Extensions. (i) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Term Loans of any Class (an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, that (1) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request. (ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election. (iii) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1. (iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased). (v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans on such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any other Credit Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a). (vi) In the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendment, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi). (vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
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Samples: Term Loan Credit Agreement (Avaya Holdings Corp.), Term Loan Credit Agreement (Avaya Holdings Corp.), Term Loan Credit Agreement (Avaya Holdings Corp.)
Extensions. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, pursuant to one or more offers (ieach, an “Extension Offer”) The Borrower may at any time and made from time to time request by Borrower to all Lenders holding Term Loans with a like maturity date or all Revolving Lenders having Revolving Loan Commitments with a like commitment termination date, in each case on a pro rata basis (based on the aggregate outstanding principal amount of such respective Term Loans or amounts of Revolving Loan Commitments) and on the same terms to each such Lender, Borrower is hereby permitted to consummate from time to time transactions with individual Lenders that accept the terms contained in any such Extension Offers to extend the maturity date and/or commitment termination of each such Lender’s Term Loans and/or Revolving Loan Commitments, and, subject to the terms hereof, otherwise modify the terms of such Term Loans and/or Revolving Loan Commitments pursuant to the terms of the relevant Extension Offer (including by increasing the interest rate and/or fees payable in respect of such Term Loans and/or Revolving Loan Commitments (and related outstandings) and/or modifying the amortization schedule in respect of such Lender’s Term Loans) (each, an “Extension”; and each group of Term Loans or Revolving Loan Commitments, as applicable, in each case as so extended, as well as the original Term Loans and the original Revolving Loan Commitments (in each case not so extended), being a separate Class), so long as the following terms are satisfied:
(i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time the applicable Extension Offer is delivered to the Lenders;
(ii) except as to final commitment termination date (which shall be determined by Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer, subject to acceptance by the Extended Revolving Lenders), the Revolving Loan Commitment of any Revolving Lender that agrees to an Extension with respect to such Revolving Loan Commitment (an “Extended Revolving Lender”) extended pursuant to an Extension (an “Extended Revolving Loan Commitment” and the Loans thereunder, “Extended Revolving Loans”) and the related outstandings shall be a Revolving Loan Commitment (or related outstandings, as the case may be) with the same terms (or terms not less favorable to existing Revolving Lenders) as the original Revolving Loan Commitments (and related outstandings); provided that (1) the borrowing and payments (except for (A) payments of interest and/or fees at different rates on Extended Revolving Loan Commitments (and related outstandings), (B) repayments required upon the commitment termination date of the non-extended Class of Revolving Loan Commitments and (C) repayment made in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of commitments) of Revolving Loans with respect to Extended Revolving Loan Commitments after the applicable Extension date shall be made on a pro rata basis with all or other Revolving Loan Commitments, (2) subject to Section 10.1(b), all Swing Loans and Letters of Credit shall be participated on a portion pro rata basis by all Lenders with Revolving Loan Commitments (including Extended Revolving Loan Commitments) in accordance with their percentage of the Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitments, (3) the permanent repayment of Revolving Loans with respect to, and termination of, Extended Revolving Loan Commitments after the applicable Extension date shall be made on a pro rata basis with all other Revolving Loan Commitments, except that Borrower shall be permitted to repay permanently and terminate commitments of any such Class on a better than pro rata basis as compared to any other Class with a later commitment termination date than such Class, (4) assignments and participations of Extended Revolving Loan Commitments and related Revolving Loans shall be governed by the same assignment and participation provisions applicable to the other Classes of Revolving Loan Commitments and Revolving Loans and (5) at no time shall there be Revolving Loan Commitments hereunder (including Extended Revolving Loan Commitments and any original Revolving Loan Commitments) which have more than two (2) different maturity dates;
(iii) except as to interest rates, fees, amortization, final maturity date, premium, required prepayment dates and participation in prepayments (which shall, subject to immediately succeeding clauses (iv), (v) and (vi), be determined by Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer, subject to acceptance by the Extending Term Lenders), the Term Loans of any Class Term Lender that agrees to an Extension (such commitment, an “Extended Term Loan Commitment”) with respect to such Term Loans owed to it (an “Existing Extending Term Loan ClassLender”) be converted extended pursuant to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans Extension (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and shall have the same terms as the Class of Term Loans subject to provide such Extension Offer (except for covenants or other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order provisions contained therein applicable only to establish periods after the then Latest Maturity Date);
(iv) the final maturity date of any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request Loans shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, no earlier than the terms Latest Maturity Date of the Term Loans of extended thereby and the Existing Term Loan Class unless (xamortization schedule applicable to Loans pursuant to Section 2.8(a) for periods prior to the Lenders original maturity date of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or shall not be increased;
(y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, that (1v) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or Weighted Average Life to Maturity of any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may shall be delayed to later dates no shorter than the scheduled amortization of principal Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class extended thereby;
(with vi) any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class with non-extended Classes of Term Loans in any voluntary or mandatory prepayments hereunder, in each case as specified in the respective Extension Offer; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(iivii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that if the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based (calculated on the outstanding principal amount thereof) and/or Revolving Loan Commitments, as the case may be, in respect of which Term Lenders or Revolving Lenders, as applicable, shall have accepted the relevant Extension Offer shall exceed the maximum aggregate principal amount of Term Loans included in each or Revolving Loan Commitments, as the case may be, offered to be extended by Borrower pursuant to such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Offer, then the Term Loans and/or Revolving Loans of such Term Lenders or Revolving Lenders, as applicable, shall be established pursuant extended ratably up to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to such maximum amount based on the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders respective principal or commitment amounts with respect to which such Term Lenders and/or Revolving Lenders, as the Extended Term Loans established therebycase may be, have accepted such Extension Offer. With respect to all Extensions consummated by Borrower pursuant to this Section, (i) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent such Extensions shall not constitute voluntary or mandatory payments or prepayments for purposes of Sections 2.7 or 2.8 and the Extending Lenders. No (ii) no Extension Amendment shall provide for Offer is required to be in any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal minimum amount or any minimum increment; provided that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may at its election specify as a condition to consummating any such Extension that a minimum amount (to be determined and specified in the effectiveness of any relevant Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which Offer in Borrower’s sole discretion and may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount Borrower) of Term Loans of the Existing Term or Revolving Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment Commitments (it being understood that the amount as applicable) of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not or all applicable Classes be reduced as a result thereof)tendered. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, fees or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans and/or Extended Revolving Loan Commitments on the such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension AmendmentOffer) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any other Credit Loan Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict conflict with any such extension Extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In the event Section. Any Lender that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series does not respond to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted Offer by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable due date shall be deemed to have rejected such Extension AmendmentOffer. No consent of Agent or any Lender shall be required to effectuate any Extension, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may other than (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without A) the consent of each Lender agreeing to such Extension with respect to one or more of its Term Loans and/or Revolving Loan Commitments (or a portion thereof) and (B) with respect to any Extension of the Revolving Loan Commitments, the consent of the L/C Issuer and Swing Lender. All Extended Term Loans, Extended Revolving Loan Commitments and all obligations in respect thereof shall be Obligations under this Agreement and the other Lender, Loan Documents and secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis with all other applicable Obligations. The Lenders hereby irrevocably authorize Agent to enter into an amendment amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with Borrower (on behalf of all Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”Parties) within 15 days following as may be necessary in order to establish new Classes or sub-Classes in respect of Revolving Loan Commitments or Term Loans so extended and such technical amendments as may be necessary in the effective date reasonable opinion of Agent and Borrower in connection with the establishment of such Extension Amendmentnew Classes or sub-Classes, as in each case on terms consistent with this Section. In addition, if so provided in such amendment and with the case may beconsent of each L/C Issuer, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension participations in Letters of Credit expiring on or after the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or commitment termination date shall be re-allocated from Lenders holding non-extended Revolving Loan Commitments to which it was entitled under Lenders holding Extended Revolving Loan Commitments in accordance with the terms of such Extension Amendmentamendment; provided, however, that such participation interests shall, upon receipt thereof by the relevant Lenders holding Revolving Loan Commitments, be deemed to be participation interests in respect of such Revolving Loan Commitments and the terms of such participation interests shall be adjusted accordingly. Without limiting the foregoing, in connection with any Extensions the absence of such error, applicable Credit Parties shall (Bat their expense) be subject amend (and Agent is hereby directed by the Lenders to amend) any Mortgage that has a maturity date prior to the satisfaction of Latest Maturity Date, so that such conditions as maturity date referenced therein is extended to the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions later of the type required then Latest Maturity Date (or such later date as may be advised by local counsel to be satisfied for Agent). Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)each such amendment. In connection with any Extension, Borrower shall provide Agent at least five (5) Business Days (or such shorter period as may be agreed by Agent) prior written notice thereof, and shall agree to such procedures (including regarding timing, rounding and other adjustments and to ensure reasonable administrative management of the credit facilities hereunder after such Extension), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described if any, as may be established by, or acceptable to, Agent, in Section 2.15(a) each case acting reasonably to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate accomplish the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi10.1(f).
(vii. This Section 10.1(f) No conversion shall supersede any provisions of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary 10.1 or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this AgreementSection 10.11 to the contrary.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Addus HomeCare Corp), Credit Agreement (Addus HomeCare Corp), Credit Agreement (Addus HomeCare Corp)
Extensions. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, pursuant to one or more offers (ieach, an “Extension Offer”) The Borrower may at any time and made from time to time request by the Borrower to all Lenders holding Term Loans with a like maturity date on a pro rata basis (based on the aggregate outstanding principal amount of such respective Term Loans) and on the same terms to each such Lender, the Borrower is hereby permitted to consummate from time to time transactions with individual Lenders that all accept the terms contained in any such Extension Offers to extend the maturity date and/or commitment termination of each such Lender’s Term Loans, and, subject to the terms hereof, otherwise modify the terms of such Term Loans pursuant to the terms of the relevant Extension Offer (including by increasing the interest rate and/or fees payable in respect of such Term Loans and/or modifying the amortization schedule in respect of such Lender’s Term Loans) (each, an “Extension”; and each group of Term Loans in each case as so extended, as well as the original Term Loans (in each case not so extended), being a separate Class), so long as the following terms are satisfied:
(i) no Default or a portion Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time the applicable Extension Offer is delivered to the Lenders;
(ii) [Reserved];
(iii) except as to interest rates, fees, amortization, final maturity date, premium, required prepayment dates and participation in prepayments (which shall, subject to immediately succeeding clauses (iv), (v) and (vi), be determined by the Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer, subject to acceptance by the Extending Term Lenders), the Term Loans of any Class Term Lender that agrees to an Extension (such commitment, an “Extended Term Loan Commitment”) with respect to such Term Loans owed to it (an “Existing Extending Term Loan ClassLender”) be converted extended pursuant to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans Extension (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and shall have the same terms as the Class of Term Loans subject to provide such Extension Offer (except for covenants or other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order provisions contained therein applicable only to establish periods after the then Latest Maturity Date);
(iv) the final maturity date of any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request Loans shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, no earlier than the terms Latest Maturity Date of the Term Loans of extended thereby and the Existing Term Loan Class unless (xamortization schedule applicable to Loans pursuant to Section 2.8(a) for periods prior to the Lenders original maturity date of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or shall not be increased;
(y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, that (1v) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or Weighted Average Life to Maturity of any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may shall be delayed to later dates no shorter than the scheduled amortization of principal Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class extended thereby;
(with vi) any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class with non-extended Classes of Term Loans in any voluntary or mandatory prepayments hereunder, in each case as specified in the respective Extension Offer; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(iivii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that if the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based (calculated on the outstanding principal amount thereof) in respect of which Term Lenders shall have accepted the relevant Extension Offer shall exceed the maximum aggregate principal amount of Term Loans included in each offered to be extended by the Borrower pursuant to such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Offer, then the Term Loans of such Term Lenders shall be established pursuant extended ratably up to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to such maximum amount based on the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders respective principal or commitment amounts with respect to the Extended which such Term Loans established thereby) executed Lenders have accepted such Extension Offer. With respect to all Extensions consummated by the Credit PartiesBorrower pursuant to this Section, the Administrative Agent (i) such Extensions shall not constitute voluntary or mandatory payments or prepayments for purposes of Sections 2.7 or 2.8 and the Extending Lenders. No (ii) no Extension Amendment shall provide for Offer is required to be in any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal minimum amount or any minimum increment; provided that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may at its election specify as a condition to consummating any such Extension that a minimum amount (to be determined and specified in the effectiveness of any relevant Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which Offer in the Borrower’s sole discretion and may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount Borrower) of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to or any or all applicable Classes be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof)tendered. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, fees or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans on the such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension AmendmentOffer) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any other Credit Loan Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict conflict with any such extension Extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(aSection. Any Lender that does not respond to an Extension Offer by the applicable due date shall be deemed to have rejected such Extension Offer. No consent of Agent or any Lender shall be required to effectuate any Extension, other than the consent of each Lender agreeing to such Extension with respect to one or more of its Term Loans (or a portion thereof).
(vi) In the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of . All Extended Term Loans of and all obligations in respect thereof shall be Obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and secured by the Collateral on a given Extension Series pari passu basis with all other applicable Obligations. The Lenders hereby irrevocably authorize Agent to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the Borrower (on behalf of all Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”Parties) within 15 days following as may be necessary in order to establish new Classes or sub-Classes in respect of Term Loans so extended and such technical amendments as may be necessary in the effective date reasonable opinion of Agent and the Borrower in connection with the establishment of such Extension Amendmentnew Classes or sub-Classes, as in each case on terms consistent with this Section. Without limiting the case may beforegoing, which Corrective Extension Amendment in connection with any Extensions the applicable Credit Parties shall (Aat their expense) provide for amend (and Agent is hereby directed by the conversion and extension Lenders to amend) any Mortgage that has a maturity date prior to the Latest Maturity Date, so that such maturity date referenced therein is extended to the later of the applicable Term Loans in then Latest Maturity Date (or such amount later date as is required may be advised by local counsel to cause such Agent). Agent shall promptly notify each Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which effectiveness of each such other Term Loans were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agentamendment. In connection with any Extension, the Borrower shall provide Agent at least five (5) Business Days (or such shorter period as may be agreed by Agent) prior written notice thereof, and shall agree to such Lender may agree procedures (including conditions regarding timing, rounding and other adjustments and to ensure reasonable administrative management of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)credit facilities hereunder after such Extension), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described if any, as may be established by, or acceptable to, Agent, in Section 2.15(a) each case acting reasonably to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate accomplish the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi10.1(f).
(vii. This Section 10.1(f) No conversion shall supersede any provisions of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary 10.1 or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this AgreementSection 10.11 to the contrary.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Rimini Street, Inc.), Credit Agreement (Rimini Street, Inc.), Credit Agreement (Rimini Street, Inc.)
Extensions. (ia) The Borrower may at any time and Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, pursuant to one or more offers (each, an “Extension Offer”) made from time to time request that by the Borrower to all or Lenders of Term B Loans with a portion like maturity date, in each case on a pro rata basis (based on the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the respective Term B Loans with a like maturity date) and on the same terms to each such Lender, the Borrower is hereby permitted to consummate from time to time transactions with individual Lenders that accept the terms contained in such Extension Offers to extend the maturity date of each such Lender’s Term B Loans and otherwise modify the terms of such Term B Loans pursuant to the terms of the relevant Extension Offer (including by increasing the interest rate or fees payable in respect of such Term B Loans and/or modifying the amortization schedule in respect of such Lender’s Term B Loans) (each, an “Extension,” and each group of Term B Loans as so extended, as well as the original Term B Loans (not so extended), being a “tranche”; any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate tranche of Term Loans from the tranche of Term Loans from which they were converted), so long as the following terms are satisfied: (i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time the offering document in respect of an Extension Offer is delivered to the Lenders, (ii) [reserved], (iii) except as to interest rates, fees, amortization, final maturity date, premium, required prepayment dates and participation in prepayments (which shall, subject to immediately succeeding clauses (iv), (v), and (vi), be determined between the Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer), the Term B Loans of any Class (Term B Lender that agrees to an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal extension with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term B Loans extended pursuant to any Extension (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, the “Extended Term Loans”) and shall have the same terms as the tranche of Term B Loans subject to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order to establish such Extension Offer, (iv) the final maturity date of any Extended Term Loans, Loans shall be no earlier than the Borrower shall provide a notice maturity date of the Term B Loans from which they were converted and the amortization schedule applicable to Term B Loans pursuant to Section 2.10(a) for periods prior to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall Maturity Date may not be offered equally to all such Lendersincreased, (v) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms weighted average life of the any Extended Term Loans to shall be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, no shorter than the terms remaining weighted average life of the Term B Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless extended thereby, (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (yvi) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, that (1) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than a pro rata basis) in any voluntary or mandatory repayments or prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term B Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by for repayments required upon the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the principal amount scheduled maturity date of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into non-Extended Term Loans. In ), in each case as specified in the event that respective Extension Offer, (vii) if the aggregate principal amount of Term B Loans (calculated on the face amount thereof) in respect of which Term B Lenders shall have accepted the relevant Extension Offer shall exceed the maximum aggregate principal amount of Term B Loans offered to be extended by the Borrower pursuant to such Extension Offer, then the Term B Loans of such Term B Lenders shall be extended ratably up to such maximum amount based on the Existing respective principal amounts (but not to exceed actual holdings of record) with respect to which such Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to B Lenders have accepted such Extension Elections exceeds Offer, (viii) [reserved], (ix) all documentation in respect of such Extension shall be consistent with the amount foregoing, (x) any applicable Minimum Extension Condition shall be satisfied unless waived by the Borrower and (xi) the Minimum Tranche Amount shall be satisfied unless waived by the Administrative Agent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall there be more than six maturity dates in respect of the Credit Facilities (including any Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the or Replacement Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term Loans included in each such Extension ElectionLoans).
(iiib) With respect to all Extensions consummated by the Borrower pursuant to this Section, (i) such Extensions shall not constitute voluntary or mandatory payments or prepayments for purposes of Section 2.11 and (ii) no Extension Offer is required to be in any minimum amount or any minimum increment, provided that (x) the Borrower may at its election specify as a condition (a “Minimum Extension Condition”) to consummating any such Extension that a minimum amount (to be determined and specified in the relevant Extension Offer in the Borrower’s sole discretion and may be waived by the Borrower) of Term B Loans of any or all applicable tranches be tendered and (y) no tranche of Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is of less than $10,000,000 and 50,000,000 (the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension “Minimum ConditionTranche Amount”), which may be unless such Minimum Tranche Amount is waived by the Borrower in its sole discretionAdministrative Agent. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, fees or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans on such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension AmendmentOffer) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment sectionincluding Sections 2.11 and 2.18) or any other Credit Loan Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension Extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a)Section.
(vic) In the event that No consent of any Lender or the Administrative Agent determinesshall be required to effectuate any Extension, and other than the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation consent of each Lender agreeing to such Extension with respect to one or more of its Term Loans. All Extended Term Loans of and all obligations in respect thereof shall be Obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents that are secured by the Collateral on a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in pari passu basis with all other applicable Obligations under this Agreement and the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then other Loan Documents. The Lenders hereby irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, Agent to enter into an amendment amendments to this Agreement and the other Credit Loan Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following with the effective date Borrower as may be necessary in order to establish new tranches or sub-tranches in respect of Term Loans so extended and such technical amendments as may be necessary or appropriate in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower in connection with the establishment of such Extension Amendmentnew tranches or sub-tranches, in each case on terms consistent with this Section. Without limiting the foregoing, in connection with any Extensions the respective Loan Parties shall (at their expense) amend (and the Administrative Agent is hereby directed to amend) any Mortgage that has a maturity date prior to the then latest maturity date so that such maturity date is extended to the then latest maturity date (or such later date as may be advised by local counsel to the Administrative Agent).
(d) In connection with any Extension, the Borrower shall provide the Administrative Agent at least five Business Days’ (or such shorter period as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent) prior written notice thereof, and shall agree to such procedures (including regarding timing, rounding and other adjustments and to ensure reasonable administrative management of the credit facilities hereunder after such Extension), if any, as the case may bebe established by, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially convertedor acceptable to, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required in each case acting reasonably to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate accomplish the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi)Section.
