Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank of any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Lender (each such Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C Participant”), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing Bank, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage, in each Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto. (b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank has examined the documents with reasonable care and (iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction), shall not create for such Issuing Bank any resulting liability. (c) In the event that an Issuing Bank makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower shall not have repaid such amount in full to such Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 3.4(a), such Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify each L/C Participant) of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available funds. Each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank in immediately available funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoing. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of any such payment. (d) Whenever an Issuing Bank receives a payment in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate. (e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank with respect to Letters of Credit shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances: (i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents; (ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank, any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit); (iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect; (iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or (v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or (vi) any other event, condition of circumstance, whether or not similar to the foregoing.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (California Resources Corp), Credit Agreement (Vine Energy Inc.), Credit Agreement (Vine Energy Inc.)
Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank of any Letter of Credit (and on the Closing Date, with respect to the Existing Letters of Credit), such Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Lender (each such Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C Participant”), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing Bank, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage, in each Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank has examined the documents with reasonable care and (iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction)misconduct, shall not create for such Issuing Bank any resulting liability.
(c) In the event that an Issuing Bank makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower shall not have repaid such amount (calculated, in the case of Alternate Currency Letters of Credit, based on the Dollar Equivalent thereof) in full to such Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 3.4(a), such Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify and each L/C Participant) Participant of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available funds; provided, however, that no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by such Issuing Bank under any such Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of such Issuing Bank. Each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank in immediately available funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoing. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an Issuing Bank receives a payment in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank with respect to Letters of Credit shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank, any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) any other eventprovided, condition of circumstancehowever, whether or not similar that no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the foregoingAdministrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by such Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence on the part of such Issuing Bank.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Athlon Energy Inc.), Credit Agreement (Athlon Energy Inc.), Credit Agreement (MBOW Four Star, L.L.C.)
Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer of any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Revolving Lender (each such Revolving Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C Participant”), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Revolving Commitment Percentage, in each Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer has examined the documents with reasonable care and (iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction)misconduct, shall not create for such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer any resulting liability.
(c) In the event that an Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower shall not have repaid such amount in full to such Issuing Bank the respective Letter of Credit Issuer pursuant to Section 3.4(a), such Issuing Bank or if any reimbursement payment is required to be refunded to the Borrower, the Letter of Credit Issuer shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify and each L/C Participant) Participant of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, the amount of such L/C Participant’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available funds; provided, however, that no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Letter of Credit Issuer its Revolving Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by the Letter of Credit Issuer under any such Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of the Letter of Credit Issuer (as determined in a final and non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction). Each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer such L/C Participant’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer in immediately available funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Revolving Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing BankLetter of Credit Issuer, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer in connection with the foregoing. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer its Revolving Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer its Revolving Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer receives a payment in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Revolving Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank a Letter of Credit Issuer with respect to Letters of Credit shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) any other eventprovided, condition of circumstancehowever, whether or not similar that no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the foregoingAdministrative Agent for the account of the Letter of Credit Issuer its Revolving Commitment Percentage of any unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by the Letter of Credit Issuer under a Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence on the part of the Letter of Credit Issuer (as determined in a final and non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction).
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Samples: Credit Agreement (California Resources Corp), Credit Agreement (California Resources Corp), Credit Agreement (California Resources Corp)
Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank of any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Lender (each such Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C Participant”), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing Bank, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage, in each Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank has examined the documents with reasonable care and (iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdictionjurisdiction by final, non-appealable judgment), shall not create for such Issuing Bank any resulting liability.
(c) In the event that an Issuing Bank makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower shall not have repaid such amount in full to such Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 3.4(a), such Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify and each L/C Participant) Participant of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available funds; provided, however, that no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by such Issuing Bank under any such Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of such Issuing Bank, as determined by a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction. Each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City Houston, Texas time) on the first Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank in immediately available funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoing. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an Issuing Bank receives a payment in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank with respect to Letters of Credit shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank, any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default, Event of Default or Event of DefaultBorrowing Base Deficiency; or
(vi) any other eventprovided, condition of circumstancehowever, whether or not similar that no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the foregoingAdministrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by such Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of such Issuing Bank, as determined by a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Mach Natural Resources Lp), Credit Agreement (Mach Natural Resources Lp), Credit Agreement (Mach Natural Resources Lp)
Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank Lender of any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Bank Lender shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Lender, and each such Lender (each such Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.33.04, an a “L/C Participant”), and each such L/C Participant ) shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing BankLender, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”)participation, to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment RL Percentage, in each such Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing or payment made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower U.S. Borrowers or the Dutch Borrowers, as the case may be, under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto. Upon any change in the Revolving Loan Commitments or RL Percentages of the Lenders pursuant to Section 2.13, 2.14, 2.15 or 13.04(b), it is hereby agreed that, with respect to all outstanding Letters of Credit and Unpaid Drawings relating thereto, there shall be an automatic adjustment to the participations pursuant to this Section 3.04 to reflect the new RL Percentages of the assignor and assignee Lender, as the case may be.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant no Issuing Bank Lender shall have no any obligation relative to the L/C Participants other Lenders other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit appear to have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank has examined the documents with reasonable care delivered and (iii) the documents that they appear to substantially comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant an Issuing Bank Lender under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by itit shall not create for such Issuing Lender any resulting liability to any Borrower, if any other Credit Party, any Lender or any other Person unless such action is taken or omitted in the absence of to be taken with gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of such Issuing Lender (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdictionjurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision), shall not create for such Issuing Bank any resulting liability.
(c) In the event that an Issuing Bank Lender makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower U.S. Borrowers or the Dutch Borrowers, as applicable, shall not have repaid reimbursed such amount in full to such Issuing Bank Lender pursuant to Section 3.4(a3.05(a), such Issuing Bank Lender shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (Agent, which shall promptly notify each L/C Participant) Participant of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, Lender the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment RL Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in U.S. Dollars (or, in the case of any unreimbursed payment made in Euros or an Acceptable Foreign Currency, such currency) and in immediately available same day funds. Each L/C If the Administrative Agent so notifies, prior to 2:00 P.M. (New York City time) on any Business Day, any Participant required to fund a payment under a Letter of Credit, such Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for respective Issuing Lender in U.S. Dollars (or, in the account case of the relevant Issuing Bank any unreimbursed payment made in Euros or an Acceptable Foreign Currency, such L/C currency) such Participant’s Commitment RL Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first such Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank in immediately available same day funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Commitment RL Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant respective Issuing BankLender, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing BankLender, forthwith on demand, demand such amount, together with interest thereon thereon, for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to such Issuing Lender at the Administrative Agent overnight Federal Funds Rate (or, in the case of any unreimbursed payment made in a currency other than U.S. Dollars, at the respective Issuing Lender’s customary rate for interbank advances) for the account of such Issuing Bank first three days and at a the interest rate per annum equal applicable to the Overnight U.S. Dollar Denominated Revolving Loans that are maintained as Base Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoingLoans for each day thereafter. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any an Issuing Bank Lender its Commitment RL Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing Lender shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank Lender its Commitment RL Percentage of any payment under such any Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such Issuing Lender such other L/C Participant’s Commitment RL Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an Issuing Bank Lender receives a payment in respect of an unpaid a reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent it has received for the account of such Issuing Bank any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C such Participant that which has paid its Commitment RL Percentage of such reimbursement obligationthereof, in U.S. Dollars (or, in the case of any unreimbursed payment made in Euros or an Acceptable Foreign Currency, such currency) and in immediately available same day funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rateparticipations.
(e) Upon the request of any Participant, each Issuing Lender shall furnish to such Participant copies of any standby Letter of Credit issued by it and such other documentation as may reasonably be requested by such Participant.
(f) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an each Issuing Bank Lender with respect to Letters of Credit shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-offsetoff, defense or other right that which the Borrower Company or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) of its Subsidiaries may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing BankParticipant, or any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower Company or any Subsidiary of the Company and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) , or the failure of any of the other event, condition of circumstance, whether conditions specified in Section 6 or not similar 7 to the foregoingbe satisfied.
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Samples: Abl Credit Agreement (Tesla, Inc.), Abl Credit Agreement (Tesla Motors Inc)
Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon By the issuance by an of a Letter of Credit and without any further action on the part of the Issuing Bank of any Letter of Creditor the Banks in respect thereof, such the Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have sold and transferred hereby grants to each Lender (each such Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C Participant”)Bank, and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received Bank hereby acquires from such the Issuing Bank, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and a participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage, in each Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit equal to such Bank's Commitment percentage of the Total Commitment, based upon the Commitments in effect at the time of any drawing thereunder (or, if the Commitments shall have been deliveredterminated pursuant to Article VII, (ii) the Commitments in effect immediately prior to such Issuing Bank has examined termination), of the documents with reasonable care and (iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements amount of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted , effective upon the issuance of such Letter of Credit; provided, however, that no Bank shall be required to be taken by acquire participations in Letters of Credit that would result in its pro rata percentage, based upon its Commitment, of the relevant Issuing Bank under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by itBalance exceeding its Commitment. In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction), shall not create for such Issuing each Bank any resulting liability.
