained from Moody’s written confirmation that the issuance of the VMTP Shares by the Fund will not, in and of itself, result in a reduction, placement on review for possible downgrade, or withdrawal of the ratings then assigned by Moody’s to the Auction Preferred Shares;
(d) receipt by the Purchasers of executed originals, or copies certified by a duly authorized officer of the Fund to be in full force and effect and not otherwise amended, of all Related Documents (other than the global shares representing the VMTP Shares), as in effect on the Effective Date, and an incumbency certificate with respect to the authorized signatories thereto;
(e) receipt by the Purchasers of opinions of counsel for the Fund, substantially to the effect of Exhibit A;
(f) except as disclosed in the Offering Memorandum, there shall not be any pending or threatened material litigation of the nature described in Section 4.5 (unless such pending or threatened litigation has been determined by each of the Purchasers to be acceptable);
(g) the fees and expenses payable no later than the Effective Date pursuant to Section 2.2(b)(i) hereof shall have been paid;
(h) Each of the Purchasers, in its reasonable discretion, shall be satisfied that no change in law, rule or regulation (or their interpretation or administration), in each case, shall have occurred which will adversely affect the consummation of the transaction contemplated by this Agreement;
(i) there shall have been delivered to the Purchasers any additional documentation and financial information, including satisfactory responses to its due diligence inquiries, as it reasonably deems relevant; and
(j) there shall have been delivered to the Purchasers such information and copies of documents, approvals (if any) and records certified, where appropriate, of trust proceedings as any of the Purchasers may have reasonably requested relating to the Fund’s entering into and performing this Agreement and the other Related Documents to which it is a party, and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby. The Fund and each of the Purchasers agree that consummation of the Purchase pursuant to this Agreement shall constitute acknowledgment that the foregoing conditions have been satisfied or waived.
Conditions to the Effective Date The obligation of each Lender to amend and restated the Existing Credit Agreement and continue the Loans hereunder on the Effective Date is subject to satisfaction or waiver in writing by the Lenders of the following conditions precedent:
(a) The Administrative Agent’s receipt of the following, each properly executed by a Responsible Officer of the signing Loan Party, and each in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its legal counsel:
(i) duly executed counterparts of this Agreement, the Guaranty, the Securities Pledge Agreement, each Security Agreement Supplement, each Intellectual Property Security Agreement Supplement, and the other Loan Documents by each Loan Party, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and Lenders, as applicable;
(ii) such certificates or resolutions or other corporate action, incumbency certificates and/or other certificates of Responsible Officers of each Loan Party as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require evidencing the identity, authority and capacity of each Responsible Officer thereof authorized to act as a Responsible Officer in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such Loan Party is a party or is to be a party on the Effective Date;
(iii) (A) Organization Documents of each Loan Party and (B) good standing certificates or certificates of status, as applicable, as of a date reasonably proximate to the Effective Date, from the applicable Governmental Authority of each Loan Party’s jurisdiction of incorporation, organization or formation;
(iv) a certificate attesting to the Solvency of the Loan Parties (taken as a whole) on the Effective Date after giving effect to the Transaction and the other transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, from the chief financial officer of the Parent in substantially the form of Exhibit I hereto;
(v) copies of a recent Lien and judgment search in each jurisdiction reasonably requested by the Collateral Agent with respect to the Loan Parties together with evidence that, upon satisfaction of the conditions precedent contained in any applicable payoff letters, all existing Liens (other than Permitted Liens) will be terminated and released and all actions required to terminate and release such Liens have been satisfactorily taken or will be capable of being satisfactorily undertaken substantially simultaneously with the closing of the Transaction; and
(vi) an opinion by Dxxxxxxxx Wxxxxx PLLC, counsel to the Loan Parties, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(b) As of the Effective Date, after giving effect to the Transaction, the Loan Parties will have no indebtedness other than the Facility and any Surviving Indebtedness specified on Schedule 7.03(b). All amounts due or outstanding in respect of the Fast Pay Indebtedness and any other Indebtedness other than the Facility and any Surviving Indebtedness specified on Schedule 7.03(b) shall have been repaid in full, all commitments (if any) in respect thereof terminated, all guarantees (if any) thereof discharged and released and all security therefor (if any) released, together with all fees and other amounts owing thereon, or documentation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent to effect such release upon such repayment and termination shall have been delivered to the Administrative Agent.