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Horizon Global Corp), Term Loan Amendment (Horizon Global Corp), Term Loan Credit Agreement (Horizon Global Corp)
Extensions. (ia) The Borrower may at any time time, and from time to time time, request that all or a portion of the Term Loans of any Class (an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans Existing Class (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.153.1. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable such Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally to all such LendersClass) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (AI) reflect market terms and conditions be identical as offered to each Lender under such Existing Class (taken including as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties proposed interest rates and fees payable) and offered pro rata to each Lender under such Existing Class and (as determined in good faith by II) be identical to the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless from which they are to be converted except (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, that (1w) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and any or all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of the aggregate principal amount of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 2.14 or in the applicable Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)3.1(b) below), (2)(Ax) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by (A) the Borrower Eurodollar Margin and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) ABR Margin with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins Eurodollar Margin and floors the ABR Margin for the Term Existing Class (or another interest rate mechanism or other interest rates for such Extended Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class may be agreed to by the Lenders providing the Extended Loans and the Borrower) and/or (B) additional fees (including original issue discount and upfront fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments ) may be payable solely to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items increased margins contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4y) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, thereof and (z) the Extension Amendment relating to such Extended Loans may provide for other covenants and terms applicable to such Extended Loans that apply solely to any period after the Latest Maturity Date that is in effect on the effective date of the Extension Amendment (immediately prior to the establishment of such Extended Loans); provided that (i) any Extended Loans may participate in any voluntary or mandatory repayments or prepayments hereunder on a pro rata basis or less than a pro rata basis (but not greater than a pro rata basis) with respect to the principal amount Loans of the Existing Class from which they are to be converted, in each case as specified in the respective Loan Extension Request; (ii) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time an Extension Amendment becomes effective; (iii) the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of any Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series at the time of establishment thereof shall not exceed be no shorter (other than by virtue of amortization or prepayment of such Indebtedness prior to the principal amount time of incurrence of such Extended Loans) than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity, as of the Term date of the Extension Amendment relating to such Extended Loans, of the Existing Class; (iv) in no event shall the final maturity date of any Extended Loans of a given Extension Series at the time of establishment thereof be earlier than the then Latest Maturity Date of any other Class of Loans hereunder; (v) any such Extended Loans (and the Liens securing the same) shall be permitted by the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement (to the extent the Intercreditor Agreement is then in effect); (vi) at no time shall there be Classes of Loans hereunder (including Incremental Loans, Extended Loans and Refinancing Loans) that have more than six (6) different maturity dates; and (vii) all documentation in respect of such Extension Amendment shall be consistent with the foregoing. Any Extended Loans amended pursuant to any Extension Amendment shall be designated a separate Extension Series of Extended Loans for all purposes of this Agreement; provided that any Extended Loans may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any previously established Class of Loans that has a later maturity date than the Loans of the Existing Class from which such Loans are being extended except as otherwise permitted hereinextended. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(iib) The Borrower shall provide the applicable Loan Extension Request at least five (5) Business Days prior to the date on which Lenders of the Existing Class (the “Existing Lenders”) are requested to respond. Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Existing Class of Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Existing Class of Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans; provided that if any Existing Lenders fail to respond, such Existing Lenders will be deemed to have declined to extend their Loans. In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes of Loans subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term the Existing Class of Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iiic) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class tranche of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and 25,000,000 (unless the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretionAdministrative Agent shall agree to a lesser amount). In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a3.1(a), each Extension Amendment (x) shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 2.14 or the applicable Extension Amendment Joinder Agreement with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount amortization payment for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be that shall have been converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment Amendment, (it being understood that y) may, but shall not be required to, impose additional requirements (not inconsistent with the amount provisions of any Repayment Amount payable this Agreement in effect at such time) with respect to any individual Term Loan the final maturity and Weighted Average Life to Maturity of Incremental Loans incurred following the date of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan Extension Amendment and (z) shall not provide for such other technical amendments to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents as may be reduced as a result thereof)necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent, to give effect to the foregoing Extension Amendments, and the Lenders hereby expressly authorize the Administrative Agent to enter into any such Extension Amendment. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, 3.1 and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a3.1 Additional Amendments (as defined below) Additional Amendmentsor any of the consents or votes of the Required Lenders, all affected Lenders or all Lenders that may be required pursuant to Section 13.1, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) 3.1 Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) 3.1 Additional Amendments comply with are within the requirements of Section 2.15(a3.1(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) 3.1 Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Joinder Agreement and Refinancing Loans provided for in any Refinancing Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) 3.1 Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(ivd) Notwithstanding anything The effectiveness of any Extension Amendment shall be subject to the contrary contained in this Agreement, satisfaction on any the date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case thereof of each of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class mayconditions set forth in Section 3.1(a) and, to the extent provided reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, receipt by the Administrative Agent of (i) items similar to those in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization Section 6 with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) any Extension Amendment (including, for with references to the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans on such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any other Credit Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated Closing Date being replaced by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendment, ) (it being understood that any such items that are substantially consistent with those delivered on the Closing Date shall be satisfactory) and (ii) reaffirmation agreements and/or such amendments to the Security Documents as may be reasonably requested by the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for Collateral Agent in order to ensure that the conversion and extension Extended Loans are provided with the benefit of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans Credit Documents. Each exercise of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, as the case may be, extension feature referred to in this Section 3.1 shall result in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred Extended Loans and had such Lender received the minimum allocation Existing Class each being deemed a separate Class of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a))Loans, and (C) effect such other amendments any Class of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described Loans may thereafter be extended in Section 2.15(a) whole or in part pursuant to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi3.1 (whether or not such Class had previously been offered an extension pursuant to this Section 3.1).
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (WABASH NATIONAL Corp), Credit Agreement (WABASH NATIONAL Corp), Credit Agreement (Wabash National Corp /De)
Extensions. (ia) The Borrower may at any time and Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, pursuant to one or more offers (each, an “Extension Offer”) made from time to time request that all or a portion of the Term Loans of any Class (an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to by each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally Borrowers to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent Lenders with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, that (1) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were convertedRevolver Commitments, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not based on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed applicable Revolver Commitments), the principal amount Borrowers are hereby permitted to consummate from time to time transactions with individual Lenders that accept the terms contained in such Extension Offers to extend the maturity date of each such Lender’s Revolver Commitments and otherwise modify the terms of such Revolver Commitments pursuant to the terms of the Term Loans being extended except relevant Extension Offer (to the extent permitted hereunder) (each, an “Extension”), so long as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant the following terms are satisfied with respect to any Term Loan Extension Request.
such Extension: (i) [Reserved], (ii) Any each Extension Offer made to any Revolver Lender of any Tranche must be made on the same terms to each Revolver Lender of such Tranche, (iii) each Extension Offer shall provide that the proposed extended Tranche shall have the same terms as the original Revolver Commitments (and related outstandings) to be extended, except for the extension of the maturity date, and changes to interest rates, fees (including agreements as to additional administrative fees to be paid by the Borrowers), amortization and final maturity (which shall be determined by the Borrowers and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer), (iv) any applicable Minimum Extension Condition shall be satisfied unless waived by the Borrowers and (v) at no time shall there be Revolver Commitments hereunder (including Revolver Commitments in respect of any Extended Tranche and any original Revolver Commitments) which have more than three different maturity dates, unless otherwise agreed by the Agent and the Borrowers. The Revolver Commitments of any Lender that agrees to an extension with respect to such Revolver Commitment (an “Extending Lender”) wishing extended pursuant to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan an Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension ElectionExtended Tranche”), and the related outstandings, shall be a Revolver Commitment (or related outstandings, as the case may be) on or prior with the same terms as the original Revolver Commitments (and related outstandings) except as provided above; provided that, subject to the provisions of Section 2 to the extent dealing with Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans which mature or expire after a maturity date specified when there exist Revolver Commitments with a longer maturity date, all Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans shall be participated in such Term Loan Extension Request on a Pro Rata basis by all Lenders with Revolver Commitments in accordance with their respective Pro Rata shares of the amount Revolver Commitments and all borrowings under Revolver Commitments and repayments thereunder shall be made on a Pro Rata basis (except for (A) payments of its Term Loans interest and fees at different rates on Extended Tranches (and related outstandings) and (B) repayments required upon the maturity date of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loansnon-extending Revolver Commitments). In Each group of Revolver Commitments, as so extended, as well as the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Requestoriginal Revolver Commitments (not so extended), Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections as applicable, shall be converted to considered separate “tranches” (each, a “Tranche”), with any Extended Term Loans on Tranche of Revolver Commitments constituting a pro rata basis based on separate tranche of Revolver Commitments from the amount tranche of Term Loans included in each such Extension ElectionRevolver Commitments from which they were converted).
(iiib) Extended Term Loans shall be established With respect to all Extensions consummated by the Borrowers pursuant to an amendment this Section 2.1.10, (an i) such Extensions shall not constitute optional or mandatory payments or prepayments for purposes of this Agreement and (ii) no Extension Offer is required to be in any minimum amount or any minimum increment, provided that the Borrowers may at their election specify as a condition (a “Minimum Extension AmendmentCondition”) to this Agreement consummating any such Extension that a minimum amount (which, except to be determined and specified in the extent expressly contemplated by relevant Extension Offer in the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) Borrowers’ sole discretion and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may which condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount Borrowers) of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount Revolver Commitments of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not or all applicable tranches be reduced as a result thereof)extended. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) 2.1.10 (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, fees or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans Tranches on such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension AmendmentOffer) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment sectionSections 5.2 and 5.6) or any other Credit Loan Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension Extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a)2.1.10.
(vic) In No consent of any Lender or the event that the Administrative Agent determinesshall be required to effectuate any Extension, and the Borrower agrees other than (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without A) the consent of each Lender agreeing to such Extension with respect to its Revolver Commitments (or a portion thereof) and (B) with respect to any Extension of the Revolver Commitments, the consent of each Fronting Bank and the Swingline Lender (in each case in its sole discretion). All Extended Tranches and all obligations in respect thereof shall be Obligations under this Agreement and the other Lender, Loan Documents that are secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis with all other Obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. The Lenders hereby irrevocably authorize the Agent to enter into an amendment amendments to this Agreement and the other Credit Loan Documents with the Borrowers as may be necessary in order to establish new tranches or sub-tranches in respect of Revolver Commitments so extended, which shall permit the repayment of non-extending Loans on the Termination Date, and such technical amendments as may be necessary or appropriate in the reasonable opinion of the Agent and the Borrowers in connection therewith, in each case on terms consistent with this Section 2.1.10. Without limiting the foregoing, in connection with any Extensions the respective Loan Parties shall (eachat their expense) amend (and the Agent is hereby directed to amend) any Mortgage that has a maturity date prior to the then latest maturity date so that such maturity date is extended to the then latest maturity date (or such later date as may be advised by local counsel to the Agent).
(d) In connection with any Extension, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”the Borrowers shall provide the Agent at least 10 Business Days’ (or such shorter period as may be agreed by the Agent) within 15 days following prior written notice thereof, and shall agree to such procedures (including, without limitation, regarding timing, rounding and other adjustments and to ensure reasonable administrative management of the effective date of credit facilities hereunder after such Extension AmendmentExtension), if any, as may be established by, or acceptable to, the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, as the case may beAgent, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments each case acting reasonably to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate accomplish the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi)2.1.10.
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
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Samples: Abl Credit Agreement (Target Hospitality Corp.), Abl Credit Agreement (Target Hospitality Corp.), Abl Credit Agreement (Target Hospitality Corp.)
Extensions. (i) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Term Loans of any Class (an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Term Loan Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuanceDate; provided, however, that (1) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii2.15(a)(v)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but but, except as otherwise permitted by this Agreement, not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the First Lien Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and ), (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereofthereof and (5) the Extension Amendment may provide for other covenants and terms that apply solely to any period after the Latest Term Loan Maturity Date, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans of any Extension Series shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(vii) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Revolving Credit Commitments of any Class, each existing at the time of such request (each, an “Existing Revolving Credit Commitment” and any related Revolving Credit Loans thereunder, “Existing Revolving Credit Loans”; each Existing Revolving Credit Commitment and related Existing Revolving Credit Loans together being referred to as an “Existing Revolving Credit Class”) be converted to extend the termination date thereof and the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of Existing Revolving Credit Loans related to such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (any such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments which have been so extended, “Extended Revolving Credit Commitments” and any related Revolving Credit Loans, “Extended Revolving Credit Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15(a). In order to establish any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Class of Existing Revolving Credit Commitments which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Revolving Credit Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments to be established, which, shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Revolving Credit Commitments, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (the “Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment”) unless (x) the Lenders providing Existing Revolving Credit Loans receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date of any Revolving Credit Commitments then outstanding under this Agreement, in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment; provided, however, that (w) all or any of the final maturity dates of such Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be delayed to later dates than the final maturity dates of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments, (x) (A) the interest rates, interest margins, rate floors, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discount and premiums with respect to the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be higher or lower than the interest margins rate floors, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discount and premiums for the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments and/or (B) additional fees and premiums may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Revolving Credit Commitments in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), (y) the commitment fee rate with respect to the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be higher or lower than the commitment fee rate for the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment and (z) unless otherwise permitted hereby, the amount of the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and the Lenders hereby consent principal amount of the Extended Revolving Credit Loans shall not exceed the amount of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments being extended and the principal amount of the related Existing Revolving Credit Loans being extended, respectively, and provided further that, notwithstanding anything to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by contrary in this Section 2.15(a) or otherwise, (including, for 1) the avoidance borrowing and repayment (other than in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of doubt, payment commitments) of any interest, fees, or premium in respect of the Extended Revolving Credit Loans under any Extended Term Loans Revolving Credit Commitments shall be made on such terms as a pro rata basis with any borrowings and repayments of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments and each other Class of Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (the mechanics for which may be implemented through the applicable Extension Amendment and may include technical changes related to the borrowing and repayment procedures of the applicable Credit Facility) and (2) assignments and participations of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and Extended Revolving Credit Loans shall be governed by the same assignment and participation provisions applicable to Revolving Credit Commitments and the Revolving Credit Loans related to such Commitments set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment) and hereby waive the requirements Section 13.6. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Revolving Credit Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments of any provision Existing Revolving Credit Class converted into Extended Revolving Credit Loans or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to any Revolving Credit Loan Extension Request. Any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or Extension Series shall constitute a separate Class of revolving credit commitments from the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments and from any other Existing Revolving Credit Document Commitments; provided that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In Extended Revolving Credit Commitments converted from an Existing Revolving Credit Class may, to the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Revolving Credit Commitments other than the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Existing Revolving Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendment, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into Class from which such other Term Loans Extended Revolving Credit Commitments were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi).
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Vistra Corp.), Credit Agreement (Vistra Energy Corp.)
Extensions. (i) The Borrower may at any time and Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Loan Agreement, pursuant to one or more offers (each, an “Extension Offer”) made from time to time request by the Administrative Borrower to all Lenders holding Term Loans with a like maturity date or all Revolving Lenders having Revolving Loan Commitments with a like commitment termination date, in each case on a pro rata basis (based on the aggregate outstanding principal amount of such respective Term Loans or amounts of Revolving Loan Commitments) and on the same terms to each such Lender, the Administrative Borrower is hereby permitted to consummate from time to time transactions with individual Lenders that accept the terms contained in any such Extension Offers to extend the maturity date and/or commitment termination of each such Lender’s Term Loans and/or Revolving Loan Commitments, and, subject to the terms hereof, otherwise modify the terms of such Term Loans and/or Revolving Loan Commitments pursuant to the terms of the relevant Extension Offer (including by increasing the interest rate and/or fees payable in respect of such Term Loans and/or Revolving Loan Commitments (and related outstandings) and/or modifying the amortization schedule in respect of such Lender’s Term Loans) (each, an “Extension”; and each group of Term Loans or Revolving Loan Commitments, as applicable, in each case as so extended, as well as the original Term Loans and the original Revolving Loan Commitments (in each case not so extended), being a separate “tranche”), so long as the following terms are satisfied:
(A) No Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time the applicable Extension Offer is delivered to the Lenders;
(B) except as to interest rates, fees and final commitment termination date (which shall be determined by the Administrative Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer, subject to acceptance by the Extended Revolving Loan Lenders), the Revolving Loan Commitment of any Revolving Lender that agrees to an Extension with respect to such Revolving Loan Commitment (an “Extended Revolving Loan Lender”) extended pursuant to an Extension (an “Extended Revolving Loan Commitment”) and the related outstandings shall be a Revolving Loan Commitment (or related outstandings, as the case may be) with the same terms (or terms not less favorable to existing Revolving Lenders) as the original Revolving Loan Commitments (and related outstandings); provided that (1) the borrowing and payments (except for (x) payments of interest and/or fees at different rates on Extended Revolving Loan Commitments (and related outstandings), (y) repayments required upon the commitment termination date of the non-extended tranche of Revolving Loan Commitments and (z) repayment made in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of commitments) of Revolving Loans with respect to Extended Revolving Loan Commitments after the applicable Extension date shall be made on a pro rata basis with all or other Revolving Loan Commitments, (2) [reserved], (3) the permanent repayment of Revolving Loans with respect to, and termination of, Extended Revolving Loan Commitments after the applicable Extension date shall be made on a portion pro rata basis with all other Revolving Loan Commitments, except that the Borrowers shall be permitted to repay permanently and terminate commitments of any such tranche on a better than pro rata basis as compared to any other tranche with a later commitment termination date than such tranche, (4) assignments and participations of Extended Revolving Loan Commitments and related Revolving Loans shall be governed by the same assignment and participation provisions applicable to the other tranches of Revolving Loan Commitments and Revolving Loans and (5) at no time shall there be Revolving Loan Commitments hereunder (including Extended Revolving Loan Commitments and any original Revolving Loan Commitments) which have more than two (2) different maturity dates;
(C) except as to interest rates, fees, amortization, final maturity date, premium, required prepayment dates and participation in prepayments (which shall, subject to immediately succeeding clauses (D), (E) and (F), be determined by the Administrative Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer, subject to acceptance by the Extending Term Lenders), the Term Loans of any Class Term Lender that agrees to an Extension with respect to such Term Loans owed to it (an “Existing Extending Term Loan ClassLender”) be converted extended pursuant to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans Extension (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and shall have the same terms as the tranche of Term Loans subject to provide such Extension Offer (except for covenants or other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order provisions contained therein applicable only to establish periods after the then latest maturity date);
(D) the final maturity date of any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request Loans shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, no earlier than the terms latest maturity date of the Term Loans of extended thereby and the Existing Term Loan Class unless (xamortization schedule applicable to Loans pursuant to Section 2.03(a) for periods prior to the Lenders original maturity date of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or shall not be increased;
(y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, that (1E) the scheduled final average weighted maturity date shall be extended and all or of any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed for the period prior to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal maturity of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms extended thereby shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower no shorter than the interest margins and floors for average weighted maturity of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or extended thereby;
(BF) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class with non-extended tranches of Term Loans in any voluntary or mandatory prepayments hereunder, in each case as specified in the respective Extension Offer; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(iiG) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that if the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based (calculated on the outstanding principal amount thereof) and/or Revolving Loan Commitments, as the case may be, in respect of which Term Lenders or Revolving Lenders, as applicable, shall have accepted the relevant Extension Offer shall exceed the maximum aggregate principal amount of Term Loans included in each or Revolving Loan Commitments, as the case may be, offered to be extended by the Borrowers pursuant to such Extension ElectionOffer, then the Term Loans and/or Revolving Loans of such Term Lenders or Revolving Lenders, as applicable, shall be extended ratably up to such maximum amount based on the respective principal or commitment amounts with respect to which such Term Lenders and/or Revolving Lenders, as the case may be, have accepted such Extension Offer.
(iiiii) Extended Term Loans shall be established With respect to all Extensions consummated by the Borrowers pursuant to an amendment this clause (an “Extension Amendment”ii), (A) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, such Extensions shall not require the consent constitute voluntary or mandatory payments or prepayments for purposes of Sections 4.01 and 4.02 and (B) no Extension Offer is required to be in any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, minimum amount or any minimum increment; provided that the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may at its election specify as a condition to consummating any such Extension that a minimum amount (to be determined and specified in the effectiveness of any relevant Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which Offer in the Administrative Borrower’s sole discretion and may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount Administrative Borrower) of Term Loans of the Existing Term or Revolving Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment Commitments (it being understood that the amount as applicable) of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not or all applicable tranches be reduced as a result thereof)tendered. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, fees or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans and/or Extended Revolving Loan Commitments on such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension AmendmentOffer) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Loan Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any other Credit Loan Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict conflict with any such extension Extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(aSection.
(iii) No consent of any Lender or the Administrative Agent shall be required to effectuate any Extension, other than the consent of each Lender agreeing to such Extension with respect to one or more of its Term Loans and/or Revolving Loan Commitments (or a portion thereof). All Extended Term Loans, Extended Revolving Loan Commitments and all obligations in respect thereof shall be Obligations under this Loan Agreement and the other Loan Documents and secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis with all other applicable Obligations. The Lenders hereby irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent to enter into amendments to this Loan Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the Administrative Borrower (on behalf of all Loan Parties) as may be necessary in order to establish new tranches or sub-tranches in respect of Revolving Loan Commitments or Term Loans so extended and such technical amendments as may be necessary in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Borrower in connection with the establishment of such new tranches or sub-tranches, in each case on terms consistent with this Section. Without limiting the foregoing, in connection with any Extensions the applicable Loan Parties shall (at their expense) amend (and Administrative Agent is hereby directed by the Lenders to amend) any Security Document that has a maturity date prior to the later of the then latest (x) maturity date of the Term Loans and (y) scheduled termination date of the Revolving Loan Commitments, so that such maturity date referenced therein is extended to the later of the then (x) latest maturity date of the Term Loans and (y) scheduled termination date of the Revolving Loan Commitments (or such later date as may be advised by local counsel to the Administrative Agent). Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the effectiveness of each such amendment.
