Optional Payments and Modifications of Certain Debt Instruments (a) (i) Make or offer to make any optional or voluntary payment, prepayment, repurchase or redemption of or otherwise optionally or voluntarily defease or segregate funds with respect to any Junior Financing except as permitted by Section 8.6(f), (ii) amend, modify, waive or otherwise change, or consent or agree to any amendment, modification, waiver or other change to, any of the terms of any Junior Financing (other than any amendment that is not materially adverse to the Lenders and in any event any such amendment, modification, waiver or other change that (x) in the case of any Junior Indebtedness (other than Second Lien Indebtedness), (A) would extend the maturity or reduce the amount of any payment of principal thereof or reduce the rate or extend any date for payment of interest thereon and (B) does not involve the payment of a consent fee and (y) in the case of any Second Lien Indebtedness, is permitted pursuant to the applicable intercreditor agreement), (iii) amend, modify, waive or otherwise change, or consent or agree to any amendment, modification, waiver or other change to, any of the terms of any Qualified Capital Stock that would cause such Qualified Capital Stock to become Disqualified Capital Stock; or (iv) designate any Indebtedness (other than obligations of the Loan Parties pursuant to the Loan Documents and Second Lien Indebtedness and in each case any Permitted Refinancing thereof) as “senior debt,” “senior indebtedness,” “designated senior debt,” “guarantor senior debt” or “senior secured financing” (or any comparable term) for the purposes of any Junior Financing Documentation.
Compliance with Consolidation Provisions The Company will not, while any of the Securities remain Outstanding, consolidate with or merge into any other Person, in either case where the Company is not the survivor of such transaction, or sell or convey all or substantially all of its property to any other Person unless the provisions of Article Ten hereof are complied with.
Limitations on Debt Payments and Amendments (a) The Borrower will not, and will not permit the Restricted Subsidiaries to, voluntarily prepay, repurchase or redeem or otherwise defease any Indebtedness that is subordinated in right of payment or lien to the Obligations with Stated Maturities beyond the Latest Maturity Date (the “Junior Indebtedness”); provided, however, that the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries may prepay, repurchase or redeem or otherwise defease Junior Indebtedness (i) in an aggregate amount from the Closing Date not in excess of the sum of (1) so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, (A) the greater of (x) $500,000,000 and (y) 30% of Consolidated EBITDA for the most recently ended Test Period (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) and (B) additional unlimited amounts, provided that the Borrower shall be in compliance on a Pro Forma Basis with a Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio not greater than 2.0 to 1.0 plus (2) the Applicable Equity Amount at the time of such prepayment, repurchase, redemption or other defeasance plus (3) the Applicable Amount at the time of such prepayment, repurchase, redemption or other defeasance, provided that in respect of any prepayments, repurchases or redemptions or defeasances made in reliance of clause (ii) of the definition of Applicable Amount, (A) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom and (B) the Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio is not greater than 4.50 to 1.0 (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect thereto); (ii) with the proceeds from, or in exchange for, Indebtedness permitted under Section 10.1, (iii) by converting, exchanging, redeeming, repaying or prepaying such Junior Indebtedness into, for or with, as applicable, Stock or Stock Equivalents of any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower (other than Disqualified Stock except as permitted hereunder) and (iv) within 60 days of the applicable Redemption Notice if, at the date of any payment, redemption, repurchase, retirement, termination or cancellation notice in respect thereof (each, a “Redemption Notice”), such payment, redemption, repurchase, retirement, termination or cancellation would have complied with another provision of this Section 10.7, provided that such payment, redemption, repurchase, retirement, termination or cancellation shall reduce capacity under such other provision. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Section 10.7 shall prohibit (A) the repayment or prepayment of intercompany subordinated Indebtedness (including under the Intercompany Subordinated Note) owed among the Borrower and/or the Restricted Subsidiaries, in either case unless an Event of Default under Section 11.1 or 11.5 has occurred and is continuing and the Borrower has received a written notice from the Collateral Trustee or Collateral Agent instructing it not to make or permit any such repayment or prepayment or (B) transfers of credit positions in connection with intercompany debt restructurings so long as such Indebtedness is permitted by Section 10.1 after giving effect to such transfer.