Common use of Limitation on Dividends Clause in Contracts

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not pay any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Ninth Amendment (LPL Financial Holdings Inc.), Eighth Amendment (LPL Financial Holdings Inc.)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the BorrowerPerson making such dividend) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary or any warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or otherwise acquire for consideration (hereafter outstanding, or make any other than distribution in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerany Subsidiary (collectively, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”"Restricted Payments"); provided , except that: (a) (i) any Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Wholly Owned Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such PersonGuarantor; (b) Permitted Issuances may be made; (c) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurredshall have occurred and be continuing, is the Borrower may (i) purchase the Borrower's common stock or common stock options from present or former officers or employees of the Borrower or any Subsidiary upon the death, (d) so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and pay dividends to the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares holders of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeemcommon stock, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of that (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time any such Dividend dividend is paid made, either (x) the Consolidated Senior Leverage Ratio as at the end of the most recent period of four consecutive fiscal quarters for which the relevant financial information is available is less than or equal to exceed2.00 to 1.0, determined on a pro forma basis after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of such dividend and any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, financing thereof as if such Dividends had events occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; period or (jy) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu has a long-term senior secured debt rating of fractional shares in connection with any Dividendat least BBB- from Standard & Poor's Ratings Services and at least Baa3 from Mood▇'▇ ▇▇▇estors Service, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) Inc and (ii) honor the aggregate amount of dividends made pursuant to this paragraph (d) shall not, at any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in time, exceed an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant 50% of cumulative Consolidated Net Income during the period (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Memberstaken as a single accounting period) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with from the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days first full fiscal quarter commencing after the date of declaration thereof, if at Amendment/Restatement Closing Date through the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with most recent full fiscal quarter for which the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default relevant financial information is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;available.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Credit Agreement (International Home Foods Inc), Credit Agreement (International Home Foods Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not pay Declare any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, on any shares of any class of its Capital Stock stock, or the Capital Stock of make any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)payment on account of, or set aside any funds apart assets for any a sinking or other analogous fund for, the purchase, redemption, retirement or other acquisition of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerstock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Company or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”)its Subsidiaries; provided except that: (a) Subsidiaries may pay dividends directly or indirectly to the Company or to Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiaries and Foreign Subsidiaries may pay dividends directly or indirectly to Foreign Subsidiaries which are directly or indirectly wholly-owned by the Company; (b) the Company and its Subsidiaries may pay or make dividends or distributions to any holder of its capital stock in the form of additional shares of capital stock of the same class and type; (c) the Company may effect one or more Qualified Stock Repurchases if (i) the Borrower may (no Default or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole Event of Default has occurred or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenderswould occur after giving effect thereto, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower Company shall be in compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 9.1 in each case calculated on a pro-forma basis as of the last day of the fiscal quarter ending immediately preceding the date of such Qualified Stock Repurchase for which the relevant financial information has been delivered to the Lenders pursuant to Section 8.1 or 8.2, as applicable, giving effect to such cash dividend or distribution as if it had been made on the first day of the Measurement Period ending on the last day of such fiscal quarter and (iii) for an aggregate consideration for all such purchases from and after the Restatement Effective Date, aggregated with the total of all amounts paid under Section 9.12(a)(v) if (but only if) at the time of any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely purchase the Secured Leverage Ratio of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries equals or exceeds 2.75 to 1.00 (calculated on a pro forma basis as of the last day of the fiscal quarter ending immediately preceding the date of any such Qualified Stock Repurchase for which the relevant financial information has been delivered to the Lenders pursuant to Section 8.1 or 8.2, as applicable, giving effect to such Qualified Stock Repurchase as if it had been made on the first day of the Measurement Period ending on the last day of such fiscal quarter), not exceeding $150,000,000 in the Capital Stock aggregate after the Restatement Effective Date, which amount shall be increased in the case of each such purchase if at the time such purchase is made the Secured Leverage Ratio (other calculated as aforesaid) is less than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted 2.75 to 1.0, by Section 10.1) of such Person;any then remaining Available Amount; and (bd) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing occurred or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, occur after giving effect to such Dividenddeclaration or payment, the sum Company may declare and pay cash dividends or cash distributions to any holders of its Equity Interests, provided that, after giving effect thereto the Company (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred is in pro forma compliance with the Total Leverage Ratio and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount Interest Coverage Ratio at the respective levels applicable thereto at such time in accordance with Section 9.1, as each such Dividend ratio so specified is paidreduced (in the case of Section 9.1(a)) or increased (in the case of Section 9.1(b)) by 0.50 to 1.00 from the applicable levels set forth in Section 9.1, plus (ii) so long the Secured Leverage Ratio of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries is less than 2.50 to 1.00, in each case calculated on a pro forma basis as no Event of Default the last day of the fiscal quarter ending immediately preceding the effective date of such cash dividend or distribution for which the relevant financial information has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal been delivered to the Lenders pursuant to Section 8.1 or 8.2, as applicable, giving effect to such cash dividend or distribution as if it had been made on the first day of the Measurement Period ending on the last day of such fiscal quarter, and (iii) each such dividend or distribution is funded solely with any then remaining Available Amount at the time such Dividend dividend or distribution is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;made.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Credit Agreement (Be Aerospace Inc), Credit Agreement (Be Aerospace Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not pay Declare any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the on any shares of ----------------------- any class of Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders Stock, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, other acquisition of any shares of any class of its Capital Stock Stock, or the any warrants or options to purchase such Capital Stock of any Parent Entity Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any options other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or warrants indirectly, whether in cash or stock appreciation property or similar rights issued with respect to in obligations of the Company or any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”)Subsidiaries; provided except that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or Subsidiaries may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole dividends or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material distributions to the interests of Company or to Domestic Subsidiaries (other than Encumbered Subsidiaries) which are directly or indirectly wholly owned by the LendersCompany, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary Subsidiaries may pay Dividends payable solely in dividends or distributions to Encumbered Subsidiaries that (directly or through a series of dividends or distributions) promptly pay such dividends or distributions to the Capital Stock Company or a Domestic Subsidiary (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1an Encumbered Subsidiary) of such Personand (iii) Encumbered Subsidiaries may pay dividends or distributions to other Encumbered Subsidiaries; (b) so long the Company may pay or make dividends or distributions to any holder of its Capital Stock in the form of additional shares of Capital Stock of the same class and type; (c) the Company may repurchase Capital Stock of the Company owned by former, present or future employees of the Company or its Subsidiaries or their assigns, estates and heirs, provided that the aggregate amount expended by the -------- Company pursuant to this clause (c) shall not in the aggregate exceed (i) $5,000,000 in any fiscal year or (ii) $10,000,000 during the term of this Agreement, plus any amounts contributed to the Company as a result of resales of such repurchased shares of Capital Stock; (d) the Company may after the fifth anniversary of the date of the issuance thereof make scheduled payments or dividends on the Preferred Stock when due at a rate per annum no greater than the rate per annum applicable to such Preferred Stock on the original date of issuance thereof, to the extent required to be paid in cash, provided that no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is shall -------- have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower Company may repurchase Capital redeem Preferred Stock with the proceeds of any Parent Entity issuances of the Borrower, or the Borrower, common stock and preferred stock as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants referred to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases;in subsection 3.4(b)(i); and (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower Company may make and pay Dividends: (i) redeem preferred stock with the proceeds of which will be used issuances of other preferred stock as referred to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to payin subsection 3.4(b)(i) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) and/or with the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction Indebtedness issued as permitted by this Agreement; (visubsection 7.1(h) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c7.1(n), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;.