(iv) In connection with any Extension, the Administrative Borrower shall provide the Administrative Agent at least ten (10) Business Days (or such shorter period as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent) prior written notice thereof, and shall agree to such procedures (including regarding timing, rounding and other adjustments and to ensure reasonable administrative management of the credit facilities hereunder after such Extension), if any, as may be established by, or acceptable to, Administrative Agent, in each case acting reasonably to accomplish the purposes of this clause (e).
(viv) In the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees This clause (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of e) shall supersede any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendment, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes provisions of this Section 2.15(a)(vi)12.01 to the contrary.
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
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Samples: Loan Agreement (Spark Networks SE), Loan Agreement (Spark Networks SE)
Extensions. (ia) The Borrower may at any time and Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, pursuant to one or more offers (each, an “Extension Offer”) made from time to time request that by the Borrower to all or Lenders of Term B Loans with a portion like maturity date, in each case on a pro rata basis (based on the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the respective Term B Loans with a like maturity date) and on the same terms to each such Lender, the Borrower is hereby permitted to consummate from time to time transactions with individual Lenders that accept the terms contained in such Extension Offers to extend the maturity date of each such Lender’s Term B Loans and otherwise modify the terms of such Term B Loans pursuant to the terms of the relevant Extension Offer (including by increasing the interest rate or fees payable in respect of such Term B Loans and/or modifying the amortization schedule in respect of such Lender’s Term B Loans) (each, an “Extension,” and each group of Term B Loans as so extended, as well as the original Term B Loans (not so extended), being a “tranche”; any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate tranche of Term Loans from the tranche of Term Loans from which they were converted), so long as the following terms are satisfied: (i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time the offering document in respect of an Extension Offer is delivered to the Lenders, (ii) [reserved], (iii) except as to interest rates, fees, amortization, final maturity date, premium, required prepayment dates and participation in prepayments (which shall, subject to immediately succeeding clauses (iv), (v), and (vi), be determined between the Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer), the Term B Loans of any Class (Term B Lender that agrees to an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal extension with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term B Loans extended pursuant to any Extension (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, the “Extended Term Loans”) and shall have the same terms as the tranche of Term B Loans subject to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order to establish such Extension Offer, (iv) the final maturity date of any Extended Term Loans, Loans shall be no earlier than the Borrower shall provide a notice maturity date of the Term B Loans from which they were converted and the amortization schedule applicable to Term B Loans pursuant to Section 2.10(a) for periods prior to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall Maturity Date may not be offered equally to all such Lendersincreased, (v) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms weighted average life of the any Extended Term Loans to shall be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, no shorter than the terms remaining weighted average life of the Term B Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless extended thereby, (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (yvi) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, that (1) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than a pro rata basis) in any voluntary or mandatory repayments or prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term B Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by for repayments required upon the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the principal amount scheduled maturity date of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into non-Extended Term Loans. In ), in each case as specified in the event that respective Extension Offer, (vii) if the aggregate principal amount of Term B Loans (calculated on the face amount thereof) in respect of which Term B Lenders shall have accepted the relevant Extension Offer shall exceed the maximum aggregate principal amount of Term B Loans offered to be extended by the Borrower pursuant to such Extension Offer, then the Term B Loans of the Existing such Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections B Lenders shall be converted extended ratably up to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis such maximum amount based on the amount respective principal amounts (but not to exceed actual holdings of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iiirecord) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to which such Term B Lenders have accepted such Extension Offer, (viii) [reserved], (ix) all documentation in respect of such Extension shall be consistent with the Extended Term Loans established therebyforegoing, (x) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No any applicable Minimum Extension Amendment Condition shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be satisfied unless waived by the Borrower and (xi) the Minimum Tranche Amount shall be satisfied unless waived by the Administrative Agent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in its sole discretion. In addition to no event shall there be more than six maturity dates in respect of the Credit Facilities (including any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing or Replacement Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereofLoans). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in herein, no Extension Offers may be made, no Extensions may occur and no Extended Term Loans may be established during the Senior Period.
(b) With respect to all Extensions consummated by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.15Section, and without limiting the generality (i) such Extensions shall not constitute voluntary or applicability mandatory payments or prepayments for purposes of Section 13.1 2.11 and (ii) no Extension Offer is required to be in any Section 2.15(aminimum amount or any minimum increment, provided that (x) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment the Borrower may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above at its election specify as a condition (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional AmendmentMinimum Extension Condition”) to this Agreement consummating any such Extension that a minimum amount (to be determined and specified in the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(arelevant Extension Offer in the Borrower’s sole discretion and may be waived by the Borrower) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents Term B Loans of any or all applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment tranches be tendered and (2y) consents applicable to holders no tranche of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by in an amount equal to of less than $50,000,000 (the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted “Minimum Tranche Amount”), unless such Minimum Tranche Amount is waived by such Lender on such datethe Administrative Agent. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, fees or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans on such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension AmendmentOffer) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment sectionincluding Sections 2.11 and 2.18) or any other Credit Loan Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension Extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a)Section.
(vic) In the event that No consent of any Lender or the Administrative Agent determinesshall be required to effectuate any Extension, and other than the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation consent of each Lender agreeing to such Extension with respect to one or more of its Term Loans. All Extended Term Loans of and all obligations in respect thereof shall be Obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents that are secured by the Collateral on a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in pari passu basis with all other applicable Obligations under this Agreement and the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then other Loan Documents. The Lenders hereby irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, Agent to enter into an amendment amendments to this Agreement and the other Credit Loan Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following with the effective date Borrower as may be necessary in order to establish new tranches or sub-tranches in respect of Term Loans so extended and such technical amendments as may be necessary or appropriate in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower in connection with the establishment of such Extension Amendmentnew tranches or sub-tranches, in each case on terms consistent with this Section. Without limiting the foregoing, in connection with any Extensions the respective Loan Parties shall (at their expense) amend (and the Administrative Agent is hereby directed to amend) any Mortgage that has a maturity date prior to the then latest maturity date so that such maturity date is extended to the then latest maturity date (or such later date as may be advised by local counsel to the Administrative Agent).
(d) In connection with any Extension, the Borrower shall provide the Administrative Agent at least five Business Days’ (or such shorter period as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent) prior written notice thereof, and shall agree to such procedures (including regarding timing, rounding and other adjustments and to ensure reasonable administrative management of the credit facilities hereunder after such Extension), if any, as the case may bebe established by, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially convertedor acceptable to, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required in each case acting reasonably to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate accomplish the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi)Section.
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Horizon Global Corp), Credit Agreement (Horizon Global Corp)
Extensions. (i) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Term Loans of any Class (an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Term Loan Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuanceDate; provided, however, that (1) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii2.15(a)(v)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but but, except as otherwise permitted by this Agreement, not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the First Lien Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and ), (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereofthereof and (5) the Extension Amendment may provide for other covenants and terms that apply solely to any period after the Latest Term Loan Maturity Date, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans of any Extension Series shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(vii) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Revolving Credit Commitments of any Class, each existing at the time of such request (each, an “Existing Revolving Credit Commitment” and any related Revolving Credit Loans thereunder, “Existing Revolving Credit Loans”; each Existing Revolving Credit Commitment and related Existing Revolving Credit Loans together being referred to as an “Existing Revolving Credit Class”) be converted to extend the termination date thereof and the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of Existing Revolving Credit Loans related to such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (any such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments which have been so extended, “Extended Revolving Credit Commitments” and any related Revolving Credit Loans, “Extended Revolving Credit Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15(a). In order to establish any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Class of Existing Revolving Credit Commitments which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Revolving Credit Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments to be established, which, shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Revolving Credit Commitments, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (the “Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment”) unless (x) the Lenders providing Existing Revolving Credit Loans receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date of any Revolving Credit Commitments then outstanding under this Agreement, in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment; provided, however, that (w) all or any of the final maturity dates of such Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be delayed to later dates than the final maturity dates of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments, (x) (A) the interest rates, interest margins, rate floors, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discount and premiums with respect to the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be higher or lower than the interest margins rate floors, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discount and premiums for the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments and/or (B) additional fees and premiums may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Revolving Credit Commitments in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), (y) the commitment fee rate with respect to the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be higher or lower than the commitment fee rate for the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment and (z) unless otherwise permitted hereby, the amount of the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and the Lenders hereby consent principal amount of the Extended Revolving Credit Loans shall not exceed the amount of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments being extended and the principal amount of the related Existing Revolving Credit Loans being extended, respectively, and provided further that, notwithstanding anything to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by contrary in this Section 2.15(a) or otherwise, (including, for 1) the avoidance borrowing and repayment (other than in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of doubt, payment commitments) of any interest, fees, or premium in respect of the Extended Revolving Credit Loans under any Extended Term Loans Revolving Credit Commitments shall be made on such terms as a pro rata basis with any borrowings and repayments of the Specified Existing and each other Class of Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (the mechanics for which may be implemented through the applicable Extension Amendment and may include technical changes related to the borrowing and repayment procedures of the applicable Credit Facility) and (2) assignments and participations of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and Extended Revolving Credit Loans shall be governed by the same assignment and participation provisions applicable to Revolving Credit Commitments and the Revolving Credit Loans related to such Commitments set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment) and hereby waive the requirements Section 13.6. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Revolving Credit Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments of any provision Existing Revolving Credit Class converted into Extended Revolving Credit Loans or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to any Revolving Credit Loan Extension Request. Any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or Extension Series shall constitute a separate Class of revolving credit commitments from the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments and from any other Existing Revolving Credit Document Commitments; provided that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In Extended Revolving Credit Commitments converted from an Existing Revolving Credit Class may, to the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Revolving Credit Commitments other than the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Existing Revolving Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendment, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into Class from which such other Term Loans Extended Revolving Credit Commitments were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi).
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Vistra Energy Corp), Credit Agreement (Energy Future Competitive Holdings Co LLC)
Extensions. (i) The Borrower may at any time time, and from time to time time, request that all or a portion of the Term Loans of any Class (an the “Existing Term Loan ClassLoans”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Existing Loans (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.152.17 (and such request shall be made to all Lenders holding Loans of such Class). In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally to all such LendersLoans) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms (and principal amount) of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive identical to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Existing Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless from which they are to be converted except (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, that (1) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and any or all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of the aggregate principal amount of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class Loans (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or 2.07, in the Extension Incremental Amendment or Refinancing Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class Loans from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)), 2.17(b) below) and (2)(Ay) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by (A) the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) Applicable Rate with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors Applicable Rate for the Term Existing Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments fees may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items increased margins contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment; provided that, (3) notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.17, no Extended Term Loans Loan may participate on a pro rata basis, greater be optionally prepaid other than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not prior to the date on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments which all of any the Loans of the Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if from which such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior Loan was converted shall have been repaid in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted hereinfull. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Existing Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans on such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any other Credit Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendment, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi).
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
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Extensions. (i) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Term Loans of any Class (an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, that (1) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitationAgreement, pursuant to one or more offers (1each, an “Extension Offer”) consents applicable made from time to holders of Incremental time by the Borrower to all Lenders holding Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any a like maturity date on which any Existing Term or all Revolving Lenders having Revolving Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance Commitments with paragraph (a) abovea like commitment termination date, in the each case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, on a pro rata basis (based on the aggregate outstanding principal amount of such existing respective Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal or amounts of Revolving Loan Commitments) and on the same terms to each such Lender, the Borrower is hereby permitted to consummate from time to time transactions with individual Lenders that accept the terms contained in any such Extension Offers to extend the maturity date and/or commitment termination of each such Lender’s Term Loans and/or Revolving Loan Commitments, and, subject to the aggregate principal amount terms hereof, otherwise modify the terms of Extended such Term Loans so converted and/or Revolving Loan Commitments pursuant to the terms of the relevant Extension Offer (including by increasing the interest rate and/or fees payable in respect of such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class and/or Revolving Loan Commitments (and related outstandings) and/or modifying the amortization schedule in respect of such Lender’s Term Loans) (each, an “Extension”; and each group of Term Loans from or Revolving Loan Commitments, as applicable, in each case as so extended, as well as the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended original Term Loans converted from an Existing Term and the original Revolving Loan Class mayCommitments (in each case not so extended), to being a separate Class), so long as the extent provided in following terms are satisfied:
(i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated Offer is delivered to the Lenders;
(ii) except as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from to final commitment termination date (which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent determined by the Borrower and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans on such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension AmendmentOffer, subject to acceptance by the Extended Revolving Lenders), the Revolving Loan Commitment of any Revolving Lender that agrees to an Extension with respect to such Revolving Loan Commitment (an “Extended Revolving Lender”) extended pursuant to an Extension (an “Extended Revolving Loan Commitment” and the Loans thereunder, “Extended Revolving Loans”) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement related outstandings shall be a Revolving Loan Commitment (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any other Credit Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendmentrelated outstandings, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall ) with the same terms (or terms not less favorable to existing Revolving Lenders) as the original Revolving Loan Commitments (and related outstandings); provided that (1) the borrowing and payments (except for (A) provide for the conversion payments of interest and/or fees at different rates on Extended Revolving Loan Commitments (and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such errorrelated outstandings), (B) be subject to repayments required upon the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions commitment termination date of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness non-extended Class of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), Revolving Loan Commitments and (C) effect such repayment made in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of commitments) of Revolving Loans with respect to Extended Revolving Loan Commitments after the applicable Extension date shall be made on a pro rata basis with all other amendments Revolving Loan Commitments, (2) subject to Section 10.1(b), all Swing Loans and Letters of the type Credit shall be participated on a pro rata basis by all Lenders with Revolving Loan Commitments (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changesincluding Extended Revolving Loan Commitments) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi).
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(atheir percentage of the Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitments, (3) the permanent repayment of Revolving Loans with respect to, and termination of, Extended Revolving Loan Commitments after the applicable Extension date shall constitute be made on a voluntary or mandatory payment or pro rata basis with all other Revolving Loan Commitments, except that the Borrower shall be permitted to repay permanently and terminate commitments of any such Class on a better than pro rata basis as compared to any other Class with a later commitment termination date than such Class, (4) assignments and participations of Extended Revolving Loan Commitments and related Revolving Loans shall be governed by the same assignment and participation provisions applicable to the other Classes of Revolving Loan Commitments and Revolving Loans and (5) at no time shall there be Revolving Loan Commitments hereunder (including Extended Revolving Loan Commitments and any original Revolving Loan Commitments) which have more than two (2) different maturity dates;
(iii) except as to interest rates, fees, amortization, final maturity date, premium, required prepayment for purposes dates and participation in prepayments (which shall, subject to immediately succeeding clauses (iv), (v) and (vi), be determined by the Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer, subject to acceptance by the Extending Term Lenders), the Term Loans of this Agreement.any Term Lender that agrees to an Extension (such commitment, an “Extended Term Loan Commitment”) with respect to such Term Loans owed to it (an “Extending Term Lender”) extended pursuant to any
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Extensions. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, pursuant to one or more offers (ieach, an “Extension Offer”) The Borrower may at any time and made from time to time request by the Borrower to all Lenders holding Term Loans of the same class (i.e., having a like maturity date and constituting Term Loans or Incremental Term Loans) or all Revolving Lenders having Revolving Commitments with a like commitment termination date, in each case on a pro rata basis (based on the aggregate outstanding principal amount of such respective Term Loans or amounts of Revolving Commitments) and on the same terms to each such Lender, the Borrower is hereby permitted to consummate from time to time transactions with individual Lenders that accept the terms contained in any such Extension Offers to extend the maturity date and/or commitment termination of each such Lender’s Term Loans of such class and/or Revolving Commitments, and, subject to the terms hereof, otherwise modify the terms of such Term Loans and/or Revolving Commitments pursuant to the terms of the relevant Extension Offer (including by increasing the interest rate and/or fees payable in respect of such Term Loans and/or Revolving Commitments (and related outstandings) and/or modifying the amortization schedule in respect of such Lender’s Term Loans) (each, an “Extension”; and each group of Term Loans or Revolving Commitments, as applicable, in each case as so extended, as well as the original Term Loans and the original Revolving Commitments (in each case not so extended), being a separate tranche), so long as the following terms are satisfied:
(i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time the applicable Extension Offer is delivered to the Lenders;
(ii) except as to final commitment termination date (which shall be determined by the Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer, subject to acceptance by the Extended Revolving Lenders), the Revolving Commitment of any Revolving Lender that agrees to an Extension with respect to such Revolving Commitment (an “Extended Revolving Lender”) extended pursuant to an Extension (an “Extended Revolving Commitment”) and the related outstandings shall be a Revolving Commitment (or related outstandings, as the case may be) with the same terms (or terms not less favorable to existing Revolving Lenders) as the original Revolving Commitments (and related outstandings); provided that
(1) the borrowing and payments (except for (A) payments of interest and/or fees at different rates on Extended Revolving Commitments (and related outstandings), (B) repayments required upon the commitment termination date of the non-extended tranche of Revolving Commitments and (C) repayment made in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of commitments) of Revolving Loans with respect to Extended Revolving Commitments after the applicable Extension date shall be made on a pro rata basis with all or other Revolving Commitments, (2) subject to Section 11.12, all Swing Line Loans and Letters of Credit shall be participated on a portion pro rata basis by all Lenders with Revolving Commitments (including Extended Revolving Commitments) in accordance with their percentage of Revolving Commitments, (3) the permanent repayment of Revolving Loans with respect to, and termination of, Extended Revolving Commitments after the applicable Extension date shall be made on a pro rata basis with all other Revolving Commitments, except that the Borrower shall be permitted to repay permanently and terminate commitments of any such tranche on a greater than pro rata basis as compared to any other tranche with a later commitment termination date than such tranche, (4) assignments and participations of Extended Revolving Commitments and related Revolving Loans shall be governed by the same assignment and participation provisions applicable to the other tranches of Revolving Commitments and Revolving Loans and (5) at no time shall there be Revolving Commitments hereunder (including Extended Revolving Commitments and any original Revolving Commitments) which have more than two (2) different maturity dates;
(iii) except as to interest rates, fees, amortization, final maturity date, premium, required prepayment dates and participation in prepayments (which shall, subject to immediately succeeding clauses (iv), (v) and (vi), be determined by the Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer, subject to acceptance by the Extending Term Lenders), the Term Loans of any Class Term Lender that agrees to an Extension (such commitment, an “Extended Term Loan Commitment”) with respect to such Term Loans owed to it (an “Existing Extending Term Loan ClassLender”) be converted extended pursuant to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans Extension (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and shall have the same terms as the tranche of Term Loans subject to provide such Extension Offer (except for covenants or other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order provisions contained therein applicable only to establish periods after the then Latest Maturity Date);
(iv) the final maturity date of any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request Loans shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, no earlier than the terms Latest Maturity Date of the Term Loans of extended thereby and the Existing Term Loan Class unless (xamortization schedule applicable to Loans pursuant to Section 2.8(a) for periods prior to the Lenders original maturity date of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or shall not be increased;
(y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, that (1v) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or Weighted Average Life to Maturity of any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may shall be delayed to later dates no shorter than the scheduled amortization of principal Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class extended thereby;
(with vi) any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class with non-extended tranches of Term Loans in any voluntary or mandatory prepayments hereunder, in each case as specified in the respective Extension Offer; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(iivii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that if the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based (calculated on the amount of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate outstanding principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans on such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any other Credit Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendment, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially convertedRevolving Commitments, as the case may be, in respect of which Term Lenders or Revolving Lenders, as applicable, shall have accepted the relevant Extension Offer shall exceed the maximum aggregate principal amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments Revolving Commitments, as the case may be, offered to be extended by the Borrower pursuant to such Extension Offer, then the Term Loans and/or Revolving Loans of such Term Lenders or Revolving Lenders, as applicable, shall be extended ratably up to such maximum amount based on the respective principal or commitment amounts with respect to which it was entitled under such Term Lenders and/or Revolving Lenders, as the terms of case may be, have accepted such Extension AmendmentOffer. In connection with any Extension, in the absence of Borrower shall provide the Administrative Agent at least five (5) Business Days (or such error, (B) shorter period as may be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as agreed by the Administrative Agent) prior written notice thereof, the Borrower and shall agree to such Lender may agree procedures (including conditions regarding timing, rounding and other adjustments and to ensure reasonable administrative management of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)credit facilities hereunder after such Extension), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described if any, as may be established by, or acceptable to, Administrative Agent, in Section 2.15(a) each case acting reasonably to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate accomplish the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi)2.21.