(c) In order to create in favor of Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a valid, perfected first priority security interest in the personal property Collateral, Collateral Agent shall have received:
(i) (A) to the extent applicable, updated schedules to this Agreement and (B) evidence satisfactory to Collateral Agent of the compliance by each Loan Party of their obligations under the Collateral Documents (including, without limitation, their obligations to authorize or execute, as the case may be, and deliver UCC financing statements, originals of securities, instruments and chattel paper, deposit account control agreements and any agreements governing securities accounts as provided therein);
(ii) a completed Collateral Questionnaire dated as of the Effective Date and executed by a Responsible Officer of each Loan Party, together with all attachments contemplated thereby, including (A) the results of a recent search, by a Person satisfactory to Collateral Agent, of all effective UCC financing statements (or equivalent filings) made with respect to any personal or mixed property of any Loan Party in the jurisdictions specified in the Collateral Questionnaire, together with copies of all such filings disclosed by such search, and (B) UCC termination statements (or similar documents) duly executed by all applicable Persons for filing in all applicable jurisdictions as may be necessary to terminate any effective UCC financing statements (or equivalent filings) disclosed in such search (other than any such financing statements in respect of Permitted Liens); and
(iii) evidence that each Loan Party shall have taken or caused to be taken any other action, executed and delivered or caused to be executed and delivered any other agreement, document and instrument (including without limitation, (i) a landlord personal property collateral access agreement executed by the landlord of any leasehold property and by the applicable Loan Party, and (ii) any intercompany notes evidencing Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to Section 7.03(i)) and made or caused to be made any other filing and recording (other than as set forth herein) reasonably required by Collateral Agent.
(d) The CL Media Acquisition Agreement shall have become effective and Parent shall have purchased 100% of the Equity Interests of Borrower.
(e) The Administrative Agent shall have received reasonably satisfactory evidence of insurance required to be maintained pursuant to Section 6.07 and the Collateral Agent shall be named as an additional loss payee and additional insured, as applicable, thereunder.
(f) The representations and warranties of Borrower contained in Article V or any other Loan Document shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Effective Date (before and after giving effect to any Credit Extension made or deemed made on the Effective Date); provided that to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date; provided further that any representation and warranty that is qualified as to “materiality”, “Material Adverse Effect” or similar language shall be true and correct (after giving effect to any qualification therein) in all respects on such respective dates.
(g) No Default or Event of Default exists or would result from the Credit Extension made or deemed made on the Effective Date or from the application of the proceeds therefrom.
(h) The Lenders shall have received on or prior to the Effective Date all documentation and other information required by regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including without limitation the PATRIOT Act and customary management background checks, in order to allow the Lenders to comply therewith, in each case, to the extent requested at least five (5) Business Days prior to the Closing Date.
Amendment and Restatement; No Novation (a) This Agreement constitutes an amendment and restatement of the Existing Credit Agreement effective from and after the Restatement Effective Date. The execution and delivery of this Agreement shall not constitute a novation of any Indebtedness or other Obligations owing to the Lenders or the Administrative Agent under the Existing Credit Agreement based on facts or events occurring or existing prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement. On the Restatement Effective Date, the credit facilities described in the Existing Credit Agreement shall be amended, supplemented, modified and restated in their entirety by the facilities described herein, all loans and other obligations of the Borrower outstanding as of such date under the Existing Credit Agreement shall be deemed to be Loans and Obligations outstanding under the corresponding facilities described herein, without any further action by any Person, and participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans shall be deemed to be reallocated as are necessary in order that the outstanding balance of such participations, together with any Loans funded on the Restatement Effective Date, reflect the respective Commitments of the Lenders hereunder.
(b) In connection with the foregoing, by signing this Agreement, each Loan Party hereby confirms that notwithstanding the effectiveness of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby (i) the Obligations of such Loan Party under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents are entitled to the benefits of the guarantees and the security interests set forth or created herein and in the Collateral Documents, (ii) each Guarantor hereby confirms and ratifies its continuing unconditional obligations as Guarantor with respect to all of the Guaranteed Obligations, (iii) each Loan Document to which such Loan Party is a party is, and shall continue to be, in full force and effect and is hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects and shall remain in full force and effect according to its terms and (iv) such Loan Party ratifies and confirms that all Liens granted, conveyed, or assigned to any Agent by such Person pursuant to any Loan Document to which it is a party remain in full force and effect, are not released or reduced, and continue to secure full payment and performance of the Obligations.