Appears in 2 contracts

Sources: Credit Agreement (Harborside Healthcare Corp), Credit Agreement (Sailors Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare ----------------------- or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the BorrowerPerson making such dividend) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary or any warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or otherwise acquire for consideration (hereafter outstanding, or make any other than distribution in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of Holdings, the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerany Subsidiary (collectively, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”"Restricted Payments"); provided that, except: (a) (i) any Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital StockWholly Owned Subsidiary Guarantor; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person;and (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurredshall have occurred and be continuing (immediately after giving effect to the applicable payment or transaction described below), is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeemfollowing: (i) the purchase, retire, acquire redemption or repurchase their Capital Stock (other acquisition for value by the Borrower or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Subsidiaries of any Capital Stock)) Stock of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries held by officers, employees, former officers or former employees of the Borrower or any present of its Subsidiaries (or the estates or beneficiaries of such officers, employees, former officers or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person employment, or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect dividends by the Borrower to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant Holdings to effect the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid same in respect of all such shares of any Capital Stock (of Holdings or any options direct or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued indirect equity interest of Reliant Partners, with respect to any all of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased payments and dividends not to exceed $2,000,000 in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus aggregate since the Closing Date; (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained dividends by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from not to exceed $2,000,000 in the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus aggregate since the Closing Date; (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, by the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends of its Subsidiaries to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used Holdings to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself general and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating administrative expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 500,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; ; (iiiiv) if the proceeds Consolidated Leverage Ratio as of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow the last day of any Parent Entity fiscal year of the Borrower is less than 3.25 to pay) franchise taxes and other fees1.0, taxes and expenses required dividends by the Borrower not to maintain any exceed $1,000,000 in the fiscal year of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; Borrower commencing immediately after such last day; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (purchase, redemption or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated other acquisition by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (exchange for, or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to Net Cash Proceeds of the common substantially concurrent issuance and sale of, other Capital Stock of the Borrower from or (v) the net cash proceeds purchase, redemption, retirement or other acquisition by the Borrower of Subordinated Indebtedness made in exchange for, or out of the initial public offering Net Cash Proceeds of, the substantially concurrent issuance and sale of the Capital Stock of Holdings;the Borrower or other Subordinated Indebtedness provided that any Subordinated Indebtedness incurred in exchange for such retired Subordinated Indebtedness also must be permitted under Section 7.2 and any and all other provisions hereof).

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Credit Agreement (Reliant Building Products Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock or make any prepayment, repurchase, redemption or defeasance in respect of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase Three Cities Subordinated Debt or otherwise acquire for consideration any Special Subordinated Debt (other than with the proceeds of Replacement Subordinated Debt and regularly scheduled payments in connection accordance with the terms thereof), whether now or hereafter outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary (such declarations, payments, setting apart, purchases, redemptions, defeasances, retirements, acquisitions and distributions being herein called "RESTRICTED PAYMENTS"), except that the Borrower may make Restricted Payments as follows: (a) dividends in respect of preferred stock of the Borrower in an Investment permitted by amount not to exceed $30,000 during any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters; (b) dividends in respect of common stock of the Borrower in an amount not to exceed, during any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters, when combined with the amount of Restricted Payments made during such period pursuant to Section 10.59.7(a), the lesser of (i) any shares $1,000,000 and (ii) 25% of Consolidated Net Income during such period; (c) prepayments, repurchases, redemptions or defeasances of any class Subordinated Debt made with the proceeds of Replacement Subordinated Debt; (d) prepayments, repurchases, redemptions or defeasances of any Special Subordinated Debt made no earlier than June 30, 2002 (unless paid from proceeds described in Exhibit 1.2-B(1) of the Precision Acquisition Agreement) in an amount not to exceed $3,000,000; (e) purchases of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity the Borrower in connection with the payment of the option price or taxes in connection with the exercising of options or the grant of restricted shares under compensation plans of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred done in the ordinary course of the Borrower's business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity consistent with past practices of the Borrower; (iiif) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity purchases of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from in connection with the net cash proceeds termination of any pension plans to the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;extent permitted by Section 5.5(b).