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
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Extensions. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, pursuant to one or more offers (ieach, an “Extension Offer”) The Borrower may at any time and made from time to time request that all or a portion of by the Term Loans of any Class (an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect Parent Borrower to all Lenders holding the Initial Term A Loans with a like maturity date, the Initial Term B Loans with a like maturity date or all Lenders holding any particular class of Existing Revolving Loan Commitments with a portion like commitment termination date, in each case, on a pro rata basis in respect of any such class of Loans or Commitments with a like maturity date (based on the aggregate outstanding principal amount of such respective Term Loans (or amounts of Existing Revolving Loan Commitments) and on the same terms to each such Lender, the Parent Borrower is hereby permitted to consummate from time to time transactions with individual Lenders that accept the terms contained in any such Extension Offers to extend the maturity date and/or commitment termination date of each such Lender’s Term Loans of the class being extended and/or Existing Revolving Loan Commitments, and, subject to the terms hereof, otherwise modify the terms of such Term Loans of the class being extended and/or Existing Revolving Loan Commitments pursuant to the terms of the relevant Extension Offer (including by increasing the interest rate, OID, fees and/or call protection/premiums payable in respect of such Term Loans of the class being extended and/or Existing Revolving Loan Commitments (and related outstandings) and/or modifying the amortization schedule in respect of such Xxxxxx’s Term Loans of the class being extended) (each, an “Extension”; and each group of Term Loans of the class being extended or Existing Revolving Loan Commitments, as applicable, in each case as so extended, as well as the original Term Loans of the class being extended and the original Existing Revolving Loan Commitments (in each case not so extended), being a separate tranche), so long as the following terms are satisfied:
(i) except (x) with respect to final commitment termination dates, interest rate margins, rate floors, fees, premiums and funding discounts (which have been so convertedshall be determined by the Parent Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer, subject to acceptance by the Extended Revolving Lenders), (y) with respect to covenants and other provisions applicable only to periods after the then Latest Maturity Date or (z) to the extent that the Loan Documents are amended by the Agent and the Parent Borrower (which amendment shall not require the consent of any Lender or L/C Issuer) to incorporate such more restrictive provisions for the benefit of any Lender that does not agree to the applicable Extension Offer with respect to its Specified Existing Revolving Loan Commitments, the applicable Existing Revolving Loan Commitment (the “Specified Existing Revolving Loan Commitments”) of any Lender that agrees to an Extension with respect to such Specified Existing Revolving Loan Commitments (an “Extended Revolving Lender”) extended pursuant to an Extension (an “Extended Revolving Loan Commitment” and the Loans thereunder, “Extended Term Revolving Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower related outstandings shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market have terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower)conditions, when taken as a whole, that are determined by the Parent Borrower to not be materially more restrictive on the Parent Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries than the terms of the Specified Existing Revolving Loan Commitments (and related outstandings); provided that (1) the borrowing and payments (except for (A) payments of interest and/or fees at different rates on Extended Revolving Loan Commitments (and related outstandings), (B) repayments required upon the commitment termination date of the non-extended tranche of the Specified Existing Revolving Loan Commitments and (C) repayment made in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of commitments) of Extended Revolving Loans in respect of any class of Extended Revolving Loan Commitments after the applicable Extension date shall be made on a pro rata basis with the Existing Revolving Loans in respect of the Specified Existing Revolving Loan Commitments, (2) subject to Section 9.1(a)(vi), Lenders with Extended Revolving Loan Commitments shall participate in all Swing Loans and Letters of Credit on a pro rata basis with the Lenders with Specified Existing Revolving Loan Commitments in accordance with their percentage of the aggregate amount of Extended Revolving Loan Commitments and Specified Existing Revolving Loan Commitments, (3) the permanent repayment of any Extended Revolving Loans with respect to, and termination of, Extended Revolving Loan Commitments after the applicable Extension date shall be made on a pro rata basis with all other Existing Revolving Loan Commitments at the time of such permanent repayment and termination of commitments, except that the Parent Borrower shall be permitted to repay permanently and terminate commitments of any such tranche on a better than pro rata basis as compared to any other tranche with a later commitment termination date than such tranche and (4) assignments and participations of Extended Revolving Loan Commitments and related Extended Revolving Loans shall be governed by the assignment and participation provisions set forth in Section 9.9;
(ii) except (x) with respect to interest rates, rate floors, funding discounts, fees, amortization, final maturity dates, premium, required prepayment dates and participation in prepayments (which shall, subject to succeeding clauses (iv), (v) and (vi), be determined by the Parent Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer, subject to acceptance by the Extending Term Lenders), (y) with respect to covenants and other provisions applicable only to periods after the then Latest Maturity Date or (z) to the extent that the Loan Documents are amended by the Agent and the Parent Borrower (which amendment shall not require the consent of any Lender or L/C Issuer) to incorporate such more restrictive provisions for the benefit of the existing Lenders, the Term Loans of the class being extended of any Term Lender that agrees to an Extension (such commitment, an “Extended Term Loan Commitment”) with respect to such Term Loans owed to it (an “Extending Term Lender”) extended pursuant to any Extension (“Extended Term Loans”) shall have terms and conditions, when taken as a whole, that are determined by the Parent Borrower to not be materially more restrictive on the Parent Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries than the terms of the class of Term Loans subject to such Extension Offer;
(iii) the final maturity date of any Extended Term Loans shall be no earlier than the Latest Maturity Date of the Term Loans of the Existing class extended thereby and the amortization schedule applicable to the Extended Term Loan Class unless (x) Loans for periods prior to the Lenders original maturity date of the Term Loans of such the class extended thereby shall not be increased from the amortization schedule applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive thereto prior to the benefit effectiveness of such more restrictive terms or the applicable Extension;
(y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, that (1iv) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or Weighted Average Life to Maturity of any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may shall be delayed to later dates no shorter than the scheduled amortization of principal then applicable Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class the class extended thereby;
(with v) any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than pro rata basis) with non-extended tranches of Term Loans in any mandatory prepayments of any Class hereunder, in each case as specified in the respective Extension Offer; and
(vi) if the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with (calculated on the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the outstanding principal amount thereof) and/or Existing Revolving Loan Commitments, as the case may be, in respect of which Lenders shall have accepted the Extended Term Loans relevant Extension Offer shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that the maximum aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class class or Existing Term Revolving Loan Classes subject Commitments, as the case may be, offered to be extended by the Parent Borrower pursuant to such Extension Elections exceeds Offer, then the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term and/or Existing Revolving Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections such Lenders shall be converted extended ratably up to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis such maximum amount based on the amount of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders respective principal or commitment amounts with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed which such Lenders have accepted such Extension Offer. With respect to all Extensions consummated by the Credit PartiesParent Borrower pursuant to this Section 1.14, (i) such Extensions shall not constitute voluntary or mandatory payments or prepayments for purposes of Sections 1.7 or 1.8 and (ii) no Extension Offer is required to be in any minimum amount or any minimum increment; provided that the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Parent Borrower may at its election specify as a condition to consummating any such Extension that a minimum amount (to be determined and specified in the effectiveness of any relevant Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, Offer in the Parent Borrower’s sole discretion and which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount Parent Borrower) of Term Loans of the or Existing Term Revolving Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment Commitments (it being understood that the amount as applicable) of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not or all applicable tranches be reduced as a result thereof)tendered. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) 1.14 (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, fees or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans and/or Extended Revolving Loan Commitments on the such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension AmendmentOffer) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any other Credit Loan Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict conflict with any such extension Extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In the event Section. Any Lender that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series does not respond to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted Offer by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable due date shall be deemed to have rejected such Extension AmendmentOffer. No consent of the Agent or any Lender shall be required to effectuate any Extension, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may other than (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without A) the consent of each Lender agreeing to such Extension with respect to one or more of its Term Loans and/or Existing Revolving Loan Commitments (or a portion thereof) and (B) with respect to any other Extension of any Existing Revolving Loan Commitments, the consent of the L/C Issuer and Swingline Lender (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) to the extent such consent of the L/C Issuer or Swingline Lender, as applicable, would be required for an assignment of such Existing Revolving Loan Commitment pursuant to Section 9.9. All Extended Term Loans, Extended Revolving Loan Commitments and all obligations in respect thereof shall be Obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis with all other applicable Obligations. The Lenders hereby irrevocably authorize the Agent to enter into an amendment amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the Parent Borrower (on behalf of all Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”Parties) within 15 days following as may be necessary or appropriate in order to establish new tranches or sub-tranches in respect of any Existing Revolving Loan Commitments or Term Loans so extended and such technical amendments as may be necessary or appropriate in the effective date reasonable opinion of the Agent and the Parent Borrower in connection with the establishment of such Extension Amendmentnew tranches or sub-tranches, as in each case on terms consistent with this Section 1.14. In addition, if so provided in such amendment and with the case may beconsent of each L/C Issuer (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension conditioned or delayed), participations in Letters of Credit expiring on or after the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or commitment termination date shall be reallocated from Lenders holding non-extended Existing Revolving Loan Commitments to which it was entitled under Lenders holding Extended Revolving Loan Commitments in accordance with the terms of such Extension Amendmentamendment; provided, however, that such participation interests shall, upon receipt thereof by the relevant Lenders holding Existing Revolving Loan Commitments, be deemed to be participation interests in respect of such Existing Revolving Loan Commitments and the terms of such participation interests shall be adjusted accordingly. Without limiting the foregoing, in connection with any Extensions the absence of such error, applicable Credit Parties shall (Bat their expense) be subject amend (and the Agent is hereby directed by the Lenders to amend) any Mortgage that has a maturity date prior to the satisfaction of maturity date specified by such conditions as Extension, so that such maturity date referenced therein is extended to the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions later of the type required maturity date specified by such Extension (or such later date as may be advised by local counsel to be satisfied for the Agent). The Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)each such amendment. In connection with any Extension, the Parent Borrower shall provide Agent at least five (5) Business Days (or such shorter period as may be agreed by Agent) prior written notice thereof, and shall agree to such procedures (including regarding timing, rounding and other adjustments and to ensure reasonable administrative management of the credit facilities hereunder after such Extension), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described if any, as may be established by, or acceptable to, Agent, in Section 2.15(a) each case acting reasonably to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate accomplish the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi)1.14. This Section 1.14 shall supersede any provisions of Section 9.1 or Section 9.11 to the contrary.
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
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Extensions. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, pursuant to one or more offers (ieach, an “Extension Offer”) The Borrower may at any time and made from time to time request by Borrower Representative to all Lenders holding Term Loans with a like maturity date or all Revolving Lenders having Revolving Loan Commitments with a like commitment termination date, in each case on a pro rata basis (based on the aggregate outstanding principal amount of such respective Term Loans or amounts of Revolving Loan Commitments) and on the same terms to each such Lender, the Borrowers are hereby permitted to consummate from time to time transactions with individual Lenders that accept the terms contained in any such Extension Offers to extend the maturity date and/or commitment termination of each such Lender’s Term Loans and/or Revolving Loan Commitments, and, subject to the terms hereof, otherwise modify the terms of such Term Loans and/or Revolving Loan Commitments pursuant to the terms of the relevant Extension Offer (including by increasing the interest rate and/or fees payable in respect of such Term Loans and/or Revolving Loan Commitments (and related outstandings) and/or modifying the amortization schedule in respect of such Lender’s Term Loans) (each, an “Extension”; and each group of Term Loans or Revolving Loan Commitments, as applicable, in each case as so extended, as well as the original Term Loans and the original Revolving Loan Commitments (in each case not so extended), being a separate Class), so long as the following terms are satisfied:
(i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time the applicable Extension Offer is delivered to the Lenders;
(ii) except as to final commitment termination date (which shall be determined by the Borrowers and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer, subject to acceptance by the Extended Revolving Lenders), the Revolving Loan Commitment of any Revolving Lender that agrees to an Extension with respect to such Revolving Loan Commitment (an “Extended Revolving Lender”) extended pursuant to an Extension (an “Extended Revolving Loan Commitment” and the Loans thereunder, “Extended Revolving Loans”) and the related outstandings shall be a Revolving Loan Commitment (or related outstandings, as the case may be) with the same terms (or terms not less favorable to existing Revolving Lenders) as the original Revolving Loan Commitments (and related outstandings); provided that (1) the borrowing and payments (except for (A) payments of interest and/or fees at different rates on Extended Revolving Loan Commitments (and related outstandings), (B) repayments required upon the commitment termination date of the non-extended Class of Revolving Loan Commitments and (C) repayment made in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of commitments) of Revolving Loans with respect to Extended Revolving Loan Commitments after the applicable Extension date shall be made on a pro rata basis with all or other Revolving Loan Commitments, (2) subject to Section 10.1(b), all Swing Loans and Letters of Credit shall be participated on a portion pro rata basis by all Lenders with Revolving Loan Commitments (including Extended Revolving Loan Commitments) in accordance with their percentage of the Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitments, (3) the permanent repayment of Revolving Loans with respect to, and termination of, Extended Revolving Loan Commitments after the applicable Extension date shall be made on a pro rata basis with all other Revolving Loan Commitments, except that the Borrowers shall be permitted to repay permanently and terminate commitments of any such Class on a better than pro rata basis as compared to any other Class with a later commitment termination date than such Class, (4) assignments and participations of Extended Revolving Loan Commitments and related Revolving Loans shall be governed by the same assignment and participation provisions applicable to the other Classes of Revolving Loan Commitments and Revolving Loans and (5) at no time shall there be Revolving Loan Commitments hereunder (including Extended Revolving Loan Commitments and any original Revolving Loan Commitments) which have more than two (2) different maturity dates;
(iii) except as to interest rates, fees, amortization, final maturity date, premium, required prepayment dates and participation in prepayments (which shall, subject to immediately succeeding clauses (iv), (v) and (vi), be determined by the Borrowers and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer, subject to acceptance by the Extending Term Lenders), the Term Loans of any Class Term Lender that agrees to an Extension (such commitment, an “Extended Term Loan Commitment”) with respect to such Term Loans owed to it (an “Existing Extending Term Loan ClassLender”) be converted extended pursuant to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans Extension (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and shall have the same terms as the Class of Term Loans subject to provide such Extension Offer (except for covenants or other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order provisions contained therein applicable only to establish periods after the then Latest Maturity Date);
(iv) the final maturity date of any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request Loans shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, no earlier than the terms Latest Maturity Date of the Term Loans of extended thereby and the Existing Term Loan Class unless (xamortization schedule applicable to Loans pursuant to Section 2.8(a) for periods prior to the Lenders original maturity date of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or shall not be increased;
(y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, that (1v) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or Weighted Average Life to Maturity of any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may shall be delayed to later dates no shorter than the scheduled amortization of principal Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class extended thereby;
(with vi) any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class with non-extended Classes of Term Loans in any voluntary or mandatory prepayments hereunder, in each case as specified in the respective Extension Offer; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(iivii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that if the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based (calculated on the outstanding principal amount thereof) and/or Revolving Loan Commitments, as the case may be, in respect of which Term Lenders or Revolving Lenders, as applicable, shall have accepted the relevant Extension Offer shall exceed the maximum aggregate principal amount of Term Loans included in each or Revolving Loan Commitments, as the case may be, offered to be extended by Borrower Representative pursuant to such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Offer, then the Term Loans and/or Revolving Loans of such Term Lenders or Revolving Lenders, as applicable, shall be established pursuant extended ratably up to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to such maximum amount based on the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders respective principal or commitment amounts with respect to which such Term Lenders and/or Revolving Lenders, as the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed case may be, have accepted such Extension Offer. With respect to all Extensions consummated by the Credit PartiesBorrowers pursuant to this Section, (i) such Extensions shall not constitute voluntary or mandatory payments or prepayments for purposes of Sections 2.7 or 2.8 and (ii) no Extension Offer is required to be in any minimum amount or any minimum increment; provided that Borrower Representative may at its election specify as a condition to consummating any such Extension that a minimum amount (to be determined and specified in the Administrative Agent relevant Extension Offer in Borrower Representative’s sole discretion and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount Representative) of Term Loans of the Existing Term or Revolving Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment Commitments (it being understood that the amount as applicable) of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not or all applicable Classes be reduced as a result thereof)tendered. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, fees or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans and/or Extended Revolving Loan Commitments on the such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension AmendmentOffer) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any other Credit Loan Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict conflict with any such extension Extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In the event Section. Any Lender that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series does not respond to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted Offer by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable due date shall be deemed to have rejected such Extension AmendmentOffer. No consent of Agent or any Lender shall be required to effectuate any Extension, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may other than (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without A) the consent of each Lender agreeing to such Extension with respect to one or more of its Term Loans and/or Revolving Loan Commitments (or a portion thereof) and (B) with respect to any Extension of the Revolving Loan Commitments, the consent of the L/C Issuer and Swingline Lender. All Extended Term Loans, Extended Revolving Loan Commitments and all obligations in respect thereof shall be Obligations under this Agreement and the other Lender, Loan Documents and secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis with all other applicable Obligations. The Lenders hereby irrevocably authorize Agent to enter into an amendment amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with Borrower Representative (on behalf of all Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”Parties) within 15 days following as may be necessary in order to establish new Classes or sub-Classes in respect of Revolving Loan Commitments or Term Loans so extended and such technical amendments as may be necessary in the effective date reasonable opinion of Agent and Borrower Representative in connection with the establishment of such Extension Amendmentnew Classes or sub-Classes, as in each case on terms consistent with this Section. In addition, if so provided in such amendment and with the case may beconsent of each L/C Issuer, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension participations in Letters of Credit expiring on or after the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or commitment termination date shall be re-allocated from Lenders holding non-extended Revolving Loan Commitments to which it was entitled under Lenders holding Extended Revolving Loan Commitments in accordance with the terms of such Extension Amendmentamendment; provided, however, that such participation interests shall, upon receipt thereof by the relevant Lenders holding Revolving Loan Commitments, be deemed to be participation interests in respect of such Revolving Loan Commitments and the terms of such participation interests shall be adjusted accordingly. Without limiting the foregoing, in connection with any Extensions the absence of such error, applicable Credit Parties shall (Bat their expense) be subject amend (and Agent is hereby directed by the Lenders to amend) any Mortgage that has a maturity date prior to the satisfaction of Latest Maturity Date, so that such conditions as maturity date referenced therein is extended to the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions later of the type required then Latest Maturity Date (or such later date as may be advised by local counsel to be satisfied for Agent). Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)each such amendment. In connection with any Extension, Borrower Representative shall provide Agent at least five (5) Business Days (or such shorter period as may be agreed by Agent) prior written notice thereof, and shall agree to such procedures (including regarding timing, rounding and other adjustments and to ensure reasonable administrative management of the credit facilities hereunder after such Extension), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described if any, as may be established by, or acceptable to, Agent, in Section 2.15(a) each case acting reasonably to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate accomplish the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi10.1(f).
(vii. This Section 10.1(f) No conversion shall supersede any provisions of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary 10.1 or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this AgreementSection 10.11 to the contrary.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Cryolife Inc)
Extensions. (i) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Term Loans of any Class (an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Term Loan Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuanceDate; provided, however, that (1) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii2.15(a)(v)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but but, except as otherwise permitted by this Agreement, not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the First Lien Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and ), (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans on such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any other Credit Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendment, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi).
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.thereof and
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Vistra Corp.)
Extensions. (ia) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Term Loans of any Class (an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, that (1) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15Agreement, and without limiting the generality pursuant to one or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendmentsmore offers (each, any an “Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional AmendmentOffer”) made from time to this Agreement and time by the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply Parent Borrower to all Lenders of Tranche A Term Loans with a like maturity date or Revolving Commitments with a like maturity date, in each case on a pro rata basis (based on the requirements aggregate outstanding principal amount of Section 2.15(athe respective Tranche A Term Loans or Revolving Commitments with a like maturity date, as the case may be) and do not become effective prior on the same terms to each such Lender, the Parent Borrower is hereby permitted to consummate from time to time transactions with individual Lenders that accept the terms contained in such Extension Offers to extend the maturity date of each such Lender’s Tranche A Term Loans and/or Revolving Commitments and otherwise modify the terms of such Tranche A Term Loans and/or Revolving Commitments pursuant to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to terms of the relevant Extension Offer (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders by increasing the interest rate or fees payable in respect of Incremental such Tranche A Term Loans provided for and/or Revolving Commitments (and related outstandings) and/or modifying the amortization schedule in any Incremental Amendment respect of such Lender’s Tranche A Term Loans) (each, an “Extension,” and (2) consents applicable to holders each group of any Extended Tranche A Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lendersor Revolving Commitments, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) aboveapplicable, in each case as so extended, as well as the case of the existing original Tranche A Term Loans of and the original Revolving Commitments (in each Extending Lendercase not so extended), the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any being a “tranche”; any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class tranche of Term Loans from the Existing tranche of Term Loan Class Loans from which they were converted; provided that , and any Extended Term Loans converted Revolving Commitments shall constitute a separate tranche of Revolving Commitments from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class tranche of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class Revolving Commitments from which such Extended Term Loans they were converted converted), so long as the following terms are satisfied: (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and continuing at the Lenders hereby consent to time the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, or premium offering document in respect of any Extended Term Loans on such terms an Extension Offer is delivered to the Lenders, (ii) except as may to interest rates, fees and final maturity (which shall be determined by the Parent Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment) and hereby waive Offer), the requirements Revolving Commitment of any provision of this Agreement Revolving Lender that agrees to an extension with respect to such Revolving Commitment extended pursuant to an Extension (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any other Credit Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(aan “Extended Revolving Commitment”).
(vi) In the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees related outstandings, shall be a Revolving Commitment (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendmentor related outstandings, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for with the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, same terms as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred original Revolving Commitments (and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, related outstandings); provided that (Bx) be subject to the satisfaction provisions of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower Sections 2.04(d) and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi).