Amendment Effectiveness Sections 1.02 and 1.03 of this Amendment shall become effective as of the first date (the “First Incremental Term Facility Amendment Effective Date”) on which the following conditions have been satisfied or waived:
(a) The Administrative Agent and KKR Capital Markets LLC (the “Arranger”) (or their counsel) shall have received from (i) the Borrower, (ii) Holdings, (iii) the First Additional Term B Lender party hereto and (iv) the Administrative Agent, either (x) counterparts of this Amendment signed on behalf of such parties or (y) written evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (which may include facsimile or other electronic transmissions of signed signature pages) that such parties have signed counterparts of this Amendment.
(b) The obligation of the First Additional Term B Lender party hereto to make First Additional Term Loans on the First Incremental Term Facility Amendment Effective Date is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions:
(i) Immediately before and after giving effect to the borrowing of the First Additional Term Loans, the conditions set forth in paragraphs (a) and (b) of Section 4.02 of the Credit Agreement shall be satisfied on and as of the First Incremental Term Facility Amendment Effective Date.
(ii) The Administrative Agent and the First Additional Term B Lender party hereto shall have received a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower dated the First Incremental Term Facility Amendment Effective Date, certifying compliance with clause (i) above.
(iii) The Administrative Agent and the Arranger shall have received a written opinion (addressed to the Administrative Agent and the First Additional Term B Lender party hereto and dated the First Incremental Term Facility Amendment Effective Date) of (i) Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx LLP, New York and Delaware counsel for the Loan Parties and (ii) Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx LLP, special Nevada counsel for the Loan Parties. The Borrower hereby requests each such counsel to deliver such opinion.
(iv) The Administrative Agent and the Arranger shall have received a copy of (i) each Organizational Document of each Loan Party certified, to the extent applicable, as of a recent date by the applicable Governmental Authority (or a representation that such Organizational Documents have not been amended since the Effective Date), (ii) signature and incumbency certificates of the Responsible Officers of each Loan Party executing the Loan Documents to which it is a party (or a representation that such Responsible Officers are the same as those whose signature and incumbency certificates were delivered to the Administrative Agent on the Effective Date), (iii) resolutions of the Board of Directors and/or similar governing bodies of each Loan Party approving and authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of this Amendment, certified as of the First Incremental Term Facility Amendment Effective Date by its secretary, an assistant secretary or a Responsible Officer as being in full force and effect without modification or amendment, and (iv) a good standing certificate (to the extent such concept exists) from the applicable Governmental Authority of each Loan Party’s jurisdiction of incorporation, organization or formation.
(v) The Administrative Agent shall have received a Borrowing Request in a form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent requesting that the First Additional Term B Lender make the First Additional Term Loans to the Borrower on the First Incremental Term Facility Amendment Effective Date.
(vi) Each Loan Party shall have entered into the First Incremental Term Facility Amendment Reaffirmation Agreement.
(vii) The Administrative Agent and the Arranger shall have received all documentation at least three Business Days prior to the First Incremental Term Facility Amendment Effective Date and other information about the Loan Parties that shall have been reasonably requested in writing at least 10 Business Days prior to the First Incremental Term Facility Amendment Effective Date and that the Administrative Agents or the Arranger have reasonably determined is required by United States regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including without limitation Title III of the USA Patriot Act.
(viii) The Administrative Agent shall have received copies of a recent Lien and judgment search in each jurisdiction reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent on or prior to the First Incremental Term Facility Amendment Effective Date with respect to the Loan Parties.
(c) The Administrative Agent and the Arranger shall have received, in immediately available funds, payment or reimbursement of all reasonable and documented costs, fees, out-of-pocket expenses, compensation and other amounts then due and payable in connection with this Amendment, including, to the extent invoiced at least two Business Days prior to the First Incremental Term Facility Amendment Effective Date, the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel for the Administrative Agent and the Arranger.
(d) The Borrower shall have paid to the Arranger the fees in the amounts previously agreed in writing to be received on the First Incremental Term Facility Amendment Effective Date.
(e) The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower, the First Additional Term B Lender and the other Lenders of the First Incremental Term Facility Amendment Effective Date and such notice shall be conclusive and binding. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the amendment effected hereby shall not become effective and the obligations of the First Additional Term B Lender hereunder to make First Additional Term Loans will automatically terminate if each of the conditions set forth or referred to in Section 1.04 hereof has not been satisfied or waived at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on April 25, 2017.