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Sources: Credit Agreement (Monarch Machine Tool Co)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the BorrowerCompany or an increase in the stated value of the Preferred Shares) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the BorrowerCompany or any Subsidiary or any warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Company or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided thatSubsidiary, except: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material pursuant to the interests of Merger in accordance with the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous Recapitalization Documents (subject to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person8.6(e)); (b) so long as the Company may repurchase, redeem or otherwise acquire or retire for value any Capital Stock of the Company held by employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to any employee equity subscription agreement, stock option agreement or stock ownership arrangement, provided that (A) the aggregate price paid for all such repurchased, redeemed, acquired or retired Capital Stock shall not exceed $5,000,000, and (B) no Default or Event of Default has occurredshall have then occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom; (c) any Subsidiary may declare and pay dividends to the Company or to a Subsidiary of the Company that is a Guarantor; (d) dividends may be declared and paid on the Preferred Shares following the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date, is provided that no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom; (e) payments to holders of Dissenting Shares in satisfaction or release of their rights or claims under Section 262 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, subject to the provisions of Schedule 8.6; and (f) the Company may repurchase, redeem, or otherwise acquire for value any Capital Stock of the Company (other than Capital Stock held by employees pursuant to agreements of 77 84 the type referred to in Section 8.6(b) or Capital Stock owned by the Sponsor or any of its Affiliates) from public shareholders of the Company, provided that (i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (andaggregate purchase price paid for all such repurchased, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiaryredeemed, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of acquired or retired Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend "Aggregate Redemption Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k") shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after on the date of declaration thereofany such repurchase, if at redemption, acquisition, or retirement (a "Redemption Date") the date greater of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with (A) $5,000,000 or (B) the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so Aggregate Redemption Amount specified below that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed corresponds to the common Capital Stock of Leverage Ratio on the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;relevant Redemption Date: Leverage Aggregate Redemption Ratio Amount -------- -------------------- Less than or equal to 4.0 to $7,500,000 1.0 but greater than 3.5 to 1.0 Less than or equal to 3.5 to $10,000,000 1.0 but greater than 2.75 to 1.0 Less than or equal to 2.75 to 1.0 $12,500,000

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Credit Agreement (Juno Lighting Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration87 81 other acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries warrants or options to purchase any such Stock, whether now or otherwise acquire for consideration (hereafter outstanding, or make any other than distribution in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerany Restricted Subsidiary (such declarations, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”payments, setting apart, purchases, redemptions, defeasances, retirements, acquisitions and distributions being herein called "Restricted Payments"); provided , except that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (purchase or exchange then-existing employee stock options for consideration consisting solely of new employee stock options and may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of purchase Capital Stock or rights options to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds the same from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances directors, officers and employees of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any its Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely Subsidiaries in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person;connection with employment and severance arrangements; and (b) so long as after giving effect thereto no Default or Event of Default has occurred, occurred and is continuing or would result therefromcontinuing, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued make Restricted Payments with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of its Common Stock commencing in the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem1997 Fiscal Year, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the provided that no Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions Payment may be made pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights planthis paragraph if, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreementafter giving effect thereto, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends Payments made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after paragraph would exceed 50% of the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum Consolidated Net Income of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause for the period (itaken as one accounting period) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, from the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as beginning of the 1997 Fiscal Year through the last day of the most recently recent fiscal quarter ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default Restricted Payment is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;made.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Credit Agreement (Kmart Corp)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than ----------------------- dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the BorrowerPerson making such dividend) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted its Subsidiaries or any warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or otherwise acquire for consideration (hereafter outstanding, or make any other than distribution in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (collectively, "Restricted Payments"), except that: ------------------- (a) any Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to the Borrower or any Wholly Owned Subsidiary Guarantor; (b) any payments made to the former shareholders of the Company pursuant to Section 1.11 of the Transaction Agreement; (c) payments made on or before the Closing Date in respect of the redemption of Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued Company held by existing shareholders in connection with respect to any the merger of DI Acquisition into the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such PersonCompany; (bd) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefromshall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire pay dividends to the Company to permit the Company to (i) purchase the Company's common stock or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire common stock options from present or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (former officers or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any employees of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire Company or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, Subsidiaries upon the death, disability, retirement disability or termination of employment of any such Person officer or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights planemployee, any managementprovided, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, that the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of payments -------- under this clause (i) shall not exceed $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or 2,000,000 during any fiscal year of the Borrower and $5,000,000 during such calendar year from the sale term of such Capital Stock this Agreement, net, in any case, of any proceeds received by the Company and contributed to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) the Borrower in connection with resales of any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received common stock or common stock options so purchased during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 relevant period and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends pay management fees to the Borrower ▇▇▇▇ Capital and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions ▇▇▇▇ Affiliates expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section;7.10(iii); and (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants pay dividends to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of Company to permit the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends Company to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating corporate overhead expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 250,000 in any fiscal year plus year, (ii) pay any actualtaxes which are due and payable by the Company and the Borrower as part of a consolidated group, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof relating to the extent such salariesCompany Interim Credit Facility and any refinancing thereof which is not prohibited by Section 7.9, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an repay the amount equal by which the net proceeds to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) Company from the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as issuance of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior Company Zeros are insufficient to date of repay in full the making of any such DividendsCompany Interim Credit Facility and (v) beginning in fiscal year 2002, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred pay interest in cash on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;Company Zeros.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Credit Agreement (Details Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not pay Declare any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, on any shares of any class of its Capital Stock stock, or the Capital Stock of make any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)payment on account of, or set aside any funds apart assets for any a sinking or other analogous fund for, the purchase, redemption, retirement or other acquisition of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerstock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Company or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) its Subsidiaries (all of the foregoing “Dividends”being referred to herein as "Restricted Payments"); provided except that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or Subsidiaries may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole dividends directly or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material indirectly to the interests of Company or to Domestic Subsidiaries which are directly or indirectly wholly-owned by the LendersCompany, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary Foreign Subsidiaries may pay Dividends payable solely in dividends directly or indirectly to Foreign Subsidiaries which are directly or indirectly wholly-owned by the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such PersonCompany; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing occurred or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before occur after giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividendssuch declaration or payment, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends Company may, from time to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (andtime, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity stock from management employees of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself Company and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of 10,000,000.00 (the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)"Dividend Limit"); (vc) the proceeds Company and its Subsidiaries may pay or make dividends or distributions to any holder of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity its Capital Stock in the form of additional shares of capital stock of the Borrower to pay) fees same class and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement;type; and (vid) the proceeds so long as no Default or Event of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership Default has occurred or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, would occur after giving effect to such Dividenddeclaration or payment, the sum Company may declare and pay cash dividends or distributions to any holders of its Equity Interests (i1) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefromin an aggregate amount not to exceed $25,000,000.00 during any fiscal year, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) ifprovided that, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, effect thereto the Borrower would Company (x) shall be in compliance with the covenants set forth in Section 9.1 and (y) shall have a Consolidated Total Debt Secured Leverage Ratio of no more than 2.5 to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio 1, in each case calculated on a pro forma basis as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to last day of the fiscal quarter ending immediately preceding the effective date of such cash dividend or distribution for which the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basisrelevant financial information has been delivered to the lenders pursuant to Section 8.1 or 8.2, as applicable, giving effect to such cash dividend or distribution as if such Dividends it had occurred been made on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments Measurement Period ending on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration last day of such payments including deemed repurchases fiscal quarter or (2) during any fiscal year in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to which the conditions set out therein); forth in clause (m1) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereofwere not satisfied, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount which, when added to any amounts paid under clause (iv) of Section 9.12 during such year, shall not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;exceed $ 10,000,000.00.