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.2.05
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Extensions. (i) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Term Loans of any Class (an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Term Loan Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuanceDate; provided, however, that (1) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii2.15(a)(v)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans on such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any other Credit Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendment, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi).
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.and/or
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Extensions. (i) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Term Loans of any Class (an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Term Loan Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuanceDate; provided, however, that (1) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii2.15(a)(v)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but but, except as otherwise permitted by this Agreement, not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the First Lien Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and ), (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereofthereof and (5) the Extension Amendment may provide for other covenants and terms that apply solely to any period after the Latest Term Loan Maturity Date, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans of any Extension Series shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased, including any further increase to the amortization amount to achieve fungibility of the Extended Term Loans with respect to such existing Term Loan Class).
(vii) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Revolving Credit Commitments of any Class, each existing at the time of such request (each, an “Existing Revolving Credit Commitment” and any related Revolving Credit Loans thereunder, “Existing Revolving Credit Loans”; each Existing Revolving Credit Commitment and related Existing Revolving Credit Loans together being referred to as an “Existing Revolving Credit Class”) be converted to extend the termination date thereof and the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of Existing Revolving Credit Loans related to such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (any such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments which have been so extended, “Extended Revolving Credit Commitments” and any related Revolving Credit Loans, “Extended Revolving Credit Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15(a). In order to establish any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Class of Existing Revolving Credit Commitments which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Revolving Credit Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments to be established, which, shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Revolving Credit Commitments, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (the “Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment”) unless (x) the Lenders providing Existing Revolving Credit Loans receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date of any Revolving Credit Commitments then outstanding under this Agreement, in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment; provided, however, that (w) all or any of the final maturity dates of such Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be delayed to later dates than the final maturity dates of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments, (x) (A) the interest rates, interest margins, rate floors, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discount and premiums with respect to the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be higher or lower than the interest margins rate floors, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discount and premiums for the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments and/or (B) additional fees and premiums may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Revolving Credit Commitments in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), (y) the commitment fee rate with respect to the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be higher or lower than the commitment fee rate for the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment and (z) unless otherwise permitted hereby, the amount of the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and the Lenders hereby consent principal amount of the Extended Revolving Credit Loans shall not exceed the amount of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments being extended and the principal amount of the related Existing Revolving Credit Loans being extended, respectively, and provided further that, notwithstanding anything to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by contrary in this Section 2.15(a) or otherwise, (including, for 1) the avoidance borrowing and repayment (other than in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of doubt, payment commitments) of any interest, fees, or premium in respect of the Extended Revolving Credit Loans under any Extended Term Loans Revolving Credit Commitments shall be made on such terms as a pro rata basis with any borrowings and repayments of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments and each other Class of Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (the mechanics for which may be implemented through the applicable Extension Amendment and may include technical changes related to the borrowing and repayment procedures of the applicable Credit Facility) and (2) assignments and participations of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and Extended Revolving Credit Loans shall be governed by the same assignment and participation provisions applicable to Revolving Credit Commitments and the Revolving Credit Loans related to such Commitments set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment) and hereby waive the requirements Section 13.6. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Revolving Credit Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments of any provision Existing Revolving Credit Class converted into Extended Revolving Credit Loans or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to any Revolving Credit Loan Extension Request. Any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or Extension Series shall constitute a separate Class of revolving credit commitments from the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments and from any other Existing Revolving Credit Document Commitments; provided that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In Extended Revolving Credit Commitments converted from an Existing Revolving Credit Class may, to the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Revolving Credit Commitments other than the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Existing Revolving Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendment, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into Class from which such other Term Loans Extended Revolving Credit Commitments were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi).
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Vistra Corp.)
Extensions. (i) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Term Loans Revolving Commitments of any Class Class, each existing at the time of such request (each, an “Existing Term Loan Revolving Commitment” and any related Revolving Loans thereunder, “Existing Revolving Loans”; each Existing Revolving Commitment and related Existing Revolving Loans together being referred to as an “Existing Revolving Class”) be converted to extend the termination date thereof and the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of Existing Revolving Loans related to such Term Loans Existing Revolving Commitments (any such Term Loans Existing Revolving Commitments which have been so convertedextended, “Extended Term Revolving Commitments” and any related Revolving Loans, “Extended Revolving Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.152.15(a). In order to establish any Extended Term LoansRevolving Commitments, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Class of Existing Term Loan Class Revolving Commitments which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Revolving Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans Revolving Commitments to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or are reasonably acceptable to the Borrower and Administrative Agent or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan ClassRevolving Commitments, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of such Existing Revolving Commitments (the Term Loans of the “Specified Existing Term Loan Class Revolving Commitment”) unless (x) the Lenders of the Term providing Existing Revolving Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at of any Revolving Commitments then outstanding under this Agreement, in each case, to the time of incurrence or issuanceextent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment; provided, however, that (1w) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments final maturity dates of principal of the such Extended Term Loans Revolving Commitments may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal final maturity dates of the Term Loans of such Specified Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii))Revolving Commitments, (2)(Ax) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and (A) the interest rates, interest margins, rate floors, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts discount and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans Revolving Commitments may be higher or lower than the interest margins rate floors, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discount and floors premiums for the Term Loans of such Specified Existing Term Loan Class Revolving Commitments and/or (B) additional fees, fees and premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans Revolving Commitments in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3y) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis commitment fee rate with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase the Extended Revolving Commitments may be higher or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) lower than the commitment fee rate for the Specified Existing Revolving Commitment and (4z) unless otherwise permitted hereby, the amount of the Extended Term Loans may have call protection Revolving Commitments and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Revolving Loans shall not exceed the amount of the Specified Existing Revolving Commitments being extended and the principal amount of the Term related Existing Revolving Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted hereinextended, respectively, and provided, further, that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15(a) or otherwise, (1) the borrowing and repayment (other than in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of commitments) of the Extended Revolving Loans under any Extended Revolving Commitments shall be made on a pro rata basis with any borrowings and repayments of the Specified Existing Revolving Commitments and each other Class of Existing Revolving Commitments (the mechanics for which may be implemented through the applicable Extension Amendment and may include technical changes related to the borrowing and repayment procedures of the applicable Credit Facility) and (2) assignments and participations of Extended Revolving Commitments and Extended Revolving Loans shall be governed by the same assignment and participation provisions applicable to Revolving Commitments and the Revolving Loans related to such Commitments set forth in Section 13.06. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Revolving Loans or Revolving Commitments of any Existing Term Loan Revolving Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans on such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any other Credit Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendment, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi).
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.Extended
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Talen Energy Corp)
Extensions. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, pursuant to one or more offers (ieach, an “Extension Offer”) The Borrower may at any time and made from time to time request by Borrower to all Lenders holding Term Loans with a like maturity date or all Revolving Lenders having Revolving Loan Commitments with a like commitment termination date, in each case on a pro rata basis (based on the aggregate outstanding principal amount of such respective Term Loans or amounts of Revolving Loan Commitments) and on the same terms to each such Lender, Borrower is hereby permitted to consummate from time to time transactions with individual Lenders that accept the terms contained in any such Extension Offers to extend the maturity date and/or commitment termination of each such Lender’s Term Loans and/or Revolving Loan Commitments, and, subject to the terms hereof, otherwise modify the terms of such Term Loans and/or Revolving Loan Commitments pursuant to the terms of the relevant Extension Offer (including by increasing the interest rate and/or fees payable in respect of such Term Loans and/or Revolving Loan Commitments (and related outstandings) and/or modifying the amortization schedule in respect of such Lender’s Term Loans) (each, an “Extension”; and each group of Term Loans or Revolving Loan Commitments, as applicable, in each case as so extended, as well as the original Term Loans and the original Revolving Loan Commitments (in each case not so extended), being a separate Class), so long as the following terms are satisfied:
(i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time the applicable Extension Offer is delivered to the Lenders;
(ii) except as to final commitment termination date (which shall be determined by Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer, subject to acceptance by the Extended Revolving Lenders), the Revolving Loan Commitment of any Revolving Lender that agrees to an Extension with respect to such Revolving Loan Commitment (an “Extended Revolving Lender”) extended pursuant to an Extension (an “Extended Revolving Loan Commitment” and the Loans thereunder, “Extended Revolving Loans”) and the related outstandings shall be a Revolving Loan Commitment (or related outstandings, as the case may be) with the same terms (or terms not less favorable to existing Revolving Lenders) as the original Revolving Loan Commitments (and related outstandings); provided that
(1) the borrowing and payments (except for (A) payments of interest and/or fees at different rates on Extended Revolving Loan Commitments (and related outstandings), (B) repayments required upon the commitment termination date of the non-extended Class of Revolving Loan Commitments and (C) repayment made in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of commitments) of Revolving Loans with respect to Extended Revolving Loan Commitments after the applicable Extension date shall be made on a pro rata basis with all or other Revolving Loan Commitments, (2) subject to Section 10.1(b), all Swing Loans and Letters of Credit shall be participated on a portion pro rata basis by all Lenders with Revolving Loan Commitments (including Extended Revolving Loan Commitments) in accordance with their percentage of the Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitments, (3) the permanent repayment of Revolving Loans with respect to, and termination of, Extended Revolving Loan Commitments after the applicable Extension date shall be made on a pro rata basis with all other Revolving Loan Commitments, except that Borrower shall be permitted to repay permanently and terminate commitments of any such Class on a better than pro rata basis as compared to any other Class with a later commitment termination date than such Class, (4) assignments and participations of Extended Revolving Loan Commitments and related Revolving Loans shall be governed by the same assignment and participation provisions applicable to the other Classes of Revolving Loan Commitments and Revolving Loans and (5) at no time shall there be Revolving Loan Commitments hereunder (including Extended Revolving Loan Commitments and any original Revolving Loan Commitments) which have more than two (2) different maturity dates;
(iii) except as to interest rates, fees, amortization, final maturity date, premium, required prepayment dates and participation in prepayments (which shall, subject to immediately succeeding clauses (iv), (v) and (vi), be determined by Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer, subject to acceptance by the Extending Term Lenders), the Term Loans of any Class Term Lender that agrees to an Extension (such commitment, an “Extended Term Loan Commitment”) with respect to such Term Loans owed to it (an “Existing Extending Term Loan ClassLender”) be converted extended pursuant to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans Extension (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and shall have the same terms as the Class of Term Loans subject to provide such Extension Offer (except for covenants or other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order provisions contained therein applicable only to establish periods after the then Latest Maturity Date);
(iv) the final maturity date of any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request Loans shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, no earlier than the terms Latest Maturity Date of the Term Loans of extended thereby and the Existing Term Loan Class unless (xamortization schedule applicable to Loans pursuant to Section 2.8(a) for periods prior to the Lenders original maturity date of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or shall not be increased;
(y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, that (1v) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or Weighted Average Life to Maturity of any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may shall be delayed to later dates no shorter than the scheduled amortization of principal Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class extended thereby;
(with vi) any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class with non-extended Classes of Term Loans in any voluntary or mandatory prepayments hereunder, in each case as specified in the respective Extension Offer; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(iivii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that if the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based (calculated on the outstanding principal amount thereof) and/or Revolving Loan Commitments, as the case may be, in respect of which Term Lenders or Revolving Lenders, as applicable, shall have accepted the relevant Extension Offer shall exceed the maximum aggregate principal amount of Term Loans included in each or Revolving Loan Commitments, as the case may be, offered to be extended by Borrower pursuant to such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Offer, then the Term Loans and/or Revolving Loans of such Term Lenders or Revolving Lenders, as applicable, shall be established pursuant extended ratably up to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to such maximum amount based on the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders respective principal or commitment amounts with respect to which such Term Lenders and/or Revolving Lenders, as the Extended Term Loans established therebycase may be, have accepted such Extension Offer. With respect to all Extensions consummated by Borrower pursuant to this Section, (i) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent such Extensions shall not constitute voluntary or mandatory payments or prepayments for purposes of Sections 2.7 or 2.8 and the Extending Lenders. No (ii) no Extension Amendment shall provide for Offer is required to be in any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal minimum amount or any minimum increment; provided that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may at its election specify as a condition to consummating any such Extension that a minimum amount (to be determined and specified in the effectiveness of any relevant Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which Offer in Borrower’s sole discretion and may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount Borrower) of Term Loans of the Existing Term or Revolving Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment Commitments (it being understood that the amount as applicable) of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not or all applicable Classes be reduced as a result thereof)tendered. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, fees or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans and/or Extended Revolving Loan Commitments on the such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension AmendmentOffer) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any other Credit Loan Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict conflict with any such extension Extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In the event Section. Any Lender that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series does not respond to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted Offer by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable due date shall be deemed to have rejected such Extension AmendmentOffer. No consent of Agent or any Lender shall be required to effectuate any Extension, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may other than (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without A) the consent of each Lender agreeing to such Extension with respect to one or more of its Term Loans and/or Revolving Loan Commitments (or a portion thereof) and (B) with respect to any Extension of the Revolving Loan Commitments, the consent of the L/C Issuer and Swing Lender. All Extended Term Loans, Extended Revolving Loan Commitments and all obligations in respect thereof shall be Obligations under this Agreement and the other Lender, Loan Documents and secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis with all other applicable Obligations. The Lenders hereby irrevocably authorize Agent to enter into an amendment amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with Borrower (on behalf of all Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”Parties) within 15 days following as may be necessary in order to establish new Classes or sub-Classes in respect of Revolving Loan Commitments or Term Loans so extended and such technical amendments as may be necessary in the effective date reasonable opinion of Agent and Borrower in connection with the establishment of such Extension Amendmentnew Classes or sub-Classes, as in each case on terms consistent with this Section. In addition, if so provided in such amendment and with the case may beconsent of each L/C Issuer, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension participations in Letters of Credit expiring on or after the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or commitment termination date shall be re-allocated from Lenders holding non-extended Revolving Loan Commitments to which it was entitled under Lenders holding Extended Revolving Loan Commitments in accordance with the terms of such Extension Amendmentamendment; provided, however, that such participation interests shall, upon receipt thereof by the relevant Lenders holding Revolving Loan Commitments, be deemed to be participation interests in respect of such Revolving Loan Commitments and the terms of such participation interests shall be adjusted accordingly. Without limiting the foregoing, in connection with any Extensions the absence of such error, applicable Credit Parties shall (Bat their expense) be subject amend (and Agent is hereby directed by the Lenders to amend) any Mortgage that has a maturity date prior to the satisfaction of Latest Maturity Date, so that such conditions as maturity date referenced therein is extended to the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions later of the type required then Latest Maturity Date (or such later date as may be advised by local counsel to be satisfied for Agent). Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)each such amendment. In connection with any Extension, Borrower shall provide Agent at least five (5) Business Days (or such shorter period as may be agreed by Agent) prior written notice thereof, and shall agree to such procedures (including regarding timing, rounding and other adjustments and to ensure reasonable administrative management of the credit facilities hereunder after such Extension), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described if any, as may be established by, or acceptable to, Agent, in Section 2.15(a) each case acting reasonably to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate accomplish the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi10.1(f).
Section 10.1 (viif) No conversion shall supersede any provisions of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary 10.1 or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this AgreementSection 10.11 to the contrary.
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Samples: Credit Agreement
Extensions. (ia) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Term Loans of any Class (an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, that (1) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15Agreement, and without limiting the generality pursuant to one or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendmentsmore offers (each, any an “Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional AmendmentOffer”) made from time to this Agreement and time by the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply Parent Borrower to all Lenders of Tranche A Term Loans with a like maturity date, Tranche B Term Loans with a like maturity date or Revolving Commitments with a like maturity date, in each case on a pro rata basis (based on the requirements aggregate outstanding principal amount of Section 2.15(athe respective Tranche A Term Loans, Tranche B Term Loans or Revolving Commitments with a like maturity date, as the case may be) and do not become effective prior on the same terms to each such Lender, the Parent Borrower is hereby permitted to consummate from time to time transactions with individual Lenders that accept the terms contained in such Extension Offers to extend the maturity date of each such Lender’s Tranche A Term Loans, Tranche B Term Loans and/or Revolving Commitments and otherwise modify the terms of such Tranche A Term Loans, Tranche B Term Loans and/or Revolving Commitments pursuant to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to terms of the relevant Extension Offer (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders by increasing the interest rate or fees payable in respect of Incremental such Tranche A Term Loans, Tranche B Term Loans provided for and/or Revolving Commitments (and related outstandings) and/or modifying the amortization schedule in any Incremental Amendment respect of such Lender’s Tranche A Term Loans or Tranche B Term Loans) (each, an “Extension”, and each group of Tranche A Term Loans, Tranche B Term Loans or Revolving Commitments, as applicable, in each case as so extended, as well as the original Tranche A Term Loans, Tranche B Term Loans and the original Revolving Commitments (2) consents applicable to holders of in each case not so extended), being a “tranche”; any Extended Tranche A Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of or Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Tranche B Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class tranche of Term Loans from the Existing tranche of Term Loan Class Loans from which they were converted; provided that , and any Extended Term Loans converted Revolving Commitments shall constitute a separate tranche of Revolving Commitments from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class tranche of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class Revolving Commitments from which such Extended Term Loans they were converted converted), so long as the following terms are satisfied: (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and continuing at the Lenders hereby consent to time the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, or premium offering document in respect of any Extended Term Loans on such terms an Extension Offer is delivered to the Lenders, (ii) except as may to interest rates, fees and final maturity (which shall be determined by the Parent Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment) and hereby waive Offer), the requirements Revolving Commitment of any provision of this Agreement Revolving Lender that agrees to an extension with respect to such Revolving Commitment extended pursuant to an Extension (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any other Credit Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(aan “Extended Revolving Commitment”).
(vi) In the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees related outstandings, shall be a Revolving Commitment (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendmentor related outstandings, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for with the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, same terms as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred original Revolving Commitments (and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, related outstandings); provided that (Bx) be subject to the satisfaction provisions of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower Sections 2.04(d) and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi).
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.2.05
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Trimas Corp)
Extensions. (ia) The Borrower may at any time and Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, pursuant to one or more offers (each, an “Extension Offer”) made from time to time request that by the Parent Borrower to all Lenders of Tranche A Term Loans with a like maturity date or Revolving Commitments with a portion like maturity date, in each case on a pro rata basis (based on the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the respective Tranche A Term Loans or Revolving Commitments with a like maturity date, as the case may be) and on the same terms to each such Lender, the Parent Borrower is hereby permitted to consummate from time to time transactions with individual Lenders that accept the terms contained in such Extension Offers to extend the maturity date of each such Lender’s Tranche A Term Loans and/or Revolving Commitments and otherwise modify the terms of such Tranche A Term Loans and/or Revolving Commitments pursuant to the terms of the relevant Extension Offer (including, without limitation, by increasing the interest rate or fees payable in respect of such Tranche A Term Loans and/or Revolving Commitments (and related outstandings) and/or modifying the amortization schedule in respect of such Lender’s Tranche A Term Loans) (each, an “Extension,” and each group of Tranche A Term Loans or Revolving Commitments, as applicable, in each case as so extended, as well as the original Tranche A Term Loans and the original Revolving Commitments (in each case not so extended), being a “tranche”; any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate tranche of Term Loans from the tranche of Term Loans from which they were converted, and any Extended Revolving Commitments shall constitute a separate tranche of Revolving Commitments from the tranche of Revolving Commitments from which they were converted), so long as the following terms are satisfied: (i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time the offering document in respect of an Extension Offer is delivered to the Lenders, (ii) except as to interest rates, fees and final maturity (which shall be determined by the Parent Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer), the Revolving Commitment of any Revolving Lender that agrees to an extension with respect to such Revolving Commitment extended pursuant to an Extension (an “Extended Revolving Commitment”), and the related outstandings, shall be a Revolving Commitment (or related outstandings, as the case may be) with the same terms as the original Revolving Commitments (and related outstandings); provided that (x) subject to the provisions of Sections 2.04(d) and 2.05(k) to the extent dealing with Swingline Loans and Letters of Credit which mature or expire after a maturity date when there exist Extended Revolving Commitments with a longer maturity date, all Swingline Loans and Letters of Credit shall be participated in on a pro rata basis by all Lenders with Revolving Commitments in accordance with their Applicable Percentage of the Revolving Commitments (and except as provided in Sections 2.04(d) and 2.05(k), without giving effect to changes thereto on an earlier maturity date with respect to Swingline Loans and Letters of Credit theretofore incurred or issued) and all borrowings under Revolving Commitments and repayments thereunder shall be made on a pro rata basis (except for (A) payments of interest and fees at different rates on Extended Revolving Commitments (and related outstandings) and (B) repayments required upon the scheduled maturity date of the non-Extended Revolving Commitments) and (y) at no time shall there be Revolving Commitments hereunder (including Extended Revolving Commitments and any original Revolving Commitments) which have more than three different maturity dates, (iii) except as to interest rates, fees, amortization, final maturity date, premium, required prepayment dates and participation in prepayments (which shall, subject to immediately succeeding clauses (iv), (v), and (vi), be determined between the Parent Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer), the Tranche A Term Loans of any Class (Tranche A Term Lender that agrees to an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal extension with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Tranche A Term Loans extended pursuant to any Extension (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, the “Extended Term Loans”) and shall have the same terms as the tranche of Tranche A Term Loans subject to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order to establish such Extension Offer, (iv) the final maturity date of any Extended Term Loans, Loans shall be no earlier than the Borrower shall provide a notice maturity date of the Tranche A Term Loans from which they were converted and the amortization schedule applicable to Tranche A Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.10(a) for periods prior to the Administrative Agent Tranche A Maturity Date may not be increased, (who shall provide a copy v) the weighted average life of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the any Extended Term Loans to shall be established, which shall either, at no shorter than the option remaining weighted average life of the BorrowerTranche A Term Loans extended thereby, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (yvi) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, that (1) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than a pro rata basis) in any voluntary or mandatory repayments or prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Tranche A Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by for repayments required upon the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the principal amount scheduled maturity date of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into non-Extended Term Loans. In ), in each case as specified in the event that respective Extension Offer, (vii) if the aggregate principal amount of Tranche A Term Loans (calculated on the face amount thereof) in respect of which Tranche A Term Lenders shall have accepted the relevant Extension Offer shall exceed the maximum aggregate principal amount of Tranche A Term Loans offered to be extended by the Parent Borrower pursuant to such Extension Offer, then the Tranche A Term Loans of the Existing such Tranche A Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections Lenders shall be converted extended ratably up to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis such maximum amount based on the respective principal amounts (but not to exceed actual holdings of record) with respect to which such Tranche A Term Lenders have accepted such Extension Offer, (viii) if the aggregate amount of Revolving Commitments in respect of which Revolving Lenders shall have accepted the relevant Extension Offer shall exceed the maximum aggregate principal amount of Revolving Commitments offered to be extended by the Parent Borrower pursuant to such Extension Offer, then the Revolving Loans of such Revolving Lenders shall be extended ratably up to such maximum amount based on the respective principal amounts (but not to exceed actual holdings of record) with respect to which such Revolving Lenders have accepted such Extension Offer, (ix) all documentation in respect of such Extension shall be consistent with the foregoing, (x) any applicable Minimum Extension Condition shall be satisfied unless waived by the Parent Borrower and (xi) the Minimum Tranche Amount shall be satisfied unless waived by the Administrative Agent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall there be more than seven maturity dates in respect of the Credit Facilities (including any Extended Term Loans, Extended Revolving Commitments, Replacement Term Loans included in each such Extension Electionor Replacement Revolving Facilities).