Amendment and Restatement of Prior Agreement The Prior Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as set forth herein. Such amendment and restatement is effective upon the execution of this Agreement on the date hereof by the Company and certain of the Prior Investors who are party hereto, pursuant to Section 5.5 of the Prior Agreement. Upon such execution, all provisions of, rights granted and covenants made in the Prior Agreement are hereby waived, released and superseded in their entirety and shall have no further force or effect, including, without limitation, all rights of first refusal and any notice period associated therewith otherwise applicable to the transactions contemplated by the Purchase Agreement.
Agreement Effective Date This Agreement shall become effective and binding upon each Party immediately following the occurrence of the following conditions (the “Agreement Effective Date”):
(a) Honeywell has executed and delivered counterpart signatures to this Agreement to each other Party;
(b) Oaktree has executed and delivered counterpart signatures to this Agreement to each other Party;
(c) Centerbridge has executed and delivered counterpart signatures to this Agreement to each other Party;
(d) Xxxxxxx has executed and delivered counterpart signatures to this Agreement to each other Party;
(e) The Requisite Additional Investors have executed and delivered counterpart signatures to this Agreement to each other Party; and
(f) The Requisite Consenting Noteholders have executed and delivered counterpart signatures to this Agreement to each other Party. Notwithstanding the occurrence of the Agreement Effective Date, this Agreement contemplates, that, upon the consent of Honeywell, the Plan Sponsors, the Requisite Additional Investors, and the Requisite Consenting Noteholders (which consent of such Parties shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned, or delayed), (i) the Consenting Lenders may become Parties upon execution and delivery of counterpart signature pages of this Agreement to counsel to each other Party and at such time those Prepetition Lenders shall become obligated under this Agreement, (ii) Additional Consenting Noteholders may become Parties upon execution and delivery of counterpart signature pages of this Agreement to counsel to each other Party and at such time those Senior Noteholders shall become obligated under this Agreement, and (iii) the Consenting Equityholders may become Parties upon execution and delivery of counterpart signature pages of this Agreement to counsel to each other party and at such time the Consenting Equityholders shall become obligated under this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, if there is a subsequent Termination Date (defined in Section 9.07) pursuant to Section 9.02 or Section 9.06 with respect to the Debtors, any and all provisions of the Agreement referencing “S&C,” the “Debtor,” or “Debtors” are, and shall continue to be, in full force and effect with respect to the Commitment Parties as if such provisions were written without reference to “S&C,” the “Debtor,” or “Debtors,” and this Agreement shall continue to be in full force and effect with respect to each other Party hereto. Further, for the avoidance of doubt, (i) if the Prepetition Lenders never become a Party, any and all provisions of the Agreement referencing “Xxxxxx,” “Prepetition Lenders,” “Consenting Lenders,” or “Requisite Consenting Lenders” are, and shall continue to be, in full force and effect with respect to the other Commitment Parties as if such provisions were written without reference to those terms and this Agreement shall be in full force and effect with respect to each other Party hereto; and (ii) if Consenting Equityholders other than the Plan Sponsors and the Additional Investors never become a Party, any and all provisions of the Agreement referencing “Consenting Equityholders” or “Requisite Consenting Equityholders” are, and shall continue to be, in full force and effect with respect to the other Commitment Parties as if such provisions were written without reference to those terms and this Agreement shall be in full force and effect with respect to each other Party hereto. Signature pages executed by the Parties set forth in Section 1(a) through (f) shall be delivered to: (a) Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxx LLP (“K&E”), legal counsel to Honeywell; (b) Milbank LLP (“Milbank”), legal counsel to the Plan Sponsors; (c) Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx (“S&C”), legal counsel to the Debtors; (d) Xxxxx Day, legal counsel to the Additional Investors; (e) Ropes & Xxxx LLP (“R&G”), legal counsel to the Consenting Noteholders; and (f) if applicable, legal counsel to the ad hoc committee of Prepetition Lenders, Xxxxxx, Xxxx & Xxxxxxxx, (“Xxxxxx”). Each Commitment Party intends to be and is bound under this Agreement with respect to any and all claims against, or interests in, any of the Debtors, whether currently held or hereafter acquired by such Commitment Party.
Effect of Amendment and Restatement It is the intent of the parties hereto that this Agreement shall, as of the date hereof, replace in its entirety the Original Trust Agreement; provided, however, that with respect to the period of time from January 20, 2021 through the date hereof, the rights and obligations of the parties shall be governed by the Original Trust Agreement; and provided further, that the amendment and restatement of the Original Trust Agreement shall not affect any of the grants, conveyances or transfers contemplated by the Original Trust Agreement to have occurred prior to the date hereof.