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Credit Agreement (Be Aerospace Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in common stock of the Borrower or in Capital Stock of the BorrowerBorrower of the same class and series as that on which such dividends are payable) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries warrants or options to purchase any such Stock, whether now or otherwise acquire for consideration (hereafter outstanding, or make any other than distribution in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerany Subsidiary (such declarations, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”payments, setting apart, purchases, redemptions, defeasances, retirements, acquisitions and distributions being herein called "Restricted Payments"); provided that, except: (a) (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, payments by the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock ▇.▇. Childs for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material management services pursuant to the interests of the Lenders, when taken Management Fee Agreement as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by under Section 10.1) of such Person9.11; (b) any Subsidiary of the Borrower may pay cash dividends to the Borrower or to a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower; (c) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital shares of Common Stock of any Parent Entity from Management Holders so long as the sole consideration paid by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in connection with such repurchases is the issuance of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrantssubordinated notes described in Section 9.2(h), and (ii) the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable interest on such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividendssubordinated notes, provided that any the sum of all such Dividend shall not cause interest payments under this clause (c) together with the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(hrepurchases permitted under clause (d) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceedbelow, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of shall not exceed $500,000 in any given year; and (id) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) ifredeem or repurchase for cash, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividendsat fair value, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower (or options to purchase capital stock) from the net cash proceeds any employee of the initial public offering Borrower upon the death, disability, retirement or other termination of the Capital Stock of Holdings;such employee, provided, that all such repurchases under this clause (d) together with all interest payments under clause (c) above, shall not exceed $500,000 in any given year.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Credit Agreement (Universal Hospital Services Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not pay Declare any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, on any shares of any class of its Capital Stock stock, or the Capital Stock of make any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)payment on account of, or set aside any funds apart assets for any a sinking or other analogous fund for, the purchase, redemption, retirement or other acquisition of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerstock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Company or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) its Subsidiaries (all of the foregoing being referred to herein as DividendsRestricted Payments”); provided except that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or Subsidiaries may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole dividends directly or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material indirectly to the interests of Company or to Domestic Subsidiaries which are directly or indirectly wholly-owned by the LendersCompany, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary Foreign Subsidiaries may pay Dividends payable solely in dividends directly or indirectly to Foreign Subsidiaries which are directly or indirectly wholly-owned by the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such PersonCompany; (b) the Company may pay dividends to HoldCo in an amount equal to the amount required for HoldCo to pay franchise taxes, fees and expenses necessary to maintain its status as a corporation, and other fees required to maintain its corporate existence, provided that HoldCo shall promptly pay such taxes, fees and expenses; (c) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing occurred or would result therefromoccur after giving effect to such declaration or payment, the Borrower may redeemCompany may, acquirefrom time to time, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends cash dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, HoldCo on the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or common stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, Company in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in 15,000,000 (the “HoldCo Dividend Limit”); provided that the proceeds of such dividends shall be used within 30 days of the receipt of such dividends by HoldCo to repurchase HoldCo stock from management employees of HoldCo or any fiscal year plus any actualof its Subsidiaries and, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made provided further, the HoldCo Dividend Limit shall be increased by directors or officers the proceeds of any Parent Entity additional HoldCo capital stock which is issued to any management employees of HoldCo or any of its Subsidiaries so long as such proceeds are contributed by HoldCo to the capital of the BorrowerCompany; (iiid) any Permitted Minority-Interest Subsidiary may declare and pay dividends and make other Restricted Payments with respect to the proceeds capital stock of which shall be used to pay (such Subsidiary now or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity hereafter outstanding; provided, in the case of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other feesa dividend, taxes and expenses required to maintain any each stockholder of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existencesuch Subsidiary receives its ratable share thereof; (ive) subject to applicable subordination provisions the proceeds of which shall be used to Company may declare and pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b))regularly scheduled semi-annual dividends on the Subordinated Preferred Stock when due; (vf) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (Company may exchange at par all or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity a portion of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this AgreementSubordinated Preferred Stock for a Company Subordinated Note; (vig) subject to the proceeds applicable subordination provisions, the Company may pay dividends to HoldCo in an amount equal to the amount required to be paid by HoldCo in respect of which shall the HoldCo Notes; provided, that, such dividend payment may only be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof made to the extent that such salariesinterest is not otherwise being paid pursuant to payments on the Subordinated Notes and only so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred or would result therefrom; provided further, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation that any such dividend payments occur within one (1) Business Day of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactionssuch interest coming due; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower Company may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the Restricted Payments to HoldCo in an aggregate amount of all not to exceed $25,000,000; provided however, that no such Dividends Restricted Payment shall be made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after by the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Company if a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing then exists or would result therefrom, an amount equal to from the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time making of such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount;Restricted Payment; and (i) the Borrower Company may make additional Dividends pursuant Restricted Payments to this clause HoldCo, if at the time of each such Restricted Payment (i) if, and after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, effect thereto) the Borrower would be in compliance with a ratio of Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio computed on a pro forma basis as of the most recently ended Test Period on completed period of four consecutive fiscal quarters is less than or prior equal to date 5.0 to 1.0 (and including in such calculation of Consolidated Total Indebtedness the amount of any Indebtedness the proceeds of which are used to fund such Restricted Payment) provided, however, that no such Restricted Payments shall be made by the Company if a Default or Event of Default then exists or would result from the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends Restricted Payments. All pro forma calculations required to allow any Parent Entity to) be made pursuant to this paragraph shall (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) include only those adjustments that are based on reasonably detailed written assumptions reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and (ii) honor any conversion request be certified to by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments Responsible Officer as having been prepared in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;good faith based upon reasonable assumptions.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Credit Agreement (Citadel Broadcasting Corp)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than (i) dividends payable solely in common stock of Holdings or the Capital Company, as the case may be, and (ii) dividends on the Preferred Stock payable solely in additional shares of the BorrowerPreferred Stock) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of Holdings or the Company or any Parent Entity warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of Holdings, the Company or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)Subsidiary, or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided except that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or Company may pay Dividends cash dividends to permit Holdings to pay any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem taxes or expenses required to be paid by Holdings in whole or in part any the ordinary course of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; business, provided that in no event shall the aggregate proceeds of dividends made pursuant to this clause (a) which have not been applied to pay the obligations in respect of which such dividends were made exceed $200,000 for any terms and provisions material to the interests period of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Personfive consecutive Business Days; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurredshall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom (or, in the case of clause (ii) below (to the extent the repurchase or redemption referred to in said clause is being effected pursuant to Section 7.11(a)(ii)(x), (y) or (z)), so long as no Specified Event shall have occurred and be continuing), the Company may pay cash dividends to Holdings (i) to the extent necessary to enable Holdings to repurchase shares of its common stock or options to purchase such common stock, provided, that (x) the aggregate amount so distributed to Holdings in any fiscal year shall not exceed the sum of (I) $5,000,000 and (II) an amount equal to the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds of any sale of shares of common stock by Holdings to any officer or employee of Holdings, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries consummated after the Effective Date which have been contributed to the capital of the Company minus the aggregate amount distributed to Holdings pursuant to this clause (II) for the purpose of repurchasing common stock of Holdings or options to purchase such common stock during any preceding fiscal year and (y) the Net Cash Proceeds of any subsequent sale of shares of common stock by Holdings to any officer or employee of Holdings, the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall promptly thereafter be contributed to the capital of the Company to the extent of the aggregate amount of cash distributions theretofore made pursuant to this clause (i), the Company shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a certified copy of each agreement in respect of which such dividend is being made; (ii) to the extent necessary to enable Holdings to pay any annual management fee expressly permitted by Section 7.12; (iii) constituting payments required to be made by the Company to Holdings pursuant to the Tax Sharing Agreement and (iv) to the extent necessary to enable Holdings to pay cash dividends on the Preferred Stock in accordance with Section 7.8(c); provided that Holdings shall pay each obligation in respect of which a dividend is made pursuant to this clause (b) no later than five Business Days after the date on which such dividend is made; (c) so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, Holdings may pay cash dividends on the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Preferred Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms thereof, provided, that (x) the aggregate amount so paid by Holdings shall not exceed (i) $5,000,000 in any fiscal year ending on or prior to December 31, 1998 or (ii) $10,000,000 in any fiscal year thereafter and (y) the aggregate amount so paid by Holdings in any fiscal year of any stock option or stock appreciation rights planHoldings, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, when added to the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all Capital Expenditures made during such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect fiscal year pursuant to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemedSection 7.10(g), acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does shall not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during EBITDA Basket Amount for such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;