(iiib) With respect to all Extensions consummated by the Parent Borrower pursuant to this Section, (i) such Extensions shall not constitute voluntary or mandatory payments or prepayments for purposes of Section 2.11 and (ii) no Extension Offer is required to be in any minimum amount or any minimum increment, provided that (x) the Parent Borrower may at its election specify as a condition (a “Minimum Extension Condition”) to consummating any such Extension that a minimum amount (to be determined and specified in the relevant Extension Offer in the Parent Borrower’s sole discretion and may be waived by the Parent Borrower) of Tranche A Term Loans or Revolving Commitments (as applicable) of any or all applicable tranches be tendered and (y) no tranche of Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is of less than $10,000,000 and 50,000,000 (the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension “Minimum ConditionTranche Amount”), which may be unless such Minimum Tranche Amount is waived by the Borrower in its sole discretionAdministrative Agent. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, fees or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans and/or Extended Revolving Commitments on the such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension AmendmentOffer) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment sectionSections 2.11 and 2.18) or any other Credit Loan Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension Extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a)Section.
(vic) In the event that No consent of any Lender or the Administrative Agent determinesshall be required to effectuate any Extension, and the Borrower agrees other than (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without A) the consent of each Lender agreeing to such Extension with respect to one or more of its Term Loans and/or Revolving Commitments (or a portion thereof) and (B) with respect to any other Extension of the Revolving Commitments, the consent of the Issuing Bank and Swingline Lender, which consent shall, in each case, not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. All Extended Term Loans, Extended Revolving Commitments and all obligations in respect thereof shall be Obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents that are secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis with all other applicable Obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. The Lenders hereby irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent to enter into an amendment amendments to this Agreement and the other Credit Loan Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following with the effective date Parent Borrower as may be necessary in order to establish new tranches or sub-tranches in respect of Revolving Commitments or Term Loans so extended and such technical amendments as may be necessary or appropriate in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Parent Borrower in connection with the establishment of such Extension Amendmentnew tranches or sub-tranches, in each case on terms consistent with this Section. Without limiting the foregoing, in connection with any Extensions the respective Loan Parties shall (at their expense) amend (and the Administrative Agent is hereby directed to amend) any Mortgage that has a maturity date prior to the then latest maturity date so that such maturity date is extended to the then latest maturity date (or such later date as may be advised by local counsel to the Administrative Agent).
(d) In connection with any Extension, the Parent Borrower shall provide the Administrative Agent at least five Business Days’ (or such shorter period as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent) prior written notice thereof, and shall agree to such procedures (including, without limitation, regarding timing, rounding and other adjustments and to ensure reasonable administrative management of the credit facilities hereunder after such Extension), if any, as the case may bebe established by, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially convertedor acceptable to, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required in each case acting reasonably to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate accomplish the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi)Section.
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Trimas Corp)
Extensions. (i) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Term Loans of any Class (an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Term Loan Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuanceDate; provided, however, that (1) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii2.15(a)(v)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but but, except as otherwise permitted by this Agreement, not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the First Lien Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and ), (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereofthereof and (5) the Extension Amendment may provide for other covenants and terms that apply solely to any period after the Latest Term Loan Maturity Date, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans of any Extension Series shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(vii) The Administrative Agent Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Revolving Credit Commitments of any Class, each existing at the time of such request (each, an “Existing Revolving Credit Commitment” and any related Revolving Credit Loans thereunder, “Existing Revolving Credit Loans”; each Existing Revolving Credit Commitment and related Existing Revolving Credit Loans together being referred to as an “Existing Revolving Credit Class”) be converted to extend the termination date thereof and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation scheduled maturity date(s) of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any payment of any interest, fees, principal with respect to all or premium in respect a portion of any principal amount of Existing Revolving Credit Loans related to such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (any such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments which have been so extended, “Extended Term Loans on such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension AmendmentRevolving Credit Commitments” and any related Revolving Credit Loans, “Extended Revolving Credit Loans”) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any to provide for other Credit Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated by terms consistent with this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) . In the event that the Administrative Agent determinesorder to establish any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendment, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi).
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.the
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Vistra Corp.)
Extensions. (i) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Term Loans of any Class (an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Term Loan Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuanceDate; provided, however, that (1) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii2.15(a)(v)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class 124 and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but but, except as otherwise permitted by this Agreement, not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the First Lien Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and ), (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereofthereof and (5) the Extension Amendment may provide for other covenants and terms that apply solely to any period after the Latest Term Loan Maturity Date, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans of any Extension Series shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased, including any further increase to the amortization amount to achieve fungibility of the Extended Term Loans with respect to such existing Term Loan Class).
(vii) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Revolving Credit Commitments of any Class, each existing at the time of such request (each, an “Existing Revolving Credit Commitment” and any related Revolving Credit Loans thereunder, “Existing Revolving Credit Loans”; each Existing Revolving Credit Commitment and related Existing Revolving Credit Loans together being referred to as an “Existing Revolving Credit Class”) be converted to extend the termination date thereof and the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of Existing Revolving Credit Loans related to such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (any such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments which have been so extended, “Extended Revolving Credit Commitments” and any related Revolving Credit Loans, “Extended Revolving Credit Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15(a). In order to establish any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Class of Existing Revolving Credit Commitments which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Revolving Credit Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments to be established, which, shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Revolving Credit Commitments, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (the “Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment”) unless (x) the Lenders providing Existing Revolving Credit Loans receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date of any Revolving Credit Commitments then outstanding under this Agreement, in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment; provided, however, that (w) all or any of the final maturity dates of such Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be delayed to later dates than the final maturity dates of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments, (x) (A) the interest rates, interest margins, rate floors, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discount and premiums with respect to the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be higher or lower than the interest margins rate floors, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discount and premiums for the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments and/or (B) additional fees and premiums may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Revolving Credit Commitments in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), (y) the commitment fee rate with respect to the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be higher or lower than the commitment fee rate for the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment and (z) unless otherwise permitted hereby, the amount of the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and the Lenders hereby consent principal amount of the Extended Revolving Credit Loans shall not exceed the amount of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments being extended and the principal amount of the related Existing Revolving Credit Loans being extended, respectively, and provided further that, notwithstanding anything to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by contrary in this Section 2.15(a) or otherwise, (including, for 1) the avoidance borrowing and repayment (other than in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of doubt, payment commitments) of any interest, fees, or premium in respect of the Extended Revolving Credit Loans under any Extended Term Loans Revolving Credit Commitments shall be made on such terms as a pro rata basis with any borrowings and repayments of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments and each other Class of Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (the mechanics for which may be implemented through the applicable Extension Amendment and may include technical changes related to the borrowing and repayment procedures of the applicable Credit Facility) and (2) assignments and participations of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and Extended Revolving Credit Loans shall be governed by the same assignment and participation provisions applicable to Revolving Credit Commitments and the Revolving Credit Loans related to such Commitments set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment) and hereby waive the requirements Section 13.6. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Revolving Credit Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments of any provision Existing Revolving Credit Class converted into Extended Revolving Credit Loans or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to any Revolving Credit Loan Extension Request. Any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or Extension Series shall constitute a separate Class of revolving credit commitments from the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments and from any other Existing Revolving Credit Document Commitments; provided that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In Extended Revolving Credit Commitments converted from an Existing Revolving Credit Class may, to the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Revolving Credit Commitments other than the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Existing Revolving Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendment, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into Class from which such other Term Loans Extended Revolving Credit Commitments were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi).
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Vistra Corp.)
Extensions. (i) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Term Loans of any Class (an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Term Loan Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuanceDate; provided, however, that (1) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii2.15(a)(v)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments Table of Contents may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but but, except as otherwise permitted by this Agreement, not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the First Lien Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and ), (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereofthereof and (5) the Extension Amendment may provide for other covenants and terms that apply solely to any period after the Latest Term Loan Maturity Date, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans of any Extension Series shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(vii) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Revolving Credit Commitments of any Class, each existing at the time of such request (each, an “Existing Revolving Credit Commitment” and any related Revolving Credit Loans thereunder, “Existing Revolving Credit Loans”; each Existing Revolving Credit Commitment and related Existing Revolving Credit Loans together being referred to as an “Existing Revolving Credit Class”) be converted to extend the termination date thereof and the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of Existing Revolving Credit Loans related to such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (any such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments which have been so extended, “Extended Revolving Credit Commitments” and any related Revolving Credit Loans, “Extended Revolving Credit Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15(a). In order to establish any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Class of Existing Revolving Credit Commitments which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Revolving Credit Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments to be established, which, shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Revolving Credit Commitments, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (the “Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment”) unless (x) the Lenders providing Existing Revolving Credit Loans receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date of any Revolving Credit Commitments then outstanding under this Agreement, in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Table of Contents Amendment; provided, however, that (w) all or any of the final maturity dates of such Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be delayed to later dates than the final maturity dates of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments, (x) (A) the interest rates, interest margins, rate floors, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discount and premiums with respect to the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be higher or lower than the interest margins rate floors, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discount and premiums for the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments and/or (B) additional fees and premiums may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Revolving Credit Commitments in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), (y) the commitment fee rate with respect to the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be higher or lower than the commitment fee rate for the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment and (z) unless otherwise permitted hereby, the amount of the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and the Lenders hereby consent principal amount of the Extended Revolving Credit Loans shall not exceed the amount of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments being extended and the principal amount of the related Existing Revolving Credit Loans being extended, respectively, and provided further that, notwithstanding anything to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by contrary in this Section 2.15(a) or otherwise, (including, for 1) the avoidance borrowing and repayment (other than in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of doubt, payment commitments) of any interest, fees, or premium in respect of the Extended Revolving Credit Loans under any Extended Term Loans Revolving Credit Commitments shall be made on such terms as a pro rata basis with any borrowings and repayments of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments and each other Class of Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (the mechanics for which may be implemented through the applicable Extension Amendment and may include technical changes related to the borrowing and repayment procedures of the applicable Credit Facility) and (2) assignments and participations of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and Extended Revolving Credit Loans shall be governed by the same assignment and participation provisions applicable to Revolving Credit Commitments and the Revolving Credit Loans related to such Commitments set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment) and hereby waive the requirements Section 13.6. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Revolving Credit Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments of any provision Existing Revolving Credit Class converted into Extended Revolving Credit Loans or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to any Revolving Credit Loan Extension Request. Any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or Extension Series shall constitute a separate Class of revolving credit commitments from the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments and from any other Existing Revolving Credit Document Commitments; provided that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In Extended Revolving Credit Commitments converted from an Existing Revolving Credit Class may, to the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Revolving Credit Commitments other than the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Existing Revolving Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendment, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into Class from which such other Term Loans Extended Revolving Credit Commitments were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi).
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
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Extensions. (i) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Term Loans of any Class (an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) )
(a ““ Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Term Loan Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuanceDate; provided, however, that (1) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii2.15(a)(v)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but but, except as otherwise permitted by this Agreement, not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the First Lien Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and ), (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereofthereof and (5) the Extension Amendment may provide for other covenants and terms that apply solely to any period after the Latest Term Loan Maturity Date, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any 129 AMERICAS 122173769123894352 of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans of any Extension Series shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased, including any further increase to the amortization amount to achieve fungibility of the Extended Term Loans with respect to such existing Term Loan Class).
(vii) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Revolving Credit Commitments of any Class, each existing at the time of such request (each, an “Existing Revolving Credit Commitment” and any related Revolving Credit Loans thereunder, “Existing Revolving Credit Loans”; each Existing Revolving Credit Commitment and related Existing Revolving Credit Loans together being referred to as an “Existing Revolving Credit Class”) be converted to extend the termination date thereof and the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of Existing Revolving Credit Loans related to such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (any such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments which have been so extended, “Extended Revolving Credit Commitments” and any related Revolving Credit Loans, “Extended Revolving Credit Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15(a). In order to establish any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Class of Existing Revolving Credit Commitments which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Revolving Credit Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments to be established, which, shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Revolving Credit Commitments, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (the “Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment”) unless (x) the Lenders providing Existing Revolving Credit Loans receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date of any Revolving Credit Commitments then outstanding under this Agreement, in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment; provided, however, that (w) all or any of the final maturity dates of such Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be delayed to later dates than the final maturity dates of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments, (x) (A) the interest rates, interest margins, rate floors, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discount and premiums with respect to the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be higher or lower than the interest margins rate floors, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discount and premiums for the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments and/or (B) additional fees and premiums may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Revolving Credit Commitments in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), (y) the commitment fee rate with respect to the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be higher or lower than the commitment fee rate for the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment and (z) unless otherwise permitted hereby, the amount of the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and the Lenders hereby consent principal amount of the Extended Revolving Credit Loans shall not exceed the amount of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments being extended and the principal amount of the related Existing 130 AMERICAS 122173769123894352 Revolving Credit Loans being extended, respectively, and provided further that, notwithstanding anything to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by contrary in this Section 2.15(a) or otherwise, (including, for 1) the avoidance borrowing and repayment (other than in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of doubt, payment commitments) of any interest, fees, or premium in respect of the Extended Revolving Credit Loans under any Extended Term Loans Revolving Credit Commitments shall be made on such terms as a pro rata basis with any borrowings and repayments of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments and each other Class of Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (the mechanics for which may be implemented through the applicable Extension Amendment and may include technical changes related to the borrowing and repayment procedures of the applicable Credit Facility) and (2) assignments and participations of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and Extended Revolving Credit Loans shall be governed by the same assignment and participation provisions applicable to Revolving Credit Commitments and the Revolving Credit Loans related to such Commitments set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment) and hereby waive the requirements Section 13.6. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Revolving Credit Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments of any provision Existing Revolving Credit Class converted into Extended Revolving Credit Loans or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to any Revolving Credit Loan Extension Request. Any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or Extension Series shall constitute a separate Class of revolving credit commitments from the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments and from any other Existing Revolving Credit Document Commitments; provided that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In Extended Revolving Credit Commitments converted from an Existing Revolving Credit Class may, to the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Revolving Credit Commitments other than the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Existing Revolving Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendment, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into Class from which such other Term Loans Extended Revolving Credit Commitments were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi).
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
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Extensions. (ia) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Term Loans of any Class (an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, that (1) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15Agreement, and without limiting the generality pursuant to one or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendmentsmore offers (each, any an “Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional AmendmentOffer”) made from time to this Agreement and time by the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply Parent Borrower to all Lenders of Tranche A Term Loans with a like maturity date or Revolving Commitments with a like maturity date, in each case on a pro rata basis (based on the requirements aggregate outstanding principal amount of Section 2.15(athe respective Tranche A Term Loans or Revolving Commitments with a like maturity date, as the case may be) and do not become effective prior on the same terms to each such Lender, the Parent Borrower is hereby permitted to consummate from time to time transactions with individual Lenders that accept the terms contained in such Extension Offers to extend the maturity date of each such Lender’s Tranche A Term Loans and/or Revolving Commitments and otherwise modify the terms of such Tranche A Term Loans and/or Revolving Commitments pursuant to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to terms of the relevant Extension Offer (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders by increasing the interest rate or fees payable in respect of Incremental such Tranche A Term Loans provided for and/or Revolving Commitments (and related outstandings) and/or modifying the amortization schedule in any Incremental Amendment respect of such Lender’s Tranche A Term Loans) (each, an “Extension,” and (2) consents applicable to holders each group of any Extended Tranche A Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lendersor Revolving Commitments, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) aboveapplicable, in each case as so extended, as well as the case of the existing original Tranche A Term Loans of and the original Revolving Commitments (in each Extending Lendercase not so extended), the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any being a “tranche”; any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class tranche of Term Loans from the Existing tranche of Term Loan Class Loans from which they were converted; provided that , and any Extended Term Loans converted Revolving Commitments shall constitute a separate tranche of Revolving Commitments from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class tranche of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class Revolving Commitments from which such Extended Term Loans they were converted converted), so long as the following terms are satisfied: (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and continuing at the Lenders hereby consent to time the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, or premium offering document in respect of any Extended Term Loans on such terms an Extension Offer is delivered to the Lenders, (ii) except as may to interest rates, fees and final maturity (which shall be determined by the Parent Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment) and hereby waive Offer), the requirements Revolving Commitment of any provision of this Agreement Revolving Lender that agrees to an extension with respect to such Revolving Commitment extended pursuant to an Extension (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any other Credit Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(aan “Extended Revolving Commitment”).
(vi) In the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees related outstandings, shall be a Revolving Commitment (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendmentor related outstandings, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for with the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, same terms as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred original Revolving Commitments (and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, related outstandings); provided that (Bx) be subject to the satisfaction provisions of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower Sections 2.04(de) and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi).
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.2.05
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Extensions. (ia) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Term Loans of any Class (an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans (any such Term Loans which have been so convertedmay, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a by written notice to the Administrative Agent from time to time, request an extension (who each, an “Extension”) of the maturity date of any class of Loans to the extended maturity date specified in such notice. Such notice shall provide (i) set forth the amount of the applicable class of Loans that will be subject to the Extension (which shall be in minimum increments of $1,000,000 and a copy minimum amount of $10,000,000 (or the remaining amount of such class of Loans)), (ii) set forth the date on which such Extension is requested to become effective (which shall be not less than ten (10) Business Days nor more than sixty (60) days after the date of such Extension notice (or such longer or shorter periods as the Administrative Agent shall agree in its sole discretion)) and (iii) identify the relevant class of Loans to each which such Extension relates. Each Lender of the applicable class shall be offered (an “Extension Offer”) an opportunity to participate in such Extension on a pro rata basis and on the same terms and conditions as each other Lender of such class pursuant to procedures established by, or reasonably acceptable to, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower. No Lender shall be obligated to participate in any such Extension. If the aggregate principal amount of Loans in respect of which Lenders shall have accepted the relevant Extension Offer shall exceed the maximum aggregate principal amount of Loans, as applicable, subject to the Extension Offer as set forth in the Extension notice, then the Loans, as applicable, of Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, that (1) the scheduled final maturity date class shall be extended and all or any of ratably up to such maximum amount based on the scheduled amortization payments of respective principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, amounts with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were convertedLenders have accepted such Extension Offer.
(b) The following shall be conditions precedent to the effectiveness of any Extension: (i) no Unmatured Event of Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing immediately prior to and immediately after giving effect to such Extension, in each case as more particularly (ii) the representations and warranties set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii))9 and in each other Loan Document shall be deemed to be made and shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the effective date of such Extension, and (2)(Aiii) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption the terms of such Extended Loans shall comply with paragraph (c) of this Section.
