Security and Financial Indebtedness (a) No Security or Quasi-Security exists over all or any of the present or future assets of any member of the Group other than as permitted by this Agreement.
(b) No member of the Group has any Financial Indebtedness outstanding other than as permitted by this Agreement.
Financial Indebtedness (a) No Obligor shall (and the Company shall ensure that no other member of the Group will) incur (or agree to incur) or have outstanding any Financial Indebtedness.
(b) Paragraph (a) above does not apply to:
(i) Financial Indebtedness referred to in paragraph (b) of Clause 23.6 (Loans and guarantees);
(ii) Financial Indebtedness arising under the Finance Documents;
(iii) any Financial Indebtedness of a company which becomes a member of the Group after the date of this Agreement, where the Financial Indebtedness is incurred prior to the date on which that company becomes a member of the Group if:
(A) the Financial Indebtedness was not incurred in contemplation of the acquisition of that company;
(B) the Financial Indebtedness is repaid, prepaid or cancelled in full within [***] of that company becoming a member of the Group;
(iv) any Financial Indebtedness permitted under Clause 23.19 (Hedging);
(v) any Financial Indebtedness to the extent covered by a guarantee, bond or letter of credit issued under an Ancillary Facility;
(vi) Permitted Existing Financial Indebtedness;
(vii) Financial Indebtedness arising from the issuance or issuances of one or more convertible or regular bonds with an aggregate maximum subscription amount not exceeding EUR [***] provided that:
(A) any such bond issued is unsecured;
(B) any such bond ranks pari passu with, or subordinated to the Facilities; and
(C) the proceeds are applied in accordance with Clause 9.5 (Capital Market Issue Proceeds) and Clause 9.8 (Application of Capital Market Issue Proceeds); and
(viii) any Financial Indebtedness (other than falling within paragraph (g) of the definition of Financial Indebtedness) provided that any Financial Indebtedness referred to in paragraphs (h) or (j) of the definition of Financial Indebtedness shall only be counted once for this purpose) not falling within paragraphs (i) to (vi) above, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of which across the Group does not at any time exceed [***] (or its equivalent in another currency or currencies).
Reaffirmation of Credit Party Obligations Each Credit Party hereby ratifies the Credit Agreement and acknowledges and reaffirms (a) that it is bound by all terms of the Credit Agreement applicable to it and (b) that it is responsible for the observance and full performance of its respective Credit Party Obligations.
Indebtedness Create, incur, assume, or be liable for any Indebtedness, or permit any Subsidiary to do so, other than Permitted Indebtedness.
Investments; Indebtedness PNU shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, other than in connection with actions permitted by Section 4.1(e), (i) make any loans, advances or capital contributions to, or investments in, any other Person, other than (x) by PNU or a direct or indirect wholly owned Subsidiary of PNU to or in PNU or any direct or indirect wholly owned Subsidiary of PNU, (y) pursuant to any contract or other legal obligation of PNU or any of its Subsidiaries as in effect at the date of this Agreement or (z) in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice in an aggregate amount not in excess of the aggregate amount specified in Section 4.1(g) of the PNU Disclosure Schedule or (ii) create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any indebtedness, issuances of debt securities, guarantees, loans or advances not in existence as of the date of this Agreement except pursuant to the credit facilities, indentures (but not in excess of amounts authorized for issuance thereunder as of the date of this Agreement) and other arrangements in existence on the date of this Agreement or trade debt and commercial finance in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, in each case as such credit facilities, indentures and other arrangements and other existing indebtedness may be amended, extended, modified, refunded, renewed or refinanced after the date of this Agreement which does not increase the aggregate principal amount or amount of the facility, as the case may be.
Guaranteed Indebtedness No Credit Party shall create, incur, assume or permit to exist any Guaranteed Indebtedness except (a) by endorsement of instruments or items of payment for deposit to the general account of any Credit Party, and (b) for Guaranteed Indebtedness incurred for the benefit of any other Credit Party if the primary obligation is expressly permitted by this Agreement.
Investments, Loans, Advances, Guarantees and Acquisitions The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, purchase, hold or acquire (including pursuant to any merger with any Person that was not a wholly owned Subsidiary prior to such merger) any capital stock, evidences of indebtedness or other securities (including any option, warrant or other right to acquire any of the foregoing) of, make or permit to exist any loans or advances to, Guarantee any obligations of, or make or permit to exist any investment or any other interest in, any other Person, or purchase or otherwise acquire (in one transaction or a series of transactions) any assets of any other Person constituting a business unit, except:
(a) Permitted Investments;
(b) Permitted Acquisitions;
(c) investments by the Borrower in any Guarantor and by any Guarantor in any other Guarantor; provided that the Equity Interests evidencing such investments have been pledged in favour of the Administrative Agent and the certificates evidencing such Equity Interests have been delivered to the Administrative Agent together with stock transfer powers (executed in blank) with respect to same;
(d) direct and indirect investments existing on the date hereof by the Borrower in any Subsidiary which is not a Guarantor; provided that such investments are identified on Schedule 3.17;
(e) investments in existence on the date of this Agreement and described in Schedule 6.04;
(f) loans or advances made by the Borrower to any Subsidiary and made by any Subsidiary to the Borrower or any Subsidiary, provided that (A) in the case of loans or advances from Loan Parties to Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties, such loans and advances are made in the ordinary course of business and consistent with past practices and (B) the amount of such loans and advances made by Loan Parties to Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties (together with outstanding Guarantees permitted under the proviso to Section 6.04(g)) shall not exceed $40,000,000 at any time outstanding (in each case determined without regard to any write-downs or write-offs);
(g) Guarantees constituting Indebtedness permitted by Section 6.01, provided that (A) in the case of Guarantees by Loan Parties of Indebtedness of Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties, such Guarantees are entered into in the ordinary course of business and consistent with past practices, and (B) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties that is guaranteed by any Loan Party shall (together with outstanding intercompany loans permitted under the proviso to Section 6.04(f)) shall not exceed $40,000,000 at any time outstanding (in each case determined without regard to any write-downs or write-offs);
(h) investments in the form of Swap Agreements permitted by Section 6.07;
(i) investments constituting minority equity interests in Persons other than Subsidiaries of the Borrower not exceeding $25,000,000; and
(j) other investments not exceeding $5,000,000 at any time.
Litigation and Contingent Obligations There is no litigation, arbitration, governmental investigation, proceeding or inquiry pending or, to the knowledge of any of their officers, threatened against or affecting the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or which seeks to prevent, enjoin or delay the making of any Loans. Other than any liability incident to any litigation, arbitration or proceeding which could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, the Borrower has no material contingent obligations not provided for or disclosed in the financial statements referred to in Section 5.4.
Additional Indebtedness So long as the Notes are outstanding the Depositor will not incur any debt other than debt that (i) is non-recourse to the assets of the Depositor other than the mortgage loans specifically pledged as security for the debt, (ii) is subordinated in right of payment to the rights of the Noteholders, or (iii) is assigned a rating by each of the Rating Agencies that is the same as the then current rating of the Notes.
Guaranty of the Obligations Subject to the provisions of Section 7.2, Guarantors jointly and severally hereby irrevocably and unconditionally guaranty to Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of the Beneficiaries the due and punctual payment in full of all Obligations when the same shall become due, whether at stated maturity, by required prepayment, declaration, acceleration, demand or otherwise (including amounts that would become due but for the operation of the automatic stay under Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. § 362(a)) (collectively, the “Guaranteed Obligations”).