(c) In the event that an Issuing Bank makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower shall not have repaid such amount in full to such Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 3.4(a), such Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify each L/C Participant) of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly hereby absolutely and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available funds. Each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank in immediately available funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent Agent, for the account of such the Issuing Bank, forthwith on demandin accordance with Section 2.25 below, such amount, together with interest thereon for Bank's pro rata percentage of each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoing. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under any unreimbursed Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to Disbursement made by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of any such paymentBank.
(db) Whenever an Issuing Each Bank receives a payment acknowledges and agrees that its acquisition of participations pursuant to paragraph (a) above in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank with respect to Letters of Credit is absolute and unconditional and shall not be irrevocable affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including without limitation the occurrence and not subject to counterclaimcontinuance of any Event of Default hereunder, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and that each such payment shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever; provided that nothing herein shall constitute a waiver of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any rights a Bank may have by reason of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity gross negligence or enforceability of this Agreement or any wilful misconduct of the other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank, any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) any other event, condition of circumstance, whether or not similar to the foregoing.
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Samples: Modification Agreement (Evans Withycombe Residential Inc), Modification Agreement (Evans Withycombe Residential Lp)
Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon All Obligations of the issuance by an Issuing Bank Company and the Guarantors with respect to all Existing Letters of any Letter Credit and all Letters of Credit, such Issuing Bank Credit issued subsequent hereto shall be deemed to have been sold and transferred by the Issuing Bank to each Lender (each such Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C Participant”)Bank, and each such L/C Participant Bank shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such the Issuing Bank, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation participation, (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage, Bank's percentage participation in the Commitments) in each Letter of Creditsuch Obligation, each substitute thereforletter of credit, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower Company under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining theretothereto including the Guaranty.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant The Issuing Bank shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants Banks other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit appear to have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank has examined the documents with reasonable care delivered and (iii) the documents that they appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction), shall not create for such Issuing Bank any resulting liability.
(c) In the event that an the Issuing Bank makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued Credit, the same shall be considered an Alternate Base Rate Advance without further action by it and the Borrower shall not have repaid such amount in full to such Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 3.4(a), such any Person. The Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (Agent, which shall promptly notify each L/C Participant) of such failure, and each such L/C Participant Bank thereof. Each Bank shall promptly and unconditionally immediately pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available funds. Each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first Business Day after the date notified by Bank's percentage participation of such Issuing Bank in immediately available fundsAdvance. If and to the extent such L/C Participant any Bank shall not have so made its Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment percentage participation available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing BankAgent, such L/C Participant Bank agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bankinterest thereon, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid at the lesser of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and the Highest Lawful Rate.
(d) The Issuing Bank shall not be liable for, and the obligations of the Company and the Banks to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoing. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an Issuing Bank receives a payment in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank with respect to Letters of Credit shall not be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaimto, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstanceswhatsoever, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Loan Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-offsetoff, defense or other right that which the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) Company may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting)Credit, the Administrative Agent, any the Issuing Bank, any Lender Bank, or any other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower Company and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any the Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Loan Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or.
(vie) THE ISSUING BANK SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION OR DELAY IN TRANSMISSION, DISPATCH OR DELIVERY OF ANY MESSAGE OR ADVICE, HOWEVER TRANSMITTED, IN CONNECTION WITH ANY LETTER OF CREDIT, EXCEPT FOR ERRORS OR OMISSIONS CAUSED BY THE ISSUING BANK'S GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT. IT IS THE EXPRESS INTENTION OF THE PARTIES HERETO THAT THE ISSUING BANK, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS SHALL BE INDEMNIFIED AND HELD HARMLESS FROM ANY ACTION TAKEN OR OMITTED BY SUCH PERSON UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY LETTER OF CREDIT OR ANY RELATED DRAFT OR DOCUMENT ARISING OUT OF OR RESULTING FROM SUCH PERSON'S SOLE OR CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE. The Company agrees that any other eventaction taken or omitted by the Issuing Bank under or in connection with any Letter of Credit or the related drafts or documents, condition if done in accordance with the standards of circumstancecare specified in the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (1993 Revision), whether or not similar International Chamber of Commerce, Publication No. 500 (and any subsequent revisions thereof approved by a Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce and adhered to by the Issuing Bank) and, to the foregoingextent not inconsistent therewith, the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of Texas, shall not result in any liability of the Issuing Bank to the Company.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Group Maintenance America Corp), Credit Agreement (Group Maintenance America Corp)
Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank of any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Lender (each such Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C Participant”), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing Bank, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage, in each Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank has examined the documents with reasonable care and (iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction), shall not create for such Issuing Bank any resulting liability.
(c) In the event that an Issuing Bank makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower shall not have repaid such amount in full to such Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 3.4(a), such Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify each L/C Participant) of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available funds. Each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first (1st) Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank in immediately available funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoing. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an Issuing Bank receives a payment in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank with respect to Letters of Credit shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank, any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) any other event, condition of circumstance, whether or not similar to the foregoing.
Appears in 2 contracts
Samples: Credit Agreement (Infinity Natural Resources, Inc.), Credit Agreement (California Resources Corp)
Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank of any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Lender (each such Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C Participant”), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing Bank, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage, in each Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants other than to confirm that that
(i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered, ,
(ii) such Issuing Bank has examined the documents with reasonable care and and
(iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction)misconduct, shall not create for such Issuing Bank any resulting liability.
(c) In the event that an Issuing Bank makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower shall not have repaid such amount in full to such Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 3.4(a), or if any reimbursement payment is required to be refunded to the Borrower, such Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify and each L/C Participant) Participant of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, Bank the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available funds; provided, however, that no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by such Issuing Bank under any such Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence on the part of such Issuing Bank. Each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City Fort Worth, Texas time) on the first Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank in immediately available funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoing. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an Issuing Bank receives a payment in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation Reimbursement Obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligationReimbursement Obligation, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation Reimbursement Obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank with respect to Letters of Credit shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank, any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) any other eventprovided, condition of circumstancehowever, whether or not similar that no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the foregoingAdministrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by such Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence on the part of such Issuing Bank.
Appears in 2 contracts
Samples: Credit Agreement (Kimbell Royalty Partners, LP), Credit Agreement (Kimbell Royalty Partners, LP)
Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank All Letters of any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Bank Credit issued subsequent hereto shall be deemed to have been sold and transferred by the Issuing Bank to each Lender (each such Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C Participant”)Bank, and each such L/C Participant Bank shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such the Issuing Bank, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation participation, (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage, Bank's percentage participation in the Commitment) in each such Letter of Credit (including extensions of the expiry date thereof), each substitute Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower Company under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants Banks other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit appear to have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank has examined the documents with reasonable care delivered and (iii) the documents that they appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction), shall not create for such Issuing Bank any resulting liability.
(c) In the event that an the Issuing Bank makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued Credit, the same shall be considered an Alternate Base Rate Advance without further action by it and the Borrower shall not have repaid such amount in full to such Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 3.4(a), such any Person. The Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (Agent, which shall promptly notify each L/C Participant) of such failure, and each such L/C Participant Bank thereof. Each Bank shall promptly and unconditionally immediately pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available funds. Each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first Business Day after the date notified by Lender's percentage participation of such Issuing Bank in immediately available fundsAdvance. If and to the extent such L/C Participant any Bank shall not have so made its Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment percentage participation available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing BankAgent, such L/C Participant Lender agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bankinterest thereon, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid at the lesser of (i) the Federal Funds Effective Rate and (ii) the Highest Lawful Rate.
(d) The Issuing Bank shall not be liable for, and the obligations of the Company and the Banks to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoing. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an Issuing Bank receives a payment in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank with respect to Letters of Credit shall not be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaimto, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstanceswhatsoever, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Loan Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-offsetoff, defense or other right that which the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) Company may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting)Credit, the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank, any Lender Bank, or any other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower Company and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any the Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Loan Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or.
(vie) The Issuing Bank shall not be liable for any other eventerror, condition omission, interruption or delay in transmission, dispatch or delivery of circumstanceany message or advice, whether however transmitted, in connection with any Letter of Credit, except for errors or not similar omissions caused by such Issuing Bank's gross negligence or willful misconduct. IT IS THE EXPRESS INTENTION OF THE PARTIES HERETO THAT SUCH ISSUING BANK, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS (OTHER THAN WITH RESPECT TO ANY CLAIMS BY THE ISSUING BANK AGAINST ANY SUCH OFFICER, DIRECTOR, EMPLOYEE OR AGENT THEREOF) SHALL BE INDEMNIFIED AND HELD HARMLESS FROM, SUBJECT TO THE SAME TYPE OF PROTECTIONS SET FORTH IN SECTION 11.05(B), ANY ACTION TAKEN OR OMITTED BY SUCH PERSON UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY LETTER OF CREDIT OR ANY RELATED DRAFT OR DOCUMENT ARISING OUT OF OR RESULTING FROM SUCH PERSON'S SOLE OR CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE, BUT NOT FROM THE GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL MISCONDUCT OF SUCH PERSON. The Company agrees that any action taken or omitted by the Issuing Bank under or in connection with any Letter of Credit or the related drafts or documents, if done in accordance with the standards of care specified in the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (1993 Revision), International Chamber of Commerce, Publication No. 500 (and any subsequent revisions thereof approved by a Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce and adhered to by the Issuing Bank) and, to the foregoingextent not inconsistent therewith, the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of Texas, shall not result in any liability of the Issuing Bank to the Company.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Comfort Systems Usa Inc), Credit Agreement (Comfort Systems Usa Inc)
Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer of any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each other Lender (each such other Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C Participant”), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage, Percentage in each such Letter of Credit, each substitute thereforletter of credit, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the relevant Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty Guarantee pertaining thereto; provided that the Letter of Credit Fees will be paid directly to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the L/C Participants as provided in Section 4.1(c) and the L/C Participants shall have no right to receive any portion of any Fronting Fees.