(c) The terms of each Extension shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest ratesapplicable extending Lenders and set forth in an Extension Amendment; provided that (i) the final maturity date of any Extended Loan shall be no earlier than the existing maturity date of the class of Loans being extended, interest marginsrespectively, upfront fees(ii)(A) there shall be no scheduled amortization of the loans and (B) the average life to maturity of the Extended Loans shall be no shorter than the remaining average life to maturity of the existing Loans being extended, funding discounts(iii) the Extended Loans will rank pari passu in right of payment and with respect to security with the existing Loans and the borrower and guarantors of the Extended Loans, original issue discounts as applicable, shall be the same as the Borrower and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) Guarantors with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than existing Loans, as applicable, (iv) the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional rate margin, rate floors, fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may original issue discount and premium applicable to Extended Loans shall be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated determined by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in Borrower and the applicable Extension Amendmentextending Lenders, (3v) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than pro rata basisrata) basis in any voluntary or mandatory prepayments with the other Loans, and (vi) the terms of the Extended Loans, as applicable, shall be substantially identical to the terms set forth herein (except as set forth in clauses (i) through (v) above).
(d) In connection with any Extension, the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and each applicable extending Lender shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Extension Amendment and such other documentation as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably specify to evidence the Extension. The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender as to the effectiveness of each Extension. Any Extension Amendment may, without the consent of any Class other Lender, effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of Term the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, to implement the terms of any such Extension, including any amendments necessary to establish Extended Loans hereunder; provided that if as a new class or tranche of Loans and such Extended Term Loans are unsecured other technical amendments as may be necessary or rank junior appropriate in right the reasonable opinion of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except Administrative Agent and the Borrower in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase the establishment of such new class or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and tranche (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject including to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by preserve the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the principal amount pro rata treatment of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all and non-extended classes or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Requesttranches), Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to case on terms consistent with this Agreement (whichsection, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans on such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any other Credit Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendment, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi).
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
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Extensions. (a) Borrower shall have two (2) options to extend the term of the Loans (but not the term of only the Building Loan or only the Project Loan) for six (6) months each upon the satisfaction of the following terms and conditions:
(i) The not less than sixty (60) days before the Maturity Date, Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion shall have given Agent notice of the Term Loans of any Class (an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted its election to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each term of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, that (1) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term this Section 3.19(a) and Section 3.19(a) of the Project Loan Agreement (the date on which such notice shall be given being hereinafter referred to as the “Extension Request.Option Exercise Date”);
(ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount Extension Option Exercise Date and through and including the Maturity Date, no monetary Event of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election.Default shall exist;
(iii) Extended Term Loans Borrower shall pay the Extension Fee on or before the Maturity Date;
(iv) Core and Shell Completion shall have been achieved by the date which is fifteen (15) days prior to the Maturity Date (the “Measuring Date”) and a temporary certificate of occupancy (which may be a zero occupancy or core and shell certificate of occupancy) shall have been issued for the Project on or before the Measuring Date;
(v) as of the Measuring Date, the Pro Forma Debt Service Coverage Ratio (calculated after giving effect to the payment made pursuant to clause (6) of Section 7.46(a) hereof) shall be established pursuant equal to an amendment or greater than 1.30:1.0, provided that, for purposes of this clause (an “Extension Amendment”vi), only Approved Leases with respect to which Rents are being paid as of the Measuring Date shall be included for purposes of calculating Pro Forma Operating Income;
(vi) to this Agreement the NYTC Units Redemption shall have occurred on or before the Measuring Date; and
(whichvii) the ratio, except expressed as a percentage, of the Remaining Loan Amount as of the Maturity Date to the extent expressly contemplated Appraised Value (as shown in a new appraisal by the appraiser that performed the Appraisal or any other “MAI” appraiser selected by Agent or an update to the Appraisal, in either case dated as of a date no earlier than sixty (60) days prior to the Measuring Date) shall be equal to or less than fifty-five percent (55%). If the conditions under this Section 3.19(a) are met, then the reference to the Original Maturity Date in the definition of Maturity Date (or such later date that has replaced the Original Maturity Date in said definition as a result of the application of the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii3.19(b) hereof) shall be deemed deleted and notwithstanding anything replaced with a reference to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount a date that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans six-month anniversary of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to Original Maturity Date (or such Extension Amendment later date) (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lenderfirst option) (such date, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to “First Extended Maturity Date”) or the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from date that is the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation six-month anniversary of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) First Extended Maturity Date (including, for or such later date that has replaced the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, or premium First Extended Maturity Date in respect of any Extended Term Loans on such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any other Credit Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined said definition as a result of manifest administrative error the application of the last sentence of Section 3.19(b) hereof)(in the case of the second option) (the “Second Extended Maturity Date”). Such extension shall be on the same terms and conditions contained in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents except (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendment, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(ax) to the extent reasonably necessary expressly provided to effectuate the purposes of contrary herein, and (y) if the first extension has occurred, Borrower shall only have the right to one (1) remaining six-month extension pursuant to this Section 2.15(a)(vi3.19(a) and if the second extension has occurred, Borrower shall have no further right to extend the term of the Loans pursuant to this Section 3.19(a).
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
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Extensions. (i) The Borrower Tranche A Termination Date may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion be extended annually, on each of the Term Loans first and second anniversaries of any Class the Closing Date (such first and second anniversaries of the Closing Date, each an “Existing Term Loan ClassAnniversary Date”) be converted to extend ), in the scheduled maturity date(s) manner set forth in this subsection (c)(i), in each case for a period of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15one year measured from the Tranche A Termination Date then in effect. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, If the Borrower wishes to request an extension of the Tranche A Termination Date, it shall provide a give notice to that effect to the Administrative Agent (who not more than 90 and not less than 45 days prior to the applicable Anniversary Date. The Administrative Agent shall provide a copy promptly notify each Tranche A Bank of receipt of such request. Each Tranche A Bank shall endeavor to respond to such request, whether affirmatively or negatively (such determination in the sole discretion of such Tranche A Bank), by notice to each the Borrower and the Administrative Agent within 30 days of receipt of such request. Subject to the execution by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and such Tranche A Banks of a duly completed Extension Agreement in substantially the form of Exhibit E and the satisfaction of the Lenders other conditions to such extension in this subsection (c)(i), the Tranche A Termination Date applicable to the Tranche A Commitment of each Tranche A Bank so affirmatively notifying the Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall be extended, effective as of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which Anniversary Date (except that, if such request date is not a Domestic Business Day, such extension shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth effective on the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrowerimmediately succeeding Domestic Business Day), when taken as a whole, than for the terms period specified above; provided that no Tranche A Termination Date of the Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class any Tranche A Bank shall be extended unless (x) the Lenders Tranche A Banks having more than 50% in aggregate amount of the Term Loans of Tranche A Commitments in effect at the time any such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or extension is requested shall have elected so to extend their Tranche A Commitments and (y) on the applicable Anniversary Date, both immediately before and after giving effect to any such provisions apply after extension of the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; providedTranche A Termination Date, however, that (1i) the scheduled final maturity date representations and warranties contained in Article 4 shall be extended true and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may correct and (ii) no Default shall have occurred and be delayed continuing. Any Tranche A Bank which does not give such notice to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest ratesAdministrative Agent shall be deemed to have elected not to extend as requested. For the avoidance of doubt, interest marginsany Tranche A Bank that elects (or is deemed to have elected) to not extend its Tranche A Commitment pursuant to this subsection (c)(i), upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect shall be required to maintain its Tranche A Commitment then in effect pursuant to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than terms and conditions contained herein and including the interest margins Tranche A Termination Date then in effect and floors for applicable to such non-extending Tranche A Lender, without giving effect to such requested extension. The Borrower, at its discretion, will have the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of right at any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans time pursuant to Section 8.6 to seek a substitute bank or banks for any Term Loan Extension RequestTranche A Bank which does not elect to extend its Tranche A Commitment.
(ii) Any Lender The Tranche B Termination Date may be extended annually, on each of Anniversary Date, in the manner set forth in this subsection (c)(ii), in each case for a period of one year measured from the Tranche B Termination Date then in effect. If the Borrower wishes to request an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans extension of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject Tranche B Termination Date, it shall give notice to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify that effect to the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or not more than 90 and not less than 45 days prior to the date specified in applicable Anniversary Date. The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Tranche B Bank of receipt of such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject request. Each Tranche B Bank shall endeavor to respond to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In request, whether affirmatively or negatively (such determination in the event that the aggregate principal amount sole discretion of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant such Tranche B Bank), by notice to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans Borrower and the Administrative Agent within 30 days of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount receipt of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except request. Subject to the extent expressly contemplated execution by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit PartiesBorrower, the Administrative Agent and such Tranche B Banks of a duly completed Extension Agreement in substantially the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class form of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 Exhibit E and the Borrower may condition satisfaction of the effectiveness other conditions to such extension in this subsection (c)(ii), the Tranche B Termination Date applicable to the Tranche B Commitment of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by each Tranche B Bank so affirmatively notifying the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(athe Administrative Agent shall be extended, effective as of the applicable Anniversary Date (except that, if such date is not a Domestic Business Day, such extension shall be effective on the immediately succeeding Domestic Business Day), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documentsperiod specified above; provided that no Tranche B Termination Date of any Tranche B Bank shall be extended unless (x) Tranche B Banks having more than 50% in aggregate amount of the Tranche B Commitments in effect at the time any such Section 2.15(aextension is requested shall have elected so to extend their Tranche B Commitments and (y) Additional Amendments comply with on the requirements applicable Anniversary Date, both immediately before and after giving effect to any such extension of Section 2.15(athe Tranche B Termination Date, (i) the representations and do warranties contained in Article 4 shall be true and correct and (ii) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing. Any Tranche B Bank which does not become effective prior give such notice to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment Borrower and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans Administrative Agent shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such datehave elected not to extend as requested. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (including, for For the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interestTranche B Bank that elects (or is deemed to have elected) to not extend its Tranche B Commitment pursuant to this subsection (c)(ii), fees, or premium shall be required to maintain its Tranche B Commitment then in respect of any Extended Term Loans on effect pursuant to the terms and conditions contained herein and including the Tranche B Termination Date then in effect and applicable to such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (includingnon-extending Tranche B Lender, without limitationgiving effect to such requested extension. The Borrower, at its discretion, will have the right at any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any other Credit Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendment, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi).
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments time pursuant to Section 8.6 to seek a substitute bank or banks for any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this AgreementTranche B Bank which does not elect to extend its Tranche B Commitment.
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Samples: Three Year Credit Agreement (American Express Credit Corp)
Extensions. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, pursuant to one or more offers (ieach, an “Extension Offer”) The Borrower may at any time and made from time to time request by the Borrower Representative to all Lenders holding Term Loans with a like maturity date or all Revolving Lenders having Revolving Loan Commitments with a like commitment termination date, in each case on a pro rata basis (based on the aggregate outstanding principal amount of such respective Term Loans or amounts of Revolving Loan Commitments) and on the same terms to each such Lender, the Borrowers are hereby permitted to consummate from time to time transactions with individual Lenders that accept the terms contained in any such Extension Offers to extend the maturity date and/or commitment termination of each such Lender’s Term Loans and/or Revolving Loan Commitments, and, subject to the terms hereof, otherwise modify the terms of such Term Loans and/or Revolving Loan Commitments pursuant to the terms of the relevant Extension Offer (including by increasing the interest rate and/or fees payable in respect of such Term Loans and/or Revolving Loan Commitments (and related outstandings) and/or modifying the amortization schedule in respect of such Lender’s Term Loans) (each, an “Extension”; and each group of Term Loans or Revolving Loan Commitments, as applicable, in each case as so extended, as well as the original Term Loans and the original Revolving Loan Commitments (in each case not so extended), being a separate Class), so long as the following terms are satisfied:
(i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time the applicable Extension Offer is delivered to the Lenders;
(ii) except as to final commitment termination date (which shall be determined by the Borrowers and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer, subject to acceptance by the Extended Revolving Lenders), the Revolving Loan Commitment of any Revolving Lender that agrees to an Extension with respect to such Revolving Loan Commitment (an “Extended Revolving Lender”) extended pursuant to an Extension (an “Extended Revolving Loan Commitment” and the Loans thereunder, “Extended Revolving Loans”) and the related outstandings shall be a Revolving Loan Commitment (or related outstandings, as the case may be) with the same terms (or terms not less favorable to existing Revolving Lenders) as the original Revolving Loan Commitments (and related outstandings); provided that (1) the borrowing and payments (except for (A) payments of interest and/or fees at different rates on Extended Revolving Loan Commitments (and related outstandings), (B) repayments required upon the commitment termination date of the non-extended Class of Revolving Loan Commitments and (C) repayment made in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of commitments) of Revolving Loans with respect to Extended Revolving Loan Commitments after the applicable Extension date shall be made on a pro rata basis with all or other Revolving Loan Commitments, (2) subject to Section 10.1(b), all Swing Loans and Letters of Credit shall be participated on a portion pro rata basis by all Lenders with Revolving Loan Commitments (including Extended Revolving Loan Commitments) in accordance with their percentage of the Aggregate Revolving Loan Commitments, (3) the permanent repayment of Revolving Loans with respect to, and termination of, Extended Revolving Loan Commitments after the applicable Extension date shall be made on a pro rata basis with all other Revolving Loan Commitments, except that the Borrowers shall be permitted to repay permanently and terminate commitments of any such Class on a better than pro rata basis as compared to any other Class with a later commitment termination date than such Class, (4) assignments and participations of Extended Revolving Loan Commitments and related Revolving Loans shall be governed by the same assignment and participation provisions applicable to the other Classes of Revolving Loan Commitments and Revolving Loans and (5) at no time shall there be Revolving Loan Commitments hereunder (including Extended Revolving Loan Commitments and any original Revolving Loan Commitments) which have more than two (2) different maturity dates;
(iii) except as to interest rates, fees, amortization, final maturity date, premium, required prepayment dates and participation in prepayments (which shall, subject to immediately succeeding clauses (iv), (v) and (vi), be determined by the Borrowers and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer, subject to acceptance by the Extending Term Lenders), the Term Loans of any Class Term Lender that agrees to an Extension (such commitment, an “Extended Term Loan Commitment”) with respect to such Term Loans owed to it (an “Existing Extending Term Loan ClassLender”) be converted extended pursuant to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans Extension (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and shall have the same terms as the Class of Term Loans subject to provide such Extension Offer (except for covenants or other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order provisions contained therein applicable only to establish periods after the then Latest Maturity Date);
(iv) the final maturity date of any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request Loans shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, no earlier than the terms Latest Maturity Date of the Term Loans of extended thereby and the Existing Term Loan Class unless (xamortization schedule applicable to Loans pursuant to Section 2.8(a) for periods prior to the Lenders original maturity date of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or shall not be increased;
(y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, that (1v) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or Weighted Average Life to Maturity of any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may shall be delayed to later dates no shorter than the scheduled amortization of principal Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class extended thereby;
(with vi) any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class with non-extended Classes of Term Loans in any voluntary or mandatory prepayments hereunder, in each case as specified in the respective Extension Offer; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(iivii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that if the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based (calculated on the outstanding principal amount thereof) and/or Revolving Loan Commitments, as the case may be, in respect of which Term Lenders or Revolving Lenders, as applicable, shall have accepted the relevant Extension Offer shall exceed the maximum aggregate principal amount of Term Loans included in each or Revolving Loan Commitments, as the case may be, offered to be extended by the Borrower Representative pursuant to such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Offer, then the Term Loans and/or Revolving Loans of such Term Lenders or Revolving Lenders, as applicable, shall be established pursuant extended ratably up to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to such maximum amount based on the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders respective principal or commitment amounts with respect to which such Term Lenders and/or Revolving Lenders, as the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed case may be, have accepted such Extension Offer. With respect to all Extensions consummated by the Credit PartiesBorrowers pursuant to this Section, the Administrative Agent (i) such Extensions shall not constitute voluntary or mandatory payments or prepayments for purposes of Sections 2.7 or 2.8 and the Extending Lenders. No (ii) no Extension Amendment shall provide for Offer is required to be in any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal minimum amount or any minimum increment; provided that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower Representative may at its election specify as a condition to consummating any such Extension that a minimum amount (to be determined and specified in the effectiveness of any relevant Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which Offer in the Borrower Representative’s sole discretion and may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount Representative) of Term Loans of the Existing Term or Revolving Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment Commitments (it being understood that the amount as applicable) of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not or all applicable Classes be reduced as a result thereof)tendered. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, fees or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans and/or Extended Revolving Loan Commitments on the such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension AmendmentOffer) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any other Credit Loan Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict conflict with any such extension Extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In the event Section. Any Lender that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series does not respond to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted Offer by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable due date shall be deemed to have rejected such Extension AmendmentOffer. No consent of Agent or any Lender shall be required to effectuate any Extension, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may other than (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without A) the consent of each Lender agreeing to such Extension with respect to one or more of its Term Loans and/or Revolving Loan Commitments (or a portion thereof) and (B) with respect to any Extension of the Revolving Loan Commitments, the consent of the L/C Issuer and Swing Lender. All Extended Term Loans, Extended Revolving Loan Commitments and all obligations in respect thereof shall be Obligations under this Agreement and the other Lender, Loan Documents and secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis with all other applicable Obligations. The Lenders hereby irrevocably authorize Agent to enter into an amendment amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the Borrower Representative (on behalf of all Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”Parties) within 15 days following as may be necessary in order to establish new Classes or sub-Classes in respect of Revolving Loan Commitments or Term Loans so extended and such technical amendments as may be necessary in the effective date reasonable opinion of Agent and the Borrower Representative in connection with the establishment of such Extension Amendmentnew Classes or sub-Classes, as in each case on terms consistent with this Section. In addition, if so provided in such amendment and with the case may beconsent of each L/C Issuer, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension participations in Letters of Credit expiring on or after the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or commitment termination date shall be re-allocated from Lenders holding non-extended Revolving Loan Commitments to which it was entitled under Lenders holding Extended Revolving Loan Commitments in accordance with the terms of such Extension Amendmentamendment; provided, however, that such participation interests shall, upon receipt thereof by the relevant Lenders holding Revolving Loan Commitments, be deemed to be participation interests in respect of such Revolving Loan Commitments and the terms of such participation interests shall be adjusted accordingly. Without limiting the foregoing, in connection with any Extensions the absence of such error, applicable Credit Parties shall (Bat their expense) be subject amend (and Agent is hereby directed by the Lenders to amend) any Mortgage that has a maturity date prior to the satisfaction Latest Maturity Date, so that such maturity date referenced therein is extended to the later of the then Latest Maturity Date (or such conditions later date as may be advised by local counsel to Agent). Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the Administrative Agenteffectiveness of each such amendment. In connection with any Extension, the Borrower Representative shall provide Agent at least five (5) Business Days (or such shorter period as may be agreed by Agent) prior written notice thereof, and shall agree to such Lender may agree procedures (including conditions regarding timing, rounding and other adjustments and to ensure reasonable administrative management of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)credit facilities hereunder after such Extension), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described if any, as may be established by, or acceptable to, Agent, in Section 2.15(a) each case acting reasonably to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate accomplish the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi10.1(f).
(vii. This Section 10.1(f) No conversion shall supersede any provisions of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary 10.1 or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this AgreementSection 10.11 to the contrary.
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Extensions. (i) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Term Loans of any Class (an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Term Loan Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuancewith respect to Initial Term Loans; provided, however, that (1) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii2.15(a)(v)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but but, except as otherwise permitted by this Agreement, not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and ), (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereofthereof and (5) the Extension Amendment may provide for other covenants and terms that apply solely to any period after the Term Loan Maturity Date with respect to Initial Term Loans, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans of any Extension Series shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased, including any further increase to the amortization amount relating to any existing Term Loan Class to which such Extended Term Loans are added to achieve fungibility of the Extended Term Loans with respect to such existing Term Loan Class).
(vii) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Revolving Credit Commitments of any Class, each existing at the time of such request (each, an “Existing Revolving Credit Commitment” and any related Revolving Credit Loans thereunder, “Existing Revolving Credit Loans”; each Existing Revolving Credit Commitment and related Existing Revolving Credit Loans together being referred to as an “Existing Revolving Credit Class”) be converted to extend the termination date thereof and the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of Existing Revolving Credit Loans related to such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (any such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments which have been so extended, “Extended Revolving Credit Commitments” and any related Revolving Credit Loans, “Extended Revolving Credit Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15(a). In order to establish any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Class of Existing Revolving Credit Commitments which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) (a “Revolving Credit Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments to be established, which, shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Revolving Credit Commitments, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of such Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (the “Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment”) unless (x) the Lenders providing Existing Revolving Credit Loans receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Revolving Credit Termination Date, in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment; provided, however, that (w) all or any of the final maturity dates of such Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be delayed to later dates than the final maturity dates of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments, (x) (A) the interest rates, interest margins, rate floors, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discount and premiums with respect to the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be higher or lower than the interest margins rate floors, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discount and premiums for the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments and/or (B) additional fees and premiums may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Revolving Credit Commitments in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), (y) the commitment fee rate with respect to the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments may be higher or lower than the commitment fee rate for the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitment and (z) unless otherwise permitted hereby, the amount of the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and the Lenders hereby consent principal amount of the Extended Revolving Credit Loans shall not exceed the amount of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments being extended and the principal amount of the related Existing Revolving Credit Loans being extended, respectively, and provided further that, notwithstanding anything to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by contrary in this Section 2.15(a) or otherwise, (including, for 1) the avoidance borrowing and repayment (other than in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of doubt, payment commitments) of any interest, fees, or premium in respect of the Extended Revolving Credit Loans under any Extended Term Loans Revolving Credit Commitments shall be made on such terms as a pro rata basis with any borrowings and repayments of the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments and each other Class of Existing Revolving Credit Commitments (the mechanics for which may be implemented through the applicable Extension Amendment and may include technical changes related to the borrowing and repayment procedures of the applicable Credit Facility) and (2) assignments and participations of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and Extended Revolving Credit Loans shall be governed by the same assignment and participation provisions applicable to Revolving Credit Commitments and the Revolving Credit Loans related to such Commitments set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment) and hereby waive the requirements Section 13.6. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Revolving Credit Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments of any provision Existing Revolving Credit Class converted into Extended Revolving Credit Loans or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to any Revolving Credit Loan Extension Request. Any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or Extension Series shall constitute a separate Class of revolving credit commitments from the Specified Existing Revolving Credit Commitments and from any other Existing Revolving Credit Document Commitments; provided that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In Extended Revolving Credit Commitments converted from an Existing Revolving Credit Class may, to the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Revolving Credit Commitments other than the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Existing Revolving Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendment, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into Class from which such other Term Loans Extended Revolving Credit Commitments were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi).
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
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Extensions. (ia) The Borrower Borrowers and any one or more Lenders may at any time and from time to time request agree that all or a portion of the Term Loans such Lender’s Commitments in respect of any Class Facility (an “Existing Term Loan ClassRevolving Credit Facility”) be converted and/or modified to extend the final maturity date or scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment payments of principal principal, as applicable, with respect to all such Commitments and the Advances then outstanding or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans subsequently made in respect thereof (any such Term Loans Commitments which have been so convertedconverted and/or modified, “Extended Term LoansCommitments”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order 2.22, in each case, pursuant to establish an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) executed by the applicable Borrowers and each Lender agreeing to provide any portion of the relevant Extended Term LoansCommitments; provided, the Borrower a copy of such Extension Amendment shall provide a notice be provided to the Administrative Agent (who whereupon the Administrative Agent shall provide promptly deliver a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which Lender Parties); provided further, that no such request extension shall be offered equally effective to all extend the “Maturity Date” with respect to any applicable Issuing Bank or the Swing Line Lender (if such LendersCommitments relate to the US Revolving Credit Facility) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth without the proposed consent of such Issuing Bank or Swing Line Lender, as the case may be. The terms and conditions of the Extended Term Loans Commitments shall be identical in all material respects to the Existing Revolving Credit Facility from which such Extended Commitments are to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, converted and/or modified except that (1) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal (including payment at maturity) in respect of the Extended Commitments and Advances made thereunder may be delayed to dates later than the scheduled payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension AmendmentCommitments and Advances, as the case may beapplicable, with respect to under the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A)Revolving Credit Facility, in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable such Extension Amendment, and (32) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis Applicable Margin and/or fees payable with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except the Extended Commitments and Advances made in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement respect thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by different from the Borrower and same provisions under the Lenders thereofExisting Revolving Credit Facility, in each case, to the extent provided that in such Extension Amendment. For the principal amount avoidance of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No doubt, no Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans Commitments of any Existing Term Loan Class Revolving Credit Facility converted into Extended Term Loans Commitments pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may condition Upon the effectiveness of any such Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum ConditionAmendment, which may the Extended Commitments shall be waived Commitments under the same Facility as the related Existing Revolving Credit Facility. 102 Chemtura (Revolving Facility) Credit Agreement
(b) All Extended Commitments, Advances made thereunder and all obligations in respect thereof shall be Obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and secured by the Borrower in its sole discretionCollateral on a pari passu basis with all other applicable Obligations under related Existing Revolving Credit Facility under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. In addition The Lenders hereby irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agents to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional enter into further amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply Loan Documents with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) Borrowers solely as may be required necessary in order for to establish new classes or sub-classes in respect of such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, Commitments so extended and/or modified and such technical amendments as may be necessary or appropriate in the case reasonable opinion of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Borrowers in connection with the establishment of such new classes or sub-classes, of Commitments and/or Advances made in respect thereof, in each case on terms consistent with this Section 2.22. The Administrative Agents and the Lenders hereby consent to agree that the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (includingminimum borrowing, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans on such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment) pro rata borrowing and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any other Credit Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated by requirements contained elsewhere in this Agreement shall not apply to the transactions effected pursuant to this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error 2.22. This Section 2.22 shall supersede any provisions in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendment, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans Section 2.14 or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject 10.01 to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi)contrary.
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
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Samples: Senior Secured Revolving Facilities Credit Agreement (Chemtura CORP)
Extensions. (i) The Borrower may at any time and from time to time request that all or a portion of the Term Loans of any Class (an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.15. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally to all such Lenders) )
(a ““ Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, that (1) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of principal of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or in the Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term 90 Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)), (2)(A) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors for the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3) the Extended Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments of any Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted herein. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(ii) Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans. In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iii) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretion. In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a), each Extension Amendment shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or the applicable Extension Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (it being understood that the amount of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans on such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without 92 limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any other Credit Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendment, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, as the case may be, in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi).
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
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Extensions. (ia) The Borrower may at any time time, and from time to time time, request that all or a portion of the Term Loans of any Class (an the “Existing Term Loan ClassLoans”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Existing Loans (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.152.17 (and such request shall be made to all Lenders holding Loans of such Class). In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally to all such LendersLoans) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms (and principal amount) of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (A) reflect market terms and conditions (taken as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive identical to the Credit Parties (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Existing Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless from which they are to be converted except (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, that (1) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and any or all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of the aggregate principal amount of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class Loans (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 or 2.07, in the Extension Incremental Amendment or Refinancing Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class Loans from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)), 2.17(b) below) and (2)(Ay) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by (A) the Borrower and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) Applicable Rate with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins and floors Applicable Rate for the Term Existing Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class and/or (B) additional fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments fees may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items increased margins contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment; provided that, (3) notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.17, no Extended Term Loans Loan may participate on a pro rata basis, greater be optionally prepaid other than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not prior to the date on a greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments which all of any the Loans of the Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if from which such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior Loan was converted shall have been repaid in right of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except in connection with any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, provided that the principal amount of the Extended Term Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans being extended except as otherwise permitted hereinfull. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Existing Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(iib) The Borrower shall provide the applicable Loan Extension Request at least seven (7) Business Days prior to the date on which Lenders of the Existing Loans (the “Existing Lenders”) are requested to respond. Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Existing Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Existing Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans; provided that if any Existing Lenders fail to respond, such Existing Lenders will be deemed to have declined to extend their Loans. In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Existing Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Existing Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term Existing Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iiic) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.111.01, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) ), which Extension Amendment shall be executed by the Credit Parties, Loan Parties and be consented (such consent to not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) by the Administrative Agent and the Extending LendersAgent. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class tranche of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and 50,000,000 (unless the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretionAdministrative Agent shall agree to a lesser amount). In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a2.17(a), each Extension Amendment (x) shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 or 2.07, the applicable Extension Incremental Amendment or Refinancing Amendment with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class Loans from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount amortization payment for the Existing Term Loan Class Loans in the same proportion as the amount of Term Existing Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be that shall have been converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment (but it being is understood and agreed that the amount no holder of any Repayment Amount payable with respect to any individual Term Existing Loan of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not converted into an Extended Term Loan shall not be have its amortization reduced as a result thereof). Notwithstanding anything to by virtue of the contrary in this Section 2.15, and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or loan extension contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments comply with the requirements of Section 2.15(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(iv) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, on any date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class may, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans on such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment) and hereby waive (y) may, but shall not be required to, impose additional requirements (not inconsistent with the requirements of any provision provisions of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment in effect at such time) with respect to the final maturity and Weighted Average Life to Maturity of Incremental Loans or amendment section) or any other Credit Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Other Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days incurred following the effective date of such Extension Amendment, as the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for the conversion and extension . Each exercise of the applicable Term Loans extension feature referred to in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, as the case may be, this Section 2.17 shall result in the amount Extended Loans and the Existing Loans each being deemed a separate “Class” of Loans, and any Class of Loans may thereafter be extended in whole or in part pursuant to this Section 2.17 (whether or not such Lender would have held Class had previously been offered an extension pursuant to this Section 2.17). The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to reasonably request, and the Borrower shall, upon such administrative error not occurred and had such Lender received request deliver, items similar to those in Sections 4.01(a)(vi) through (xii) with respect to the minimum allocation of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such transactions contemplated by any Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a)), and (C) effect such other amendments of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described in Section 2.15(a) to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi).
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Nortek Inc)
Extensions. (ia) The Borrower Borrowers may at any time time, and from time to time time, request that all or a portion of the Term Loans of any Class (an “Existing Term Loan Class”) be converted to extend the scheduled maturity date(s) of any payment of principal with respect to all or a portion of any principal amount of such Term Loans Existing Class (any such Term Loans which have been so converted, “Extended Term Loans”) and to provide for other terms consistent with this Section 2.153.1. In order to establish any Extended Term Loans, the Borrower RailAmerica shall provide a notice to the Administrative Agent (who shall provide a copy of such notice to each of the Lenders of the applicable such Existing Term Loan Class which such request shall be offered equally to all such LendersClass) (a “Term Loan Extension Request”) setting forth the proposed terms of the Extended Term Loans to be established, which shall either, at the option of the Borrower, (AI) reflect market terms and conditions be identical as offered to each Lender under such Existing Class (taken including as a whole) at the time of incurrence or issuance (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) or (B) if not consistent with the terms of the applicable Existing Term Loan Class, shall not be materially more restrictive to the Credit Parties proposed interest rates and fees payable) and offered pro rata to each Lender under such Existing Class and (as determined in good faith by II) be identical to the Borrower), when taken as a whole, than the terms of the Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class unless from which they are to be converted except (x) the Lenders of the Term Loans of such applicable Existing Term Loan Class receive the benefit of such more restrictive terms or (y) any such provisions apply after the Latest Maturity Date as determined at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, however, that (1w) the scheduled final maturity date shall be extended and any or all or any of the scheduled amortization payments of the aggregate principal amount of the Extended Term Loans may be delayed to later dates than the scheduled amortization of principal of the Term Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class (with any such delay resulting in a corresponding adjustment to the scheduled amortization payments reflected in Section 2.5 2.14 or in the applicable Extension Amendment, as the case may be, with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted, in each case as more particularly set forth in Section 2.15(a)(iii)3.1(b) below), (2)(Ax) pricing, fees, optional prepayment or redemption terms shall be determined in good faith by (A) the Borrower Eurodollar Margin and the interest rates, interest margins, upfront fees, funding discounts, original issue discounts and premiums (including through fixed rate interest) ABR Margin with respect to the Extended Term Loans may be higher or lower than the interest margins Eurodollar Margin and floors the ABR Margin for the Term Existing Class (or another interest rate mechanism or other interest rates for such Extended Loans of such Existing Term Loan Class may be agreed to by the Lenders providing the Extended Loans and the Borrowers) and/or (B) additional fees (including original issue discount and upfront fees, premiums or AHYDO Catch-Up Payments ) may be payable to the Lenders providing such Extended Term Loans in addition to or in lieu of any of the items increased margins contemplated by the preceding clause (A), in each case, to the extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, (3y) Extended Loans may have call protection as may be agreed by the Borrowers and the Lenders thereof and (z) the Extension Amendment relating to such Extended Term Loans may provide for other covenants and terms applicable to such Extended Loans that apply solely to any period after the Latest Maturity Date that is in effect on the effective date of the Extension Amendment (immediately prior to the establishment of such Extended Loans); provided that (i) any Extended Loans may participate on a pro rata basis, greater than pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayment of any Class of Term Loans or mandatory repayments or prepayments hereunder and may participate on a pro rata basis or less than a pro rata basis (but not on a greater than a pro rata basis) with respect to the Loans of the Existing Class from which they are to be converted, in any mandatory prepayments each case as specified in the respective Loan Extension Request; (ii) no Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time an Extension Amendment becomes effective; (iii) the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of any Extended Loans of a given Extension Series at the time of establishment thereof shall be no shorter (other than by virtue of amortization or prepayment of such Indebtedness prior to the time of incurrence of such Extended Loans) than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity, as of the date of the Extension Amendment relating to such Extended Loans, of the Existing Class; (iv) in no event shall the final maturity date of any Extended Loans of a given Extension Series at the time of establishment thereof be earlier than the then Latest Maturity Date of any other Class of Term Loans hereunder; provided that if (v) any such Extended Term Loans are unsecured or rank junior (and the Liens securing the same) shall be permitted by the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement (to the extent the Intercreditor Agreement is then in right effect); (vi) at no time shall there be Classes of payment or as to security with the Obligations, such Extended Term Loans shall participate on a junior basis with respect to mandatory repayments of Term Loans hereunder (except including Incremental Loans, Extended Loans and Refinancing Loans) that have more than six (6) different maturity dates; and (vii) all documentation in connection respect of such Extension Amendment shall be consistent with the foregoing. Any Extended Loans amended pursuant to any refinancing, extension, renewal, replacement, repurchase or retirement thereof permitted by Extension Amendment shall be designated a separate Extension Series of Extended Loans for all purposes of this Agreement) and (4) Extended Term Loans may have call protection and prepayment premiums and, subject to clause (3) above, other redemption terms as may be agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders thereof, ; provided that any Extended Loans may, to the principal amount extent provided in the applicable Extension Amendment, be designated as an increase in any previously established Class of Loans that has a later maturity date than the Loans of the Extended Term Existing Class from which such Loans shall not exceed the principal amount of the Term Loans are being extended except as otherwise permitted hereinextended. No Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Term Loans of any Existing Term Loan Class converted into Extended Term Loans pursuant to any Term Loan Extension Request.
(iib) RailAmerica shall provide the applicable Loan Extension Request at least five (5) Business Days prior to the date on which Lenders of the Existing Class (the “Existing Lenders”) are requested to respond. Any Lender (an “Extending Lender”) wishing to have all or a portion of its Term Existing Class of Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request converted into Extended Term Loans shall notify the Administrative Agent (an “Extension Election”) on or prior to the date specified in such Term Loan Extension Request of the amount of its Term Existing Class of Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to such Term Loan Extension Request that it has elected to convert into Extended Term Loans; provided that if any Existing Lenders fail to respond, such Existing Lenders will be deemed to have declined to extend their Loans. In the event that the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes subject to Extension Elections exceeds the amount of Extended Term Loans requested pursuant to the Term Loan Extension Request, Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class or Existing Term Loan Classes of Loans subject to Extension Elections shall be converted to Extended Term Loans on a pro rata basis based on the amount of Term the Existing Class of Loans included in each such Extension Election.
(iiic) Extended Term Loans shall be established pursuant to an amendment (an “Extension Amendment”) to this Agreement (which, except to the extent expressly contemplated by the last sentence of this Section 2.15(a)(iii) and notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in Section 13.1, shall not require the consent of any Lender other than the Extending Lenders with respect to the Extended Term Loans established thereby) executed by the Credit Parties, the Administrative Agent and the Extending Lenders. No Extension Amendment shall provide for any Class tranche of Extended Term Loans in an aggregate principal amount that is less than $10,000,000 and 25,000,000 (unless the Borrower may condition the effectiveness of any Extension Amendment on an Extension Minimum Condition, which may be waived by the Borrower in its sole discretionAdministrative Agent shall agree to a lesser amount). In addition to any terms and changes required or permitted by Section 2.15(a3.1(a), each Extension Amendment (x) shall amend the scheduled amortization payments pursuant to Section 2.5 2.14 or the applicable Extension Amendment Joinder Agreement with respect to the Existing Term Loan Class from which the Extended Term Loans were converted to reduce each scheduled Repayment Amount amortization payment for the Existing Term Loan Class in the same proportion as the amount of Term Loans of the Existing Term Loan Class is to be that shall have been converted pursuant to such Extension Amendment Amendment; (it being understood that y) may, but shall not be required to, impose additional requirements (not inconsistent with the amount provisions of any Repayment Amount payable this Agreement in effect at such time) with respect to any individual Term Loan the final maturity and Weighted Average Life to Maturity of Incremental Loans incurred following the date of such Existing Term Loan Class that is not an Extended Term Loan shall not be reduced as a result thereof)Extension Amendment. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.15, 3.1 and without limiting the generality or applicability of Section 13.1 to any Section 2.15(a3.1 Additional Amendments (as defined below) Additional Amendmentsor any of the consents or votes of the Required Lenders, all affected Lenders or all Lenders that may be required pursuant to Section 13.1, any Extension Amendment may provide for additional terms and/or additional amendments other than those referred to or contemplated above (any such additional amendment, a “Section 2.15(a) 3.1 Additional Amendment”) to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents; provided that such Section 2.15(a) 3.1 Additional Amendments comply with are within the requirements of Section 2.15(a3.1(a) and do not become effective prior to the time that such Section 2.15(a) 3.1 Additional Amendments have been consented to (including, without limitation, pursuant to (1) consents applicable to holders of Incremental Term Loans provided for in any Incremental Joinder Agreement and Refinancing Loans provided for in any Refinancing Amendment and (2) consents applicable to holders of any Extended Term Loans provided for in any Extension Amendment) by such of the Lenders, Credit Parties and other parties (if any) as may be required in order for such Section 2.15(a) 3.1 Additional Amendments to become effective in accordance with Section 13.1.
(ivd) Notwithstanding anything The effectiveness of any Extension Amendment shall be subject to the contrary contained in this Agreement, satisfaction on any the date on which any Existing Term Loan Class is converted to extend the related scheduled maturity date(s) in accordance with paragraph (a) above, in the case thereof of each of the existing Term Loans of each Extending Lender, the aggregate principal amount of such existing Term Loans shall be deemed reduced by an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of Extended Term Loans so converted by such Lender on such date. Any Extended Term Loans shall constitute a separate Class of Term Loans from the Existing Term Loan Class from which they were converted; provided that any Extended Term Loans converted from an Existing Term Loan Class mayconditions set forth in Section 3.1(a) and, to the extent provided reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, receipt by the Administrative Agent of (i) items similar to those in the applicable Extension AmendmentSections 6.3, be designated as an increase in any then outstanding Class of Term Loans other than the Existing Term Loan Class from which such Extended Term Loans were converted (in which case scheduled amortization 6.8, 6.11 and 6.13 with respect thereto shall be proportionally increased).
(v) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15(a) any Extension Amendment (including, for with references to the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees, or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans on such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any pro rata payment or amendment section) or any other Credit Document that may otherwise prohibit or restrict any such extension or any other transaction contemplated Closing Date being replaced by this Section 2.15(a).
(vi) In the event that the Administrative Agent determines, and the Borrower agrees (acting reasonably), that the allocation of Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series to a given Lender was incorrectly determined as a result of manifest administrative error in the receipt and processing of an Extension Election timely submitted by such Lender in accordance with the procedures set forth in the applicable Extension Amendment, then the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such affected Lender may (and hereby are authorized to), in their sole discretion and without the consent of any other Lender, enter into an amendment to this Agreement and the other Credit Documents (each, a “Corrective Extension Amendment”) within 15 days following the effective date of such Extension Amendment, ) (it being understood that any such items that are substantially consistent with those delivered on the Closing Date shall be satisfactory) and (ii) reaffirmation agreements and/or such amendments to the Security Documents as may be reasonably requested by the case may be, which Corrective Extension Amendment shall (A) provide for Collateral Agent in order to ensure that the conversion and extension Extended Loans are provided with the benefit of the applicable Term Loans in such amount as is required to cause such Lender to hold Extended Term Loans Credit Documents. Each exercise of the applicable Extension Series into which such other Term Loans were initially converted, as the case may be, extension feature referred to in this Section 3.1 shall result in the amount such Lender would have held had such administrative error not occurred Extended Loans and had such Lender received the minimum allocation Existing Class each being deemed a separate Class of the applicable Term Loans or Commitments to which it was entitled under the terms of such Extension Amendment, in the absence of such error, (B) be subject to the satisfaction of such conditions as the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and such Lender may agree (including conditions of the type required to be satisfied for the effectiveness of an Extension Amendment described in Section 2.15(a))Loans, and (C) effect such other amendments any Class of the type (with appropriate reference and nomenclature changes) described Loans may thereafter be extended in Section 2.15(a) whole or in part pursuant to the extent reasonably necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Section 2.15(a)(vi3.1 (whether or not such Class had previously been offered an extension pursuant to this Section 3.1).
(vii) No conversion of Term Loans or Commitments pursuant to any Extension Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.15(a) shall constitute a voluntary or mandatory payment or prepayment for purposes of this Agreement.
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