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Sources: Credit Agreement (BCP/Essex Holdings Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the BorrowerPerson making such dividend) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary or any warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or otherwise acquire for consideration (hereafter outstanding, or make any other than distribution in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerany Subsidiary (collectively, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”"RESTRICTED PAYMENTS"); provided , except that: (a) (i) any Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Wholly Owned Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such PersonGuarantor; (b) any Subsidiary may declare and pay pro rata cash dividends to Persons other than the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, PROVIDED, that the aggregate amount of payments under this paragraph shall not exceed $5,000,000 or, if as of the last day of each of three consecutive fiscal quarters ending subsequent to the date hereof Consolidated EBITDA for the four consecutive fiscal quarters ending on such days shall exceed $100,000,000, $10,000,000; and (c) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefromshall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire purchase its Common Stock or repurchase (and Common Stock options from present or former officers of the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, Subsidiaries upon the death, disability, retirement disability or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights planofficer, any managementPROVIDED, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, that the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed payments under this paragraph during the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect term of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) Agreement shall not exceed $2,000,000 in any 12-month period and $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Credit Agreement (Friendlys Restaurants Franchise Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not pay any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and 180 LPL – Conformed A&R Credit Agreement provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests);; 181 LPL – Conformed A&R Credit Agreement (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries;; 182 LPL – Conformed A&R Credit Agreement (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not 183 LPL – Conformed A&R Credit Agreement exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Fourth Amendment (LPL Financial Holdings Inc.)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not pay any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present current or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of managementconsultants, independent contractors or consultants directors and employees (or their respective Immediate Family Members spouses, former spouses, successors, executors, administrators, heirs, legatees or permitted transfereesdistributees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary non‑discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any other present or former employees, directors, officers, managersconsultants, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) employees and directors in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man key‑man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the TransactionsTransactions (including the Special Dividend, all or a portion of which may be paid after the Closing Date but in no event later than June 15, 2012); (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) on or after the Fourth Amendment No. 1 Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at greater of (x) $250,000,000 and (y) 6.75% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured as of the time date such Dividend is paidpaid based upon the Section 9.1 Financials most recently delivered on or prior to such date), plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, paid plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, paid plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Incremental Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.002.0:1.0; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Membersimmediate family members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;

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Sources: Incremental Tranche B Term Loans (LPL Financial Holdings Inc.)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other ----------------------- than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the BorrowerPerson making such dividend) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted its Subsidiaries or any warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or otherwise acquire for consideration (hereafter outstanding, or make any other than distribution in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) its Subsidiaries (all of the foregoing “Dividends”collectively, "Restricted Payments"); provided , except that:: --------------------- (a) (i) any Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted wholly Owned Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such PersonGuarantor; (b) any payments made to the former shareholders of Holdings pursuant to Section 1.11 of the Transaction Agreement; (c) payments made on or before the Closing Date in respect of the redemption of Capital Stock of Holdings held by existing shareholders in connection with the merger of DI Acquisition into Holdings; (d) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefromshall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire pay dividends to the Company to permit the Company to pay dividends to Holdings for the sole purpose of (i) purchasing Holdings' common stock or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds common stock options from present or former officers or employees of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire Holdings or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, Subsidiaries upon the death, disability, retirement disability or termination of employment of any such Person officer or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights planemployee, any managementprovided, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, that the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of payments --------- under this clause (i) shall not exceed $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained 2,000,000 during any fiscal year of the Borrower and $5,000,000 during the term of this Agreement, net, in any case, of any proceeds received by Holdings or and contributed to the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with resales of any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received common stock or common stock options so purchased during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 relevant period and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends paying management fees to the Borrower ▇▇▇▇ Capital and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions ▇▇▇▇ Affiliates expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section;7.10(iii); and (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants pay dividends to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of Company to permit the exercise price of such options or warrants, Company and the Borrower may pay Dividends Holdings to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating corporate overhead expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 250,000 in any fiscal year plus year, (ii) pay any actualtaxes which are due and payable by Holdings as part of a consolidated group of which the Company and the Borrower are members (provided that the amount of such dividends shall not exceed the lesser of (x) the actual cash tax liability of Holdings which is then due and payable to Governmental Authorities and (y) the cash tax liability which would be owing by the Company and its Subsidiaries to Governmental Authorities on a stand-alone basis), reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof relating to the extent such salariesCompany Zeros and (v) beginning in fiscal year 2002, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed pay interest in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred cash on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;Company Zeros.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Credit Agreement (Details Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of Parent or the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or otherwise acquire for consideration (hereafter outstanding, or make any other than distribution in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerany Subsidiary (such declarations, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”payments, setting apart, purchases, redemptions, defeasances, retirements, acquisitions and distributions being herein called "Restricted Payments"); provided , except that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends make Restricted Payments to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the LendersParent, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as (except with respect to clause (iii) below or with respect to clause (iv) below such a Restricted Payment may be made except when an Event of Default which relates to a payment default pursuant to Section 12(a) has occurred and is continuing) no Default or Event of Default has occurred, occurred or is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before after giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay DividendsPayment: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay the reasonable overhead of Parent (including out of pocket expenses for administrative, legal and accounting services or to make Dividends pay franchise fees or similar costs) in an amount not to allow exceed $1,000,000 per year; (ii) payments, the proceeds of which will be used to repurchase the Capital Stock or other securities of Parent from outside directors, employees or members of management of Parent or any Parent Entity Subsidiary, at a price not in excess of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of businessfair market value, in an aggregate amount not to exceed in excess of $3,000,000 2,500,000 in any fiscal year plus any actualof the Borrower and $5,000,000 in the aggregate for the duration of this Agreement, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made 76 71 net of the proceeds received by directors or officers the Borrower as a result of any Parent Entity resales of the Borrowerany such Capital Stock or other securities; (iii) payments, the proceeds of which shall will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any taxes of Parent Entity as part of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existencea consolidated group; (iv) payments, the proceeds of which shall will be used to pay (or management fees to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) Hick▇ ▇▇▇e & Co. Partners, L.P. in accordance with the terms of its monitoring and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b))oversight agreement and the financial advisory agreement; (v) if such Restricted Payment is a purchase of Capital Stock or a distribution to Parent to permit Parent to purchase its Capital Stock, in either case, made in order to fulfil the obligations of Parent, the Borrower or any Subsidiary under an employee stock purchase plan or similar plan covering employees of Parent or any Subsidiary as from time to time in effect in an aggregate net amount not to exceed $1,000,000; and (vi) payments, the proceeds of which shall will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (Senior Discount Notes or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding Seller Subordinated Notes if permitted hereunder, including, but not limited to, prepayments or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders Seller Subordinated Notes or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;Senior Discount Notes permitted by subsection 11.16(b).