(b) In determining whether to pay Each Lender and each Borrower agrees that, in paying any drawing under any a Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer shall not have no obligation relative any responsibility to obtain any document (other than any sight draft, certificates and documents expressly required by the Letter of Credit) or to ascertain or inquire as to the L/C Participants other than validity or accuracy of any such document or the authority of the Person executing or delivering any such document. None of the Letter of Credit Issuer, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties nor any correspondent, participant or assignee of the Letter of Credit Issuer shall be liable to confirm that any Lender for (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank has examined the documents with reasonable care and (iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank under or in connection herewith at the request or with the approval of the Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable; (ii) any Letter of Credit issued by it, if action taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct; or (iii) the due execution, effectiveness, validity or enforceability of any document or instrument related to any Letter of Credit or any other document. The Borrowers hereby assume all risks of the acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee with respect to its use of any Letter of Credit; provided, however, that this assumption is not intended to, and shall not, preclude any Borrower pursuing such rights and remedies as it may have against the beneficiary or transferee at law or under any other agreement. None of the Letter of Credit Issuer, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties nor any correspondent, participant or assignee of the Letter of Credit Issuer shall be liable or responsible for any of the matters described in clauses (i) through (v) of Section 3.3(h); provided, however, that anything in such clauses to the contrary notwithstanding, the relevant Borrower may have a claim against the Letter of Credit Issuer, and the Letter of Credit Issuer may be liable to such Borrower, to the extent, but only to the extent, of any direct, as opposed to consequential or exemplary, damages suffered by such Borrower which were caused by the Letter of Credit Issuer’s willful misconduct (as finally determined or gross negligence or the Letter of Credit Issuer’s willful failure to pay under any Letter of Credit after the presentation to it by the beneficiary of a court sight document strictly complying with the terms and conditions of competent jurisdiction)a Letter of Credit. In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, the Letter of Credit Issuer may accept documents that appear on their face to be in order, without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, and the Letter of Credit Issuer shall not create be responsible for such Issuing Bank the validity or sufficiency of any resulting liabilityinstrument transferring or assigning or purporting to transfer or assign a Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits thereunder or proceeds thereof, in whole or in part, which may prove to be invalid or ineffective for any reason.
(c) In the event that an Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the relevant Borrower shall not have repaid such amount in full to such Issuing Bank the respective Letter of Credit Issuer pursuant to Section 3.4(a)3.4, such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify and each L/C Participant) Participant of such failure, the unreimbursed amount shall be converted to US Dollars and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars so converted and in immediately available funds. Each If the Letter of Credit Issuer so notifies, prior to 11:00 a.m. on any Business Day, each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first such Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank in immediately available funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing BankLetter of Credit Issuer, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer at a rate per annum equal the Federal Funds Effective Rate. A certificate from the relevant Letter of Credit Issuer submitted to any L/C Participant (through the Overnight Rate from time Administrative Agent) with respect to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoingamounts owing under this Section 3.3(c) shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer its Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer its Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an Issuing Bank receives a payment in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank with respect to Letters of Credit shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank, any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) any other event, condition of circumstance, whether or not similar to the foregoing.
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Samples: Revolving Credit Agreement (NXP Semiconductors N.V.)
Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer of any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each other Lender (each such other Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C Participant”), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage, Percentage in each such Letter of Credit, each substitute thereforletter of credit, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the relevant Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty Guarantee pertaining thereto; provided that the Letter of Credit Fees will be paid directly to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the L/C Participants as provided in Section 4.1(b) and the L/C Participants shall have no right to receive any portion of any Fronting Fees.
(b) In determining whether to pay Each Lender and each Borrower agrees that, in paying any drawing under any a Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer shall not have no obligation relative any responsibility to obtain any document (other than any sight draft, certificates and documents expressly required by the Letter of Credit) or to ascertain or inquire as to the L/C Participants other than validity or accuracy of any such document or the authority of the Person executing or delivering any such document. None of the Letter of Credit Issuer, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties nor any correspondent, participant or assignee of the Letter of Credit Issuer shall be liable to confirm that any Lender for (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank has examined the documents with reasonable care and (iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank under or in connection herewith at the request or with the approval of the Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable; (ii) any Letter of Credit issued by it, if action taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct; or (iii) the due execution, effectiveness, validity or enforceability of any document or instrument related to any Letter of Credit or any other document. The Borrowers hereby assume all risks of the acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee with respect to its use of any Letter of Credit; provided, however, that this assumption is not intended to, and shall not, preclude any Borrower pursuing such rights and remedies as it may have against the beneficiary or transferee at law or under any other agreement. None of the Letter of Credit Issuer, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties nor any correspondent, participant or assignee of the Letter of Credit Issuer shall be liable or responsible for any of the matters described in clauses (i) through (v) of Section 3.3(g); provided, however, that anything in such clauses to the contrary notwithstanding, the relevant Borrower may have a claim against the Letter of Credit Issuer, and the Letter of Credit Issuer may be liable to such Borrower, to the extent, but only to the extent, of any direct, as opposed to consequential or exemplary, damages suffered by such Borrower which were caused by the Letter of Credit Issuer’s willful misconduct (as finally determined or gross negligence or the Letter of Credit Issuer’s willful failure to pay under any Letter of Credit after the presentation to it by the beneficiary of a court sight draft and certificate(s) strictly complying with the terms and conditions of competent jurisdiction)a Letter of Credit. In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, the Letter of Credit Issuer may accept documents that appear on their face to be in order, without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, and the Letter of Credit Issuer shall not create be responsible for such Issuing Bank the validity or sufficiency of any resulting liabilityinstrument transferring or assigning or purporting to transfer or assign a Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits thereunder or proceeds thereof, in whole or in part, which may prove to be invalid or ineffective for any reason.
(c) In the event that an Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the relevant Borrower shall not have repaid such amount in full to such Issuing Bank the respective Letter of Credit Issuer pursuant to Section 3.4(a)3.4, such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify and each L/C Participant) Participant of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars the currency in which such payment was made by the Letter of Credit Issuer and in immediately available funds. Each If the Letter of Credit Issuer so notifies, prior to 11:00 a.m. on any Business Day, each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first such Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank in immediately available funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing BankLetter of Credit Issuer, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer at a rate per annum equal the Federal Funds Effective Rate. A certificate from the relevant Letter of Credit Issuer submitted to any L/C Participant (through the Overnight Rate from time Administration Agent) with respect to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoingamounts owing under this Section 3.3(c) shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer its Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer its Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an Issuing Bank receives With respect to any Unpaid Drawing that is not fully reimbursed pursuant to Section 3.4 or refinanced by a payment Borrowing of Loans because the conditions set forth in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as Section 7 cannot be satisfied or for any other reason, the relevant Borrower shall be deemed to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank any payments have incurred from the relevant Letter of Credit Issuer an L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) aboveBorrowing in the amount of the Unpaid Borrowing that is not so refinanced, such Issuing Bank shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each which L/C Participant that has paid its Commitment Percentage of Borrowing shall be due and payable on demand (together with interest) and shall bear interest at the ABR Rate plus the Applicable ABR Margin plus 1% per annum. In such reimbursement obligationevent, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such each L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank with respect to Letters the relevant Letter of Credit Issuer pursuant to Section 3.3(c) shall be irrevocable deemed payment in respect of its participation in such L/C Borrowing and shall constitute an L/C Advance from such Lender in satisfaction of its participation obligation under this Section 3.3.
(e) Each L/C Participant’s obligation to make a Loan or L/C Advances to reimburse a Letter of Credit Issuer for amounts drawn under Letter of Credit, as contemplated by this Section 3.3(c), shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not subject to be affected by any circumstance, including (x) any setoff, counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-offrecoupment, defense or other right that which such L/C Participant may have against the relevant Letter of Credit Issuer, any Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever; (including an L/C Participant) may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank, any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(vy) the occurrence or continuance of any a Default or any Event of Default; or
or (viz) any other eventoccurrence, condition of circumstanceevent or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided that each Lender’s obligation to make Loans pursuant to this Section 3.3(c) is subject to the conditions set forth in Section 7 (other than delivery by the relevant Borrower of a Notice of Borrowing). No such making of an L/C Advance shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the relevant Borrower to reimburse the Letter of Credit Issuer for the amount of any payment made by such Letter of Credit Issuer under any Letter of Credit, together with interest as provided herein.
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Samples: Secured Revolving Credit Agreement (NXP Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd.)
Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank any Letter of Credit Issuer of any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each New Money Lender (each such New Money Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C Participant”), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing BankLetter of Credit Issuer, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage, in each Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing made Drawing thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer has examined the documents with reasonable care and (iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction)misconduct, shall not create for such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer any resulting liabilityliability to the L/C Participants.
(c) In the event that an Issuing Bank any Letter of Credit Issuer makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower shall not have repaid such amount in full to such Issuing Bank the respective Letter of Credit Issuer pursuant to Section 3.4(a), or if any reimbursement payment is required to be refunded to the Borrower, such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify each L/C Participant) of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing BankLetter of Credit Issuer, the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available funds; but no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the Agent for the account of such Letter of Credit Issuer its Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by the Letter of Credit Issuer under any such Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of such Letter of Credit Issuer (as determined in a final and non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction). Each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer in immediately available funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bankapplicable Letter of Credit Issuer, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing BankLetter of Credit Issuer, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer in connection with the foregoing. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank the applicable Letter of Credit Issuer its Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer its Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an Issuing Bank any Letter of Credit Issuer receives a payment in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank a Letter of Credit Issuer with respect to Letters of Credit shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit DocumentsDocument;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein Transactions or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms term of any of the Credit DocumentsDocument; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) any other event, condition of circumstance, whether or not similar but no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the foregoingAgent for the account of any Letter of Credit Issuer its Commitment Percentage of any unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by such Letter of Credit Issuer under a Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence on the part of the Letter of Credit Issuer (as determined in a final and non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction).
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Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon On the issuance by an Issuing Bank of any Letter of CreditEffective Date, such ------------------------------- the A Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Lender Bank with an A Commitment, other than the A Issuing Bank (each such LenderBank, in its capacity under this Section 3.31A.02(a), an “L/C "A Participant”"), and each such L/C A Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such the A Issuing Bank, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”)participation, to the extent of such L/C A Participant’s Commitment Percentage, 's A Percentage in each the A Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing the A Drawing made thereunder (if any) and the obligations of the Borrower Company under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank has examined the documents with reasonable care and (iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant A Issuing Bank under or in connection with any the A Letter of Credit issued by itCredit, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdictionjurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision), shall not create for such the A Issuing Bank any resulting liabilityliability to the Company or any Bank.
(c) In the event that an the A Issuing Bank makes any payment under any the A Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower Company shall not have repaid reimbursed such amount in full to such the A Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 3.4(a1A.03(a), such the A Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent, and the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify each L/C A Participant) , of such failure, and each such L/C A Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such the A Issuing Bank, Bank the amount of such L/C A Participant’s Commitment 's A Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available same day funds. Each L/C If the Administrative Agent so notifies, prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York time) on any Business Day, any A Participant required to fund a payment under the A Letter of Credit, such A Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant such A Issuing Bank in Dollars such L/C A Participant’s Commitment 's A Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first such Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank in immediately available same day funds. If and to the extent such L/C A Participant shall not have so made its Commitment A Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant A Issuing Bank, such L/C A Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such the A Issuing Bank, forthwith on demand, demand such amount, together with interest thereon thereon, for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such the A Issuing Bank at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoingovernight Federal Funds Rate. The failure of any L/C A Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any the A Issuing Bank its Commitment A Percentage of any payment under any the A Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C A Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such the A Issuing Bank its Commitment A Percentage of any payment under such the A Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C A Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C A Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the A Issuing Bank such other L/C A Participant’s Commitment 's A Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an the A Issuing Bank receives a payment in respect of an unpaid a reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such the A Issuing Bank any payments from the L/C A Participants pursuant to clause (c) aboveSection 1A.02(c), such the A Issuing Bank shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C A Participant that which has paid its Commitment A Percentage of such reimbursement obligationthereof, in Dollars and in immediately available same day funds, an amount equal to such L/C A Participant’s 's share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C A Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C A Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at participations or, if less, such A Participant's A Percentage of the Overnight Ratepayment received.
(e) Upon the request of any A Participant, the A Issuing Bank shall furnish to such A Participant a copy of the A Letter of Credit and such other documentation as may reasonably be requested by such A Participant.
(f) The obligations of the L/C A Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an the A Issuing Bank with respect to Letters the A Letter of Credit shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under including, without limitation, any of the following circumstances:
(i1) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit DocumentsAgreement;
(ii2) the existence of any claim, set-offsetoff, defense or other right that which the Borrower Company or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) of its Subsidiaries may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a the A Letter of Credit, any transferee of any the A Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative either Agent, any the A Issuing Bank, any Lender A Participant, or any other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any the A Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower Company or any of its Subsidiaries and the beneficiary named in any such the A Letter of Credit);
(iii3) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any the A Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v4) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) any other event, condition of circumstance, whether or not similar to the foregoing.
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Samples: Letter of Credit and Reimbursement Agreement (R&b Falcon Corp)
Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank any Letter of Credit Issuer of any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Lender (each such Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C Participant”), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing BankLetter of Credit Issuer, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage, in each Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer has examined the documents with reasonable care and (iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction)misconduct, shall not create for such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer any resulting liabilityliability to the L/C Participants.
(c) In the event that an Issuing Bank any Letter of Credit Issuer makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower shall not have repaid such amount in full to such Issuing Bank the respective Letter of Credit Issuer pursuant to Section 3.4(a), or if any reimbursement payment is required to be refunded to the Borrower, such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify and each L/C Participant) Participant of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing BankLetter of Credit Issuer, the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available funds; provided, however, that no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Letter of Credit Issuer its Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by the Letter of Credit Issuer under any such Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of such Letter of Credit Issuer (as determined in a final and non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction). Each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer in immediately available funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bankapplicable Letter of Credit Issuer, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing BankLetter of Credit Issuer, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer in connection with the foregoing. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank the applicable Letter of Credit Issuer its Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer its Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an Issuing Bank any Letter of Credit Issuer receives a payment in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank a Letter of Credit Issuer with respect to Letters of Credit shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) any other event10-Q provided, condition of circumstancehowever, whether or not similar that no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the foregoingAdministrative Agent for the account of any Letter of Credit Issuer its Commitment Percentage of any unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by such Letter of Credit Issuer under a Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence on the part of the Letter of Credit Issuer (as determined in a final and non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction).
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Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank of any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Revolving Lender (each such Revolving Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C Participant”), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing Bank, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Revolving Commitment Percentage, in each Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank has examined the documents with reasonable care and (iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction), shall not create for such Issuing Bank any resulting liability.
(c) In the event that an Issuing Bank makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower shall not have repaid such amount in full to such Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 3.4(a), such Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify each L/C Participant) of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, the amount of such L/C Participant’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available funds. Each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank such L/C Participant’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first (1st) Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank in immediately available funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Revolving Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoing. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank its Revolving Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank its Revolving Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an Issuing Bank receives a payment in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Revolving Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank with respect to Letters of Credit shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank, any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) any other event, condition of circumstance, whether or not similar to the foregoing.
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Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer of any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Revolving Lender (each such Revolving Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C Participant”), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Revolving Commitment Percentage, in each Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer has examined the documents with reasonable care and (iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction)misconduct, shall not create for such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer any resulting liability.
(c) In the event that an Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower shall not have repaid such amount in full to such Issuing Bank the respective Letter of Credit Issuer pursuant to Section 3.4(a), such Issuing Bank or if any reimbursement payment is required to be refunded to the Borrower, the Letter of Credit Issuer shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify and each L/C Participant) Participant of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, the amount of such L/C Participant’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available funds; provided, however, that no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Letter of Credit Issuer its Revolving Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by the Letter of Credit Issuer under any such Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of the Letter of Credit Issuer (as determined in a final and non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction). Each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer such L/C Participant’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer in immediately available funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Revolving Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing BankLetter of Credit Issuer, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer in connection with the foregoing. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer its Revolving Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer its Revolving Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer receives a payment in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Revolving Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank a Letter of Credit Issuer with respect to Letters of Credit shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents;
; (ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) any other event, condition of circumstance, whether or not similar to the foregoing.
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Samples: Credit Agreement
Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank of any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Lender (each such Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C Participant”), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing Bank, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage, in each Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank has examined the documents with reasonable care and (iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction), shall not create for such Issuing Bank any resulting liability.
(c) In the event that an Issuing Bank makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower shall not have repaid such amount in full to such Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 3.4(a), such Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify and each L/C Participant) Participant of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available funds. Each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank in immediately available funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoing. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an Issuing Bank receives a payment in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank with respect to Letters of Credit shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank, any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) any other event, condition of circumstance, whether or not similar to the foregoing.
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Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an the respective Issuing Bank of any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Lender Bank with a Revolving Loan Commitment, other than such Issuing Bank (each such LenderBank, in its capacity under this Section 3.32.04, an “L/C a "Participant”"), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing Bank, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage, in each Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto.have
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant respective Issuing Bank shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants other Banks other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit appear to have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank has examined the documents with reasonable care delivered and (iii) the documents that they appear to substantially comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant any Issuing Bank under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction)misconduct, shall not create for such Issuing Bank any resulting liabilityliability to the Borrower, any other Credit Party, any Bank or any other Person.
(c) In the event that an any Issuing Bank makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower shall not have repaid reimbursed such amount in full to such Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 3.4(a2.05(a), such Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (Agent, which shall promptly notify each L/C Participant) Participant of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, Bank the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment 's Adjusted RL Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available same day funds. Each L/C If the Administrative Agent so notifies, prior to 11:00 A.M. (New York time) on any Business Day, any Participant required to fund a payment under a Letter of Credit, such Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant such Issuing Bank in Dollars such L/C Participant’s Commitment 's Adjusted RL Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first such Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank in immediately available same day funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Commitment Adjusted RL Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant such Issuing Bank, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, forthwith on demand, demand such amount, together with interest thereon thereon, for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank at a the overnight Federal Funds Rate for the first three days and at the interest rate per annum equal applicable to the Overnight Revolving Loans maintained as Base Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoingLoans for each day thereafter. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any such Issuing Bank its Commitment Adjusted RL Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank its Commitment Adjusted RL Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such Issuing Bank such other L/C Participant’s Commitment 's Adjusted RL Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an Issuing Bank receives a payment in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank with respect to Letters of Credit shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank, any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) any other event, condition of circumstance, whether or not similar to the foregoing.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Doubletree Corp)
Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer of any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each other Lender (each such other Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C Participant”), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage, Percentage in each such Letter of Credit, each substitute thereforletter of credit, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the relevant Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty Guarantee pertaining thereto; provided that the Letter of Credit Fees will be paid directly to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the L/C Participants as provided in Section 4.1(b) and the L/C Participants shall have no right to receive any portion of any Fronting Fees.
(b) In determining whether to pay Each Lender and each Borrower agrees that, in paying any drawing under any a Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer shall not have no obligation relative any responsibility to obtain any document (other than any sight draft, certificates and documents expressly required by the Letter of Credit) or to ascertain or inquire as to the L/C Participants other than validity or accuracy of any such document or the authority of the Person executing or delivering any such document. None of the Letter of Credit Issuer, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties nor any correspondent, participant or assignee of the Letter of Credit Issuer shall be liable to confirm that any Lender for (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank has examined the documents with reasonable care and (iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank under or in connection herewith at the request or with the approval of the Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable; (ii) any Letter of Credit issued by it, if action taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct; or (iii) the due execution, effectiveness, validity or enforceability of any document or instrument related to any Letter of Credit or any other document. The Borrowers hereby assume all risks of the acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee with respect to its use of any Letter of Credit; provided, however, that this assumption is not intended to, and shall not, preclude any Borrower pursuing such rights and remedies as it may have against the beneficiary or transferee at law or under any other agreement. None of the Letter of Credit Issuer, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties nor any correspondent, participant or assignee of the Letter of Credit Issuer shall be liable or responsible for any of the matters described in clauses (i) through (v) of Section 3.3(g); provided, however, that anything in such clauses to the contrary notwithstanding, the relevant Borrower may have a claim against the Letter of Credit Issuer, and the Letter of Credit Issuer may be liable to such Borrower, to the extent, but only to the extent, of any direct, as opposed to consequential or exemplary, damages suffered by such Borrower which were caused by the Letter of Credit Issuer’s willful misconduct (as finally determined or gross negligence or the Letter of Credit Issuer’s willful failure to pay under any Letter of Credit after the presentation to it by the beneficiary of a court sight draft and certificate(s) strictly complying with the terms and conditions of competent jurisdiction)a Letter of Credit. In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, the Letter of Credit Issuer may accept documents that appear on their face to be in order, without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, and the Letter of Credit Issuer shall not create be responsible for such Issuing Bank the validity or sufficiency of any resulting liabilityinstrument transferring or assigning or purporting to transfer or assign a Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits thereunder or proceeds thereof, in whole or in part, which may prove to be invalid or ineffective for any reason.
(c) In the event that an Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the relevant Borrower shall not have repaid such amount in full to such Issuing Bank the respective Letter of Credit Issuer pursuant to Section 3.4(a)3.4, such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify and each L/C Participant) Participant of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars the currency in which such payment was made by the Letter of Credit Issuer and in immediately available funds. Each If the Letter of Credit Issuer so notifies, prior to 11:00 a.m. on any Business Day, each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first such Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank in immediately available funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing BankLetter of Credit Issuer, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer at a rate per annum equal the Federal Funds Effective Rate. A certificate from the relevant Letter of Credit Issuer submitted to any L/C Participant (through the Overnight Rate from time Administration Agent) with respect to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoingamounts owing under this Section 3.3(c) shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer its Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer its Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an Issuing Bank receives With respect to any Unpaid Drawing that is not fully reimbursed pursuant to Section 3.4 or refinanced by a payment Borrowing of Loans because the conditions set forth in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as Section 7 cannot be satisfied or for any other reason, the relevant Borrower shall be deemed to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank any payments have incurred from the relevant Letter of Credit Issuer an L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) aboveBorrowing in the amount of the Unpaid Borrowing that is not so refinanced, such Issuing Bank shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each which L/C Participant that has paid its Commitment Percentage of Borrowing shall be due and payable on demand (together with interest) and shall bear interest at the ABR Rate plus the Applicable ABR Margin plus 1% per annum. In such reimbursement obligationevent, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such each L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank with respect to Letters the relevant Letter of Credit Issuer pursuant to Section 3.3(c) shall be irrevocable deemed payment in respect of its participation in such L/C Borrowing and shall constitute an L/C Advance from such Lender in satisfaction of its participation obligation under this Section 3.3.
(e) Each L/C Participant’s obligation to make a Loan or L/C Advances to reimburse a Letter of Credit Issuer for amounts drawn under Letter of Credit, as contemplated by this Section 3.3(c), shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not subject to be affected by any circumstance, including (x) any setoff, counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-offrecoupment, defense or other right that which such L/C Participant may have against the relevant Letter of Credit Issuer, any Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever; (including an L/C Participant) may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank, any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(vy) the occurrence or continuance of any a Default or any Event of Default; or
or (viz) any other eventoccurrence, condition of circumstanceevent or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided that each Lender’s obligation to make Loans pursuant to this Section 3.3(c) is subject to the conditions set forth in Section 7 (other than delivery by the relevant Borrower of a Notice of Borrowing). No such making of an L/C Advance shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the relevant Borrower to reimburse the Letter of Credit Issuer for the amount of any payment made by such Letter of Credit Issuer under any Letter of Credit, together with interest as provided herein.
(f) Until each Lender funds its Loan or L/C Advance pursuant to this Section 3.3 to reimburse the Letter of Credit Issuer for any Unpaid Drawing, interest in respect of such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of such amount shall be solely for the account of the Letter of Credit Issuer.
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Samples: Secured Revolving Credit Agreement (NXP Semiconductors N.V.)
Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the ------------------------------- issuance by an the Issuing Bank Lender of any Letter of Credit, such the Issuing Bank Lender shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each RL Lender, other than the Issuing Lender (each such RL Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.32.04, an “L/C a "Participant”"), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such the Issuing BankLender, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”)participation, to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment 's RL Percentage, in each such Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing or payment made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto. Upon any change in the Revolving Loan Commitments or RL Percentages of the RL Lenders pursuant to Section 1.13 or 13.04, it is hereby agreed that, with respect to all outstanding Letters of Credit and Unpaid Drawings, there shall be an automatic adjustment to the participations pursuant to this Section 2.04 to reflect the new RL Percentages of the assignor and assignee RL Lender, as the case may be.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of CreditCredit issued by it, the relevant Issuing Bank Lender shall not have no an obligation relative to the L/C Participants other Lenders other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit appear to have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank has examined the documents with reasonable care delivered and (iii) the documents that they appear to substantially comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank Lender under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by itit shall not create for the Issuing Lender any resulting liability to the Borrower, if any other Credit Party, any Lender or any other Person unless taken or omitted in by reason of the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Issuing Lender (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction), shall not create for such Issuing Bank any resulting liability.
(c) In the event that an the Issuing Bank Lender makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower shall not have repaid reimbursed such amount in full to such the Issuing Bank Lender pursuant to Section 3.4(a2.05(a), such the Issuing Bank Lender shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (Agent, which shall promptly notify each L/C Participant) Participant of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, Lender the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment 's RL Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available same day funds. Each L/C If the Administrative Agent so notifies, prior to 11:00 A.M. (New York time) on any Business Day, any Participant required to fund a payment under a Letter of Credit, such Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank Lender in Dollars such L/C Participant’s Commitment 's RL Percentage of the amount of such payment on such Business Day in same day funds; provided, however, that no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) Participant shall be obligated -------- ------- to pay to the Issuing Lender its RL Percentage of such unreimbursed amount for any wrongful payment made by the Issuing Lender under a Letter of Credit issued by it as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct or gross negligence on the first Business Day after part of the date notified Issuing Lender (as finally determined by such Issuing Bank in immediately available fundsa court of competent jurisdiction). If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Commitment RL Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing BankLender, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing BankLender, forthwith on demand, demand such amount, together with interest thereon thereon, for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent Issuing Lender at the overnight Federal Funds Rate for the account of such Issuing Bank first three days and at a the interest rate per annum equal applicable to the Overnight Revolving Loans maintained as Base Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoingLoans for each day thereafter. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank Lender its Commitment RL Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank Lender its Commitment RL Percentage of any payment under such any Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent Issuing Lender such other L/C Participant’s Commitment 's RL Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an the Issuing Bank Lender receives a payment in respect of an unpaid a reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent it has received for the account of such Issuing Bank any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such the Issuing Bank Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that which has paid its Commitment RL Percentage of such reimbursement obligationthereof, in Dollars and in immediately available same day funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s 's share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rateparticipations.
(e) Upon the request of any Participant, the Issuing Lender shall furnish to such Participant copies of any Letter of Credit issued by it and such other documentation as may reasonably be requested by such Participant.
(f) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank Lender with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever (except as otherwise provided in the proviso to the second sentence of Section 2.04(c)) and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under including, without limitation, any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-offsetoff, defense or other right that which the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) of its Subsidiaries may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any the Issuing BankLender, any Lender Participant or any other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) any other event, condition of circumstance, whether or not similar to the foregoing.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Idt Corp)
Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank any Letter of Credit Issuer of any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Lender (each such Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C Participant”), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing BankLetter of Credit Issuer, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage, in each Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer has examined the documents with reasonable care and (iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction)misconduct, shall not create for such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer any resulting liabilityliability to the L/C Participants.
(c) In the event that an Issuing Bank any Letter of Credit Issuer makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower shall not have repaid such amount in full to such Issuing Bank the respective Letter of Credit Issuer pursuant to Section 3.4(a), or if any reimbursement payment is required to be refunded to the Borrower, such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify and each L/C Participant) Participant of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing BankLetter of Credit Issuer, the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available funds; provided, however, that no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Letter of Credit Issuer its Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by the Letter of Credit Issuer under any such Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of such Letter of Credit Issuer (as determined in a final and non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction). Each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer in immediately available funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bankapplicable Letter of Credit Issuer, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing BankLetter of Credit Issuer, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer in connection with the foregoing. The failure of any L/C Participant [CREDIT AGREEMENT] to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank the applicable Letter of Credit Issuer its Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer its Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an Issuing Bank any Letter of Credit Issuer receives a payment in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank a Letter of Credit Issuer with respect to Letters of Credit shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) any other event[CREDIT AGREEMENT] provided, condition of circumstancehowever, whether or not similar that no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the foregoingAdministrative Agent for the account of any Letter of Credit Issuer its Commitment Percentage of any unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by such Letter of Credit Issuer under a Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence on the part of the Letter of Credit Issuer (as determined in a final and non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction).
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Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer of any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Revolving Lender (each such Revolving Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C Participant”), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Revolving Commitment Percentage, in each Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer has examined the documents with reasonable care and (iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction)misconduct, shall not create for such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer any resulting liability.
(c) In the event that an Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower shall not have repaid such amount in full to such Issuing Bank the respective Letter of Credit Issuer pursuant to Section 3.4(a), such Issuing Bank or if any reimbursement payment is required to be refunded to the Borrower, the Letter of Credit Issuer shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify and each L/C Participant) Participant of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, the amount of such L/C Participant’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available funds; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not be construed to excuse the Letter of Credit Issuer for any liability to the Borrower arising from any wrongful payment made by the Letter of Credit Issuer under any such Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of the Letter of Credit Issuer (as determined in a final and non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction). Each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer such L/C Participant’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer in immediately available funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Revolving Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing BankLetter of Credit Issuer, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer in connection with the foregoing. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer its Revolving Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer its Revolving Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Revolving Commitment Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer receives a payment in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Revolving Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank a Letter of Credit Issuer with respect to Letters of Credit shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) provided, however, that the foregoing shall not be construed to excuse the Letter of Credit Issuer for any other event, condition of circumstance, whether or not similar liability to the foregoingBorrower arising from any wrongful payment made by the Letter of Credit Issuer under a Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of the Letter of Credit Issuer (as determined in a final and non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction).
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Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank of any Letter of Credit (and on the Closing Date, with respect to the Existing Letters of Credit), such Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Lender (each such Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C Participant”), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing Bank, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage, in each Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank has examined the documents with reasonable care and (iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction)misconduct, shall not create for such Issuing Bank any resulting liability.
(c) In the event that an Issuing Bank makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower shall not have repaid such amount (calculated, in the case of Alternate Currency Letters of Credit, based on the Dollar Equivalent thereof) in full to such Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 3.4(a), such Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify and each L/C Participant) Participant of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available funds; provided, however, that no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by such Issuing Bank under any such Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of such Issuing Bank. Each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank in immediately available funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoing. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an Issuing Bank receives a payment in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank with respect to Letters of Credit shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank, any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) any other eventprovided, condition of circumstancehowever, whether or not similar that no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the foregoingAdministrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by such Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of such Issuing Bank.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Talos Energy Inc.)
Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon On the issuance by an Issuing Bank of any Letter of CreditEffective Date, such ------------------------------- the B Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Lender Bank with a B Commitment, other than the B Issuing Bank (each such LenderBank, in its capacity under this Section 3.31B.03(a), an “L/C a "B Participant”"), and each such L/C B Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such the B Issuing Bank, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”)participation, to the extent of such L/C B Participant’s Commitment Percentage, 's B Percentage in each B Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing B Drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower Company under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank has examined the documents with reasonable care and (iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant B Issuing Bank under or in connection with any B Letter of Credit issued by itCredit, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdictionjurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision), shall not create for such the B Issuing Bank any resulting liabilityliability to the Company or any Bank.
(c) In the event that an the B Issuing Bank makes any payment under any B Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower Company shall not have repaid reimbursed such amount in full to such the B Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 3.4(a1B.04(a), such the B Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent, and the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify each L/C B Participant) , of such failure, and each such L/C B Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such the B Issuing Bank, Bank the amount of such L/C B Participant’s Commitment 's B Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available same day funds. Each L/C If the Administrative Agent so notifies, prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York time) on any Business Day, any B Participant required to fund a payment under a B Letter of Credit, such B Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant such B Issuing Bank in Dollars such L/C B Participant’s Commitment 's B Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first such Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank in immediately available same day funds. If and to the extent such L/C B Participant shall not have so made its Commitment B Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant B Issuing Bank, such L/C B Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such the B Issuing Bank, forthwith on demand, demand such amount, together with interest thereon thereon, for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such the B Issuing Bank at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoingovernight Federal Funds Rate. The failure of any L/C B Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any the B Issuing Bank its Commitment B Percentage of any payment under any B Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C B Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such the B Issuing Bank its Commitment B Percentage of any payment under such B Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C B Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C B Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the B Issuing Bank such other L/C B Participant’s Commitment 's B Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an the B Issuing Bank receives a payment in respect of an unpaid a reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such the B Issuing Bank any payments from the L/C B Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such the B Issuing Bank shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C B Participant that which has paid its Commitment B Percentage of such reimbursement obligationthereof, in Dollars and in immediately available same day funds, an amount equal to such L/C B Participant’s 's share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C B Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C B Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at participations or, if less, such B Participant's B Percentage of the Overnight Ratepayment received.
(e) Upon the request of any B Participant, the B Issuing Bank shall furnish to such B Participant copies of any B Letter of Credit and such other documentation as may reasonably be requested by such B Participant.
(f) The obligations of the L/C B Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an the B Issuing Bank with respect to the B Letters of Credit shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under including, without limitation, any of the following circumstances:
(i1) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit DocumentsAgreement;
(ii2) the existence of any claim, set-offsetoff, defense or other right that which the Borrower Company or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) of its Subsidiaries may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a B Letter of Credit, any transferee of any B Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any the B Issuing Bank, any Lender B Participant, or any other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any B Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower Company or any of its Subsidiaries and the beneficiary named in any such B Letter of Credit);
(iii3) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any B Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v4) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) any other event, condition of circumstance, whether or not similar to the foregoing.
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Samples: Letter of Credit and Reimbursement Agreement (R&b Falcon Corp)
Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank Lender of any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Bank Lender shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Lender (other than such Issuing Lender in its capacity (if any) as a Lender) and each such Lender, Lender (in its capacity under this Section 3.33.4, an “L/C a "Participant”"), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing BankLender, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”)participation, to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage's Proportionate Share, in each such Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing or payment made thereunder and the joint and several obligations of the Borrower Borrowers under this Credit Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto. Upon any change in the Commitments or Proportionate Shares of the respective Lenders pursuant to Section 2.9 or Section 11.6, it is hereby agreed that, with respect to all outstanding Letters of Credit and Unpaid Drawings relating thereto, there shall be an automatic adjustment to the participations pursuant to this Section 3.4 to reflect the new Proportionate Shares of the assignor and assignee Lender, as the case may be.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant no Issuing Bank Lender shall have no any obligation relative to the L/C Participants other Lenders other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit appear to have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank has examined the documents with reasonable care delivered and (iii) the documents that they appear to substantially comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant any Issuing Bank Lender under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by itit shall not create for such Issuing Lender any resulting liability to any of the Borrowers, if any other Credit Party, any Lender or any other Person unless such action is taken or omitted in the absence of to be taken with gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdictionjurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision), shall not create for such Issuing Bank any resulting liability.
(c) In the event that an any Issuing Bank Lender makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower Borrowers shall not have repaid reimbursed such amount in full to such Issuing Bank Lender pursuant to Section 3.4(a3.5(a), such Issuing Bank Lender shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (Agent, which shall promptly notify each L/C Participant) Participant of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, Lender the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage 's Proportionate Share of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available same day funds. Each L/C If the Agent so notifies, prior to 12:00 Noon on any Business Day, any Participant required to fund a payment under a Letter of Credit, such Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant applicable Issuing Bank Lender in Dollars such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage 's Proportionate Share of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first such Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank in immediately available same day funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Commitment Percentage Proportionate Share of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant applicable Issuing BankLender, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing BankLender, forthwith on demand, demand such amount, together with interest thereon thereon, for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to such Issuing Lender at the Administrative Agent overnight Federal Funds Rate for the account of such Issuing Bank first three days and at a the interest rate per annum equal applicable to the Overnight Loans that are maintained as Prime Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoingLoans for each day thereafter. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank Lender its Commitment Percentage Proportionate Share of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank Lender its Commitment Percentage Proportionate Share of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such Issuing Lender such other L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage 's Proportionate Share of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an any Issuing Bank Lender receives a payment in respect of an unpaid a reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent it has received for the account of such Issuing Bank any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C such Participant that which has paid its Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligationProportionate Share thereof, in Dollars and in immediately available same day funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s 's share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded handed by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rateparticipations.
(e) Upon the request of any Participant, each Issuing Lender shall furnish to such Participant copies of any Letter of Credit issued by it and such other documentation with respect thereto as may reasonably be requested by such Participant.
(f) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank Lender with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Credit Agreement under all circumstances, including under including, without limitation, any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Credit Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-offsetoff, defense or other right that the Borrower which any Credit Party or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) Subsidiary of any Credit Party may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing BankParticipant, or any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Credit Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower any Credit Party or any Subsidiary of any Credit Party and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) any other event, condition of circumstance, whether or not similar to the foregoing.
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Samples: Credit Agreement (Bway Corp)
Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon By the issuance by an of a Letter of Credit and without any further action on the part of the Issuing Bank of any Letter of Creditor the Lenders in respect thereof, such the Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have sold and transferred hereby grants to each Lender (each such Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C Participant”), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received Lender hereby acquires from such the Issuing Bank, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and a participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage, in each Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit equal to such Lender's Pro Rata Share, based upon the Pro Rata Shares in effect at the time of any drawing thereunder (or, if the Commitment shall have been deliveredterminated, (ii) the Pro Rata Shares in effect immediately prior to such Issuing Bank has examined termination), of the documents with reasonable care and (iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements amount of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted , effective upon the issuance of such Letter of Credit; provided, however, that no Lender shall be required to be taken by acquire participations in Letters of Credit that would result in its Pro Rata Share of the relevant Issuing Bank under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by itBalance exceeding its Pro Rata Share of the Commitment. In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction), shall not create for such Issuing Bank any resulting liability.
(c) In the event that an Issuing Bank makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower shall not have repaid such amount in full to such Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 3.4(a), such Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify each L/C Participant) of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available funds. Each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank in immediately available funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent Agent, for the account of such the Issuing Bank, forthwith on demandin accordance with Section 2A.4 below, such amount, together with interest thereon for Lender's pro rata percentage of each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoing. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under any unreimbursed Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to Disbursement made by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of any such paymentBank.
(db) Whenever an Issuing Bank receives a payment Each Lender acknowledges and agrees that its acquisition of participations pursuant to paragraph (a) above in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank with respect to Letters of Credit is absolute and unconditional and shall not be irrevocable affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including without limitation the occurrence and not subject to counterclaimcontinuance of any Event of Default hereunder, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and that each such payment shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever; provided that nothing herein shall constitute a waiver of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any rights a Lender may have by reason of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity gross negligence or enforceability of this Agreement or any wilful misconduct of the other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank, any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) any other event, condition of circumstance, whether or not similar to the foregoing.
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Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank of any Letter of Credit (and on the Closing Date, with respect to the Existing Letters of Credit), such Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Lender (each such Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C Participant”), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing Bank, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage, in each Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank has examined the documents with reasonable care and (iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction)misconduct, shall not create for such Issuing Bank any resulting liability.
(c) In the event that an Issuing Bank makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower shall not have repaid such amount (calculated, in the case of Alternate Currency Letters of Credit, based on the Dollar Equivalent thereof) in full to such Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 3.4(a), such Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify and each L/C Participant) Participant of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available funds. Each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank in immediately available funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoing. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of any such payment.- 89- 727670773 12335469
(d) Whenever an Issuing Bank receives a payment in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank with respect to Letters of Credit shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank, any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
; (iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
; (iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
or (v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) any other eventprovided, condition of circumstancehowever, whether or not similar that no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the foregoingAdministrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by such Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence on the part of such Issuing Bank.
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Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer of any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each other Lender that has a Revolving Credit Commitment (each such other Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “"L/C Participant”"), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “"L/C Participation”"), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s 's Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage, Percentage in each such Letter of Credit, each substitute thereforletter of credit, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the US Borrower or the UK Borrower, as the case may be, under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining theretothereto (although Letter of Credit Fees will be paid directly to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the L/C Participants as provided in Section 4.1(b) and the L/C Participants shall have no right to receive any portion of any Fronting Fees).
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank has examined the documents with reasonable care delivered and (iii) the documents that they appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction)misconduct, shall not create for such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer any resulting liability.
(c) In the event that an Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the US Borrower or the UK Borrower, as the case may be, shall not have repaid such amount in full to such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer pursuant to Section 3.4(a), such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly who will notify each applicable L/C Participant) Participant of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent Agent, for the account of such Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, the amount of such L/C Participant’s 's Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars or in the applicable Foreign Currency, as the case may be, and in immediately available funds; provided, however, that no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Letter of Credit Issuer its Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by the Letter of Credit Issuer under a Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of the Letter of Credit Issuer. Each If the Letter of Credit Issuer so notifies, prior to 11:00 a.m. (Local Time) on any Business Day, any L/C Participant required to fund a payment under a Letter of Credit, such L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer such L/C Participant’s 's Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first such Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank in immediately available fundsfunds (or, if such notification is given after 11:00 a.m. (Local Time) on any Business Day, such amount shall be made available on the immediately following Business Day). If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing BankLetter of Credit Issuer, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoingFederal Funds Effective Rate. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer its Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer its Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s 's Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer receives a payment in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause paragraph (c) above, such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in Dollars or the applicable Foreign Currency, as the case may be, and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s 's share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight RateParticipations.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer with respect to Letters of Credit shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the US Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) the UK Borrower, as the case may be, may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, any Lender or any other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the US Borrower or the UK Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) any other eventprovided, condition of circumstancehowever, whether or not similar that no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the foregoingAdministrative Agent for the account of the Letter of Credit Issuer its Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage of any unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by the Letter of Credit Issuer under a Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of the Letter of Credit Issuer.
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Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank any Letter of Credit Issuer of any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Lender (each such Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3Section, an “L/C Participant”), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing BankLetter of Credit Issuer, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage, in each Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing made Drawing thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer has examined the documents with reasonable care and (iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction)misconduct, shall not create for such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer any resulting liabilityliability to the L/C Participants.
(c) In the event that an Issuing Bank any Letter of Credit Issuer makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower shall not have repaid such amount in full to such Issuing Bank the respective Letter of Credit Issuer pursuant to Section 3.4(a), or if any reimbursement payment is required to be refunded to the Borrower, such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify and each L/C Participant) Participant of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing BankLetter of Credit Issuer, the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available funds; but no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Letter of Credit Issuer its Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by the Letter of Credit Issuer under any such Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of such Letter of Credit Issuer (as determined in a final and non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction). Each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer in immediately available funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bankapplicable Letter of Credit Issuer, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing BankLetter of Credit Issuer, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer in connection with the foregoing. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank the applicable Letter of Credit Issuer its Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer its Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an Issuing Bank any Letter of Credit Issuer receives a payment in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank a Letter of Credit Issuer with respect to Letters of Credit shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit DocumentsDocument;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein Transactions or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms term of any of the Credit DocumentsDocument; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) any other event, condition of circumstance, whether or not similar but no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the foregoingAdministrative Agent for the account of any Letter of Credit Issuer its Commitment Percentage of any unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by such Letter of Credit Issuer under a Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence on the part of the Letter of Credit Issuer (as determined in a final and non-appealable judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction).
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Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer of any Letter of Credit, such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each other Lender (each such other Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C Participant”), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage, Percentage in each such Letter of Credit, each substitute thereforletter of credit, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the relevant Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty Guarantee pertaining thereto; provided that the Letter of Credit Fees will be paid directly to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the L/C Participants as provided in Section 4.1(b) and the L/C Participants shall have no right to receive any portion of any Fronting Fees.
(b) In determining whether to pay Each Lender and each Borrower agrees that, in paying any drawing under any a Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer shall not have no obligation relative any responsibility to obtain any document (other than any sight draft, certificates and documents expressly required by the Letter of Credit) or to ascertain or inquire as to the L/C Participants other than validity or accuracy of any such document or the authority of the Person executing or delivering any such document. None of the Letter of Credit Issuer, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties nor any correspondent, participant or assignee of the Letter of Credit Issuer shall be liable to confirm that any Lender for (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank has examined the documents with reasonable care and (iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank under or in connection herewith at the request or with the approval of the Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable; (ii) any Letter of Credit issued by it, if action taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct; or (iii) the due execution, effectiveness, validity or enforceability of any document or instrument related to any Letter of Credit or any other document. The Borrowers hereby assume all risks of the acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee with respect to its use of any Letter of Credit; provided, however, that this assumption is not intended to, and shall not, preclude any Borrower pursuing such rights and remedies as it may have against the beneficiary or transferee at law or under any other agreement. None of the Letter of Credit Issuer, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties nor any correspondent, participant or assignee of the Letter of Credit Issuer shall be liable or responsible for any of the matters described in clauses (i) through (v) of Section 3.3(g); provided, however, that anything in such clauses to the contrary notwithstanding, the relevant Borrower may have a claim against the Letter of Credit Issuer, and the Letter of Credit Issuer may be liable to such Borrower, to the extent, but only to the extent, of any direct, as opposed to consequential or exemplary, damages suffered by such Borrower which were caused by the Letter of Credit Issuer’s willful misconduct (as finally determined or gross negligence or the Letter of Credit Issuer’s willful failure to pay under any Letter of Credit after the presentation to it by the beneficiary of a court sight draft and certificate(s) strictly complying with the terms and conditions of competent jurisdiction)a Letter of Credit. In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, the Letter of Credit Issuer may accept documents that appear on their face to be in order, without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, and the Letter of Credit Issuer shall not create be responsible for such Issuing Bank the validity or sufficiency of any resulting liabilityinstrument transferring or assigning or purporting to transfer or assign a Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits thereunder or proceeds thereof, in whole or in part, which may prove to be invalid or ineffective for any reason.
(c) In the event that an Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the relevant Borrower shall not have repaid such amount in full to such Issuing Bank the respective Letter of Credit Issuer pursuant to Section 3.4(a)3.4, such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify and each L/C Participant) Participant of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars the currency in which such payment was made by the Letter of Credit Issuer and in immediately available funds. Each If the Letter of Credit Issuer so notifies, prior to 11:00 a.m. on any Business Day, each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank Letter of Credit Issuer such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first such Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank in immediately available funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing BankLetter of Credit Issuer, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bankthe Letter of Credit Issuer, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer at a rate per annum equal the Federal Funds Effective Rate. A certificate from the relevant Letter of Credit Issuer submitted to any L/C Participant (through the Overnight Rate from time Administration Agent) with respect to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoingamounts owing under this Section 3.3(c) shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer its Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer its Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of any such payment.
(d) With respect to any Unpaid Drawing that is not fully reimbursed pursuant to Section 3.4 or refinanced by a Borrowing of Loans because the conditions set forth in Section
(e) Each L/C Participant’s obligation to make a Loan or L/C Advances to reimburse a Letter of Credit Issuer for amounts drawn under Letter of Credit, as contemplated by this Section 3.3(c), shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (x) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such L/C Participant may have against the relevant Letter of Credit Issuer, any Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever; (y) the occurrence or continuance of a Default or any Event of Default; or (z) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided that each Lender’s obligation to make Loans pursuant to this Section 3.3(c) is subject to the conditions set forth in Section 7 (other than delivery by the relevant Borrower of a Notice of Borrowing). No such making of an L/C Advance shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the relevant Borrower to reimburse the Letter of Credit Issuer for the amount of any payment made by such Letter of Credit Issuer under any Letter of Credit, together with interest as provided herein.
(f) Until each Lender funds its Loan or L/C Advance pursuant to this Section 3.3 to reimburse the Letter of Credit Issuer for any Unpaid Drawing, interest in respect of such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of such amount shall be solely for the account of the Letter of Credit Issuer.
(g) Whenever an Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer receives a payment from a Borrower in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation Unpaid Drawing as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer any payments L/C Advances from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) abovethis Section 3.3, such Issuing Bank the Letter of Credit Issuer shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in Dollars the relevant currency and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation Unpaid Drawing and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight RateParticipations.
(eh) The obligations of the L/C Participants Borrowers to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank a Letter of Credit Issuer with respect to drawings under Letters of Credit shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of the Letter of Credit, this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) Credit Party may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom the beneficiary or any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bankthe relevant Letter of Credit Issuer, any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the a Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, demand, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect; or any loss or delay in the transmission or otherwise of any document required in order to make a drawing under such Letter of Credit;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) any other event, condition of circumstance, whether or not similar to the foregoing.
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Samples: Secured Revolving Credit Agreement (NXP Semiconductors N.V.)
Letter of Credit Participations. (a) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuing Bank of any Letter of Credit (and on the Closing Date, with respect to the Existing Letters of Credit), such Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Lender (each such Lender, in its capacity under this Section 3.3, an “L/C Participant”), and each such L/C Participant shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have purchased and received from such Issuing Bank, without recourse or warranty, an undivided interest and participation (each an “L/C Participation”), to the extent of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage, in each Letter of Credit, each substitute therefor, each drawing made thereunder and the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement with respect thereto, and any security therefor or guaranty pertaining thereto.
(b) In determining whether to pay under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Bank shall have no obligation relative to the L/C Participants other than to confirm that (i) any documents required to be delivered under such Letter of Credit have been delivered, (ii) such Issuing Bank has examined the documents with reasonable care and (iii) the documents appear to comply on their face with the requirements of such Letter of Credit. Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuing Bank under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it, if taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction)misconduct, shall not create for such Issuing Bank any resulting liability.
(c) In the event that an Issuing Bank makes any payment under any Letter of Credit issued by it and the Borrower shall not have repaid such amount in full to such Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 3.4(a), such Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify and each L/C Participant) Participant of such failure, and each such L/C Participant shall promptly and unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, the amount of such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed payment in Dollars and in immediately available funds; provided, however, that no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of such unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by such Issuing Bank under any such Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of such Issuing Bank. Each L/C Participant shall make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment no later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the first Business Day after the date notified by such Issuing Bank in immediately available funds. If and to the extent such L/C Participant shall not have so made its Commitment Percentage of the amount of such payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank, such L/C Participant agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank, forthwith on demand, such amount, together with interest thereon for each day from such date until the date such amount is paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank at a rate per annum equal to the Overnight Rate from time to time then in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Issuing Bank in connection with the foregoing. The failure of any L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under any Letter of Credit shall not relieve any other L/C Participant of its obligation hereunder to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any payment under such Letter of Credit on the date required, as specified above, but no L/C Participant shall be responsible for the failure of any other L/C Participant to make available to the Administrative Agent such other L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of any such payment.
(d) Whenever an Issuing Bank receives a payment in respect of an unpaid reimbursement obligation as to which the Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuing Bank any payments from the L/C Participants pursuant to clause (c) above, such Issuing Bank shall pay to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to each L/C Participant that has paid its Commitment Percentage of such reimbursement obligation, in Dollars and in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s share (based upon the proportionate aggregate amount originally funded by such L/C Participant to the aggregate amount funded by all L/C Participants) of the principal amount so paid in respect of such reimbursement obligation and interest thereon accruing after the purchase of the respective L/C Participations at the Overnight Rate.
(e) The obligations of the L/C Participants to make payments to the Administrative Agent for the account of an Issuing Bank with respect to Letters of Credit shall be irrevocable and not subject to counterclaim, set-off or other defense or any other qualification or exception whatsoever and shall be made in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under all circumstances, including under any of the following circumstances:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents;
(ii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other right that the Borrower or any other Person (including an L/C Participant) may have at any time against a beneficiary named in a Letter of Credit, any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such transferee may be acting), the Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank, any Lender or other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, the transactions contemplated herein or any unrelated transactions (including any underlying transaction between the Borrower and the beneficiary named in any such Letter of Credit);
(iii) any draft, certificate or any other document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect;
(iv) the surrender or impairment of any security for the performance or observance of any of the terms of any of the Credit Documents; or
(v) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default; or
(vi) any other eventprovided, condition of circumstancehowever, whether or not similar that no L/C Participant shall be obligated to pay to the foregoingAdministrative Agent for the account of any Issuing Bank its Commitment Percentage of any unreimbursed amount arising from any wrongful payment made by such Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting willful misconduct or gross negligence on the part of such Issuing Bank.
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Samples: Senior Secured Superpriority Debtor in Possession Credit Agreement (EP Energy LLC)