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Sources: Credit Agreement (Ero Marketing Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not pay Declare any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, on any shares of any class of its Capital Stock stock, or the Capital Stock of make any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)payment on account of, or set aside any funds apart assets for any a sinking or other analogous fund for, the purchase, redemption, retirement or other acquisition of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerstock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Company or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”)its Subsidiaries; provided except that: (a) Subsidiaries may pay dividends directly or indirectly to the Company or to Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiaries and Foreign Subsidiaries may pay dividends directly or indirectly to Foreign Subsidiaries which are directly or indirectly wholly-owned by the Company; (b) the Company and its Subsidiaries may pay or make dividends or distributions to any holder of its capital stock in the form of additional shares of capital stock of the same class and type; (c) the Company may effect one or more Qualified Stock Repurchases if (i) the Borrower may (no Default or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole Event of Default has occurred or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenderswould occur after giving effect thereto, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower Company shall be in compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 9.1 in each case calculated on a pro-forma basis as of the last day of the fiscal quarter ending immediately preceding the date of such Qualified Stock Repurchase for which the relevant financial information has been delivered to the Lenders pursuant to Section 8.1 or 8.2, as applicable, giving effect to such cash dividend or distribution as if it had been made on the first day of the Measurement Period ending on the last day of such fiscal quarter and (iii) for an aggregate consideration for all such purchases from and after June 11, 2008, aggregated with the total of all amounts paid under Section 9.12(a)(v) if (but only if) at the time of any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely purchase the Secured Leverage Ratio of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries equals or exceeds 2.75 to 1.00 (calculated on a pro forma basis as of the last day of the fiscal quarter ending immediately preceding the date of any such Qualified Stock Repurchase for which the relevant financial information has been delivered to the Lenders pursuant to Section 8.1 or 8.2, as applicable, giving effect to such Qualified Stock Repurchase as if it had been made on the first day of the Measurement Period ending on the last day of such fiscal quarter), not exceeding $150,000,000 in the Capital Stock aggregate, which amount shall be increased in the case of each such purchase if at the time such purchase is made the Secured Leverage Ratio (other calculated as aforesaid) is less than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted 2.75 to 1.0, by Section 10.1) of such Person;any then remaining Available Amount; and (bd) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing occurred or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, occur after giving effect to such Dividenddeclaration or payment, the sum Company may declare and pay cash dividends or cash distributions to any holders of its Equity Interests, provided that, after giving effect thereto the Company (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred is in pro forma compliance with the Total Leverage Ratio and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount Interest Coverage Ratio at the respective levels applicable thereto at such time in accordance with Section 9.1, as each such Dividend ratio so specified is paidreduced (in the case of Section 9.1(a)) or increased (in the case of Section 9.1(b)) by 0.50 to 1.00 from the applicable levels set forth in Section 9.1, plus (ii) so long the Secured Leverage Ratio of the Company and its Consolidated Subsidiaries is less than 2.50 to 1.00, in each case calculated on a pro forma basis as no Event of Default the last day of the fiscal quarter ending immediately preceding the effective date of such cash dividend or distribution for which the relevant financial information has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal been delivered to the Lenders pursuant to Section 8.1 or 8.2, as applicable, giving effect to such cash dividend or distribution as if it had been made on the first day of the Measurement Period ending on the last day of such fiscal quarter, and (iii) each such dividend or distribution is funded solely with any then remaining Available Amount at the time such Dividend dividend or distribution is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;made.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (Be Aerospace Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower If at any time (i) an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing (other than solely an Event of Default under Section 5.1(c) hereof), (ii) there shall have occurred any event of which the Company has actual knowledge that (a) is, or with the giving of notice or the lapse of time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default (other than solely an Event of Default under Section 5.1(c) hereof) and (b) in respect of which the Company shall not have taken reasonable steps to cure, (iii) if the Securities are held by the Property Trustee, the Company shall be in default with respect to its payment obligations under the Capital Securities Guarantee or (iv) the Company shall have given notice of its election of the exercise of its right to extend the interest payment period pursuant to Section 16.1 and has not rescinded such notice and any such extension shall have commenced, then, in each such case, the Company will not (i) declare or pay any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchdistributions on, or redeem, retirepurchase, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationmake a liquidation payment with respect to, any shares of the Company's capital stock or (ii) make any class payment of its Capital Stock principal, interest or premium, if any, on or repay or repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Capital Stock Company (including any Other Debentures) that rank pari passu with or junior in right of payment to the Securities or (iii) make any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued guarantee payments with respect to any guarantee by the Company of its Capital Stock)any securities of any Subsidiary of the Company (including Other Guarantees) if such guarantee ranks pari passu or junior in right of payment to the Securities, other than (a) dividends or distributions in shares of, or set aside options, warrants or rights to subscribe for or purchase shares of, Common Stock or preferred stock of the Company; (b) any funds declaration of a dividend in connection with the implementation of a stockholder's rights plan, or the issuance of stock under any such plan in the future, or the redemption or repurchase of any such rights pursuant thereto; (c) payments under the Capital Securities Guarantee; (d) as a direct result of, and only to the extent required in order to avoid the issuance of fractional shares of capital stock following a reclassification of the Company's capital stock or the exchange or the conversion of one class or series of the Company's capital stock for another class or series of the Company's capital stock; (e) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged; and (f) purchases of Common Stock related to the issuance of Common Stock or rights under any of the foregoing purposesCompany's benefit plans for its directors, officers or permit the Borrower employees or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;Company's dividend reinvestment plans.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (New York Bancorp Capital Trust)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not pay any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or 172 LPL – A&R Credit Agreement equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, 173 LPL – A&R Credit Agreement legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.002.0:1.0; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms;; 174 LPL – A&R Credit Agreement (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;

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Sources: Fourth Amendment Agreement (LPL Financial Holdings Inc.)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower If at any time (i) an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing (other than solely an Event of Default under Section 5.1(c) hereof), (ii) there shall have occurred any event of which the Company has actual knowledge that (a) is, or with the giving of notice or the lapse of time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default (other than solely an Event of Default under Section 5.1(c) hereof) and (b) in respect of which the Company shall not have taken reasonable steps to cure, (iii) if the Securities are held by the Property Trustee, the Company shall be in default with respect to its payment obligations under the Capital Securities Guarantee or (iv) the Company shall have given notice of its election of the exercise of its right to extend the interest payment period pursuant to Section 16.1 and has not rescinded such notice and any such extension shall have commenced, then, in each such case, the Company will not (i) declare or pay any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchdistributions on, or redeem, retirepurchase, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationmake a liquidation payment with respect to, any shares of the Company's capital stock or (ii) make any class payment of its Capital Stock principal, interest or premium, if any, on or repay or repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Capital Stock Company (including any Other Debentures) that rank pari passu with or junior in right of payment to the Securities or (iii) make any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued guarantee payments with respect to any guarantee by the Company of its Capital Stock)any securities of any Subsidiary of the Company (including Other Guarantees) if such guarantee ranks pari passu or junior in right of payment to the Securities, other than (a) dividends or distributions in shares of, or set aside any funds options, warrants or rights to subscribe for any or purchase shares of, Common Stock or preferred stock of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or Company; (b) any declaration of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than a dividend in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5the implementation of a stockholder's rights plan, or the issuance of stock under any such plan in the future, or the redemption or repurchase of any such rights pursuant thereto; (c) any payments under the Capital Securities Guarantee; (d) as a direct result of, and only to the extent required in order to avoid the issuance of fractional shares of any class capital stock following a reclassification of the Capital Stock Company's capital stock or the exchange or the conversion of any Parent Entity one class or series of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or Company's capital stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests series of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreementCompany's capital stock; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock purchase of any Parent Entity fractional interests in shares of the Borrower, Company's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options security being converted or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, exchanged; and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds purchases of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only Common Stock related to the extent issuance of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries Common Stock or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain rights under any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (Company's benefit plans for its directors, officers or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;employees.

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Sources: Indenture (Life Financial Capital Trust)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the BorrowerPerson making such dividend) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary or any warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or otherwise acquire for consideration (hereafter outstanding, or make any other than distribution in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerany Subsidiary (collectively, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”"Restricted Payments"); provided , except that: (a) (i) any Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Wholly Owned Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such PersonGuarantor; (b) Permitted Issuances may be made; (c) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurredshall have occurred and be continuing, is continuing Holdings may (i) purchase Holding's common stock or would result therefromcommon stock options from present or former officers or employees of Holdings, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, Subsidiary upon the death, disability, retirement disability or termination of employment of any such Person officer or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights planemployee, any managementprovided, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, that the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of payments under this clause (i) during any fiscal year shall not exceed $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained 2,500,000 net of any proceeds received by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with resales of any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount common stock or common stock options so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 purchased and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends pay management fees to the Borrower Hick▇ ▇▇▇e and to Restricted Subsidiaries (its Affiliates expressly permitted by subsection 7.10; and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower may declare dividends on the Preferred Stock as set forth in the terms of the Preferred Stock, provided, that the Borrower may not pay such dividends in cash on or prior to May 31, 2002; and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and provided further that the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrowerdividends in cash after May 31, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) 2002 so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would occur as a result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time of such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred payment and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, provides the Borrower would be in Administrative Agent with a certificate showing compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as all of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of covenants contained in subsection 7.1 (with appropriate supporting documentation if requested by the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(cAdministrative Agent), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (STC Broadcasting Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the BorrowerPerson making such dividend) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of Details or any Parent Entity of its Subsidiaries or any warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any options other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or warrants indirectly, whether in cash or stock appreciation property or similar rights issued with respect to in obligations of Details or any of its Capital StockSubsidiaries (collectively, "Restricted Payments"), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided except that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Personmake Restricted Payments to Details or any Wholly Owned Subsidiary Guarantor; (b) any payments made to the former shareholders of Holdings pursuant to Section 1.11 of the Recapitalization Agreement; (c) any payments on the DCI Preferred Stock on the terms in existence on the date hereof and any payments of Deferred Payment Amounts; (d) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurredshall have occurred and be continuing, is continuing Details may pay dividends to the Company to permit the Company to pay dividends directly, or would result therefromindirectly through the Company or New Intermediate Holdco, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire to Holdings to permit Holdings to (i) purchase Holdings' common stock or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds common stock options from present or former officers or employees of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire Holdings or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, Subsidiaries upon the death, disability, retirement disability or termination of employment of any such Person officer or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights planemployee, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, that the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of payments under this clause (i) shall not exceed $4,000,000 during any fiscal year of Details and $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained during the term of this Agreement, net, in any case, of any proceeds received by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock and contributed to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) Details in connection with resales of any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received common stock or common stock options so purchased during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 relevant period and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends pay management fees to the Borrower ▇▇▇▇ Capital and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions Bain Affiliates expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section;7.10(m); and (e) the Borrower Details may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants pay dividends to the extent such Capital Stock represents all Company to permit the Company, New Intermediate Holdco or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends Holdings to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating corporate overhead expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 500,000 in any fiscal year plus year, (ii) pay any actualtaxes which are due and payable by Holdings as part of a consolidated group of which the Company, reasonable New Intermediate Holdco and customary indemnification claims made Details are members (provided that the amount of such dividends shall not exceed the lesser of (x) the actual cash tax liability of Holdings which is then due and payable to Governmental Authorities and (y) the cash tax liability which would be owing by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; Company and its Subsidiaries to Governmental Authorities on a stand-alone basis), (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof relating to the extent such salariesCompany Zeros and the New Intermediate Holdco Notes, bonuses (iv) beginning no earlier than July 2002, pay interest in cash on the Company Zeros, (v) no earlier than December 2003 and other benefits are attributable so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, make all or any portion of the AHYDO Payment; provided, that (w) prior to Details making the dividend to permit all or any portion of the AHYDO Payment to be made, Details shall provide a certificate to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing DividendsAdministrative Agent, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided certifying that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceedon a pro forma basis, after giving effect to such Dividenddividend it is in compliance with all of the covenants contained in Section 7.1, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (ix) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant shall not be permitted to this clause borrow under the Revolving Credit Facility to finance such dividend and (iy) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day amount of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) dividend shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; lesser of (lI) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) then unused Permitted Expenditure Amount plus $7,500,000 and (pII) $35,000,000, and (subject to the conditions set out therein); (mvi) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereofthe AHYDO Payment, if at pay interest in cash on the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;New Intermediate Holdco Notes.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (Ddi Corp)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not No Loan Party shall declare or pay any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital its Stock of the Borrower(other than Disqualified Stock) or dividends permitted by clause (e) below) or return any capital to its equity holders stockholders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders stockholders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or other Equity Interests or the Capital Stock or other Equity Interests of any Parent Entity direct or indirect parent now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)outstanding, or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) purposes (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that, this Section 10.2.6 shall not prevent any Dividend if the Payment Condition is met with respect to such Dividend or payment at the time thereof and after giving effect thereto; provided, further, that: (a) so long as no Event of Default exists or would exist after giving effect thereto, the Loan Parties and their Restricted Subsidiaries (iother than the Unit Subsidiary) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock or other Equity Interests for another class of Capital its Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock other Equity Interests or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; Stock or other Equity Interests, provided that any such new Stock or other Equity Interests contain terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders in all respects material to their interests as those contained in the Capital Stock or other Equity Interests redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Personthereby; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing exists or would result therefromexist after giving effect thereto, the Borrower Loan Parties and their Restricted Subsidiaries (other than the Unit Subsidiary) may redeem(or may make Dividends to permit any direct or indirect parent thereof to) repurchase shares of Holdings’ (or a Parent Entity’s) Stock or other Equity Interests held by present or former officers, acquiredirectors, retire employees or repurchase (consultants of the Loan Parties and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock Restricted Subsidiaries (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to parent), so redeemlong as such repurchase is pursuant to, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights planthe terms of, any management, director management and/or employee stock ownership or incentive planplans, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreementshareholder agreements; provided thatprovided, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, that the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed in any calendar year the sum of (i) $10,000,000 (with unused amounts in any calendar year being carried over to succeeding calendar years; provided that Dividends made under this clause (b)(i) do not exceed $20,000,000 in any calendar year); plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds amounts obtained by Holdings (or a Parent Entity) (to the Borrower extent contributed to a Borrower) during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock or other Equity Interests to any present or former employeesother officers, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors employees or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of Holdings and its Subsidiaries in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds amounts obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding ; (c) so long as no Event of Default exists or would exist after giving effect thereto, the foregoingLoan Parties and their Restricted Subsidiaries (other than the Unit Subsidiary) may pay additional Dividends in an aggregate amount not to exceed $30,000,000, 100% of (x) less the unused amount of voluntary prepayments, repurchases, redemptions, other defeasances and sinking fund payments in respect of this Junior Debt made pursuant to Section 10.6(b)(i10.2.7(a)(i) and (before giving effect y) subject to any carry forwardreductions (if any) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years required by clause (but not any other2) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this of Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests10.2.5(k)(ii); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower each Loan Party and any each Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) (A) so long as no Specified Default exists or would exist after giving effect thereto, to its direct or indirect parent in amounts sufficient (when combined with loans and advances made by the proceeds Loan Parties for such purpose under Section 10.2.5(g)(iv)) for any such parent to pay its income tax obligations for so long as such Loan Party is a member of which a group filing a consolidated, combined, unitary, affiliated or other similar tax return with such parent; provided the amount of Dividends paid under this clause (i) in respect of income tax obligations is limited to the extent such tax liability is directly attributable to the taxable income of such Loan Party (that are included in such consolidated, combined, unitary, affiliated or other similar tax return), determined as if such Loan Party and its Restricted Subsidiaries filed a separate consolidated, combined, unitary, affiliated or other similar tax return as a stand-alone group and will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity direct or indirect parent to pay) ), within 30 days of the receipt thereof, the tax liability to in each relevant jurisdiction in respect of such consolidated, combined, unitary unitary, affiliated or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiariesother similar returns; (ii) so long as no Specified Default exists or would exist after giving effect thereto, the proceeds of which (when combined with loans and advances made by the Loan Parties for such purpose under Section 10.2.5(g)(iv)) shall be used to allow any direct or indirect parent of such Loan Party to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to payA) its accrued operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course Ordinary Course of business Business and other accrued corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course Ordinary Course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in Business of Arrow Bidco (or any fiscal year Parent Entity) plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of Arrow Bidco (or any Parent Entity Entity) attributable to the ownership or operations of the BorrowerArrow Bidco and its Subsidiaries or (B) fees and expenses otherwise (1) due and payable by Arrow Bidco or any of its Subsidiaries and (2) permitted to be paid by Arrow Bidco or such Subsidiary under this Agreement; (iii) [Reserved]; (iv) without duplication of clause (i), above, the proceeds of which (when combined with loans and advances made by the Loan Parties for such purpose in reliance on Section 10.2.5(g)(iv)) shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any the corporate existence of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity within 30 days of the receipt thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) constituting repurchases of Stock or other Equity Interests upon the proceeds cashless exercise of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement;stock options; and (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used are applied on the Closing Date, solely to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants effect the consummation of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (he) (i) any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party may pay Dividends to a Loan Party or any other Restricted Subsidiary and (ii) any Loan Party may pay a Dividend to any other Loan Party or to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party if, in addition the case of a payment to a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party, such Dividend is part of a series of transactions by which such Dividend is ultimately and promptly paid to a Loan Party; (f) the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower Borrowers may make additional DividendsDividends in an amount not to exceed the portion, if any, of the Available Excluded Contribution Amount on such date that the Administrative Borrower elects to apply to this clause (f); provided that any such Dividend shall not cause be made within 90 days after the aggregate amount receipt of all such Available Excluded Contribution Amount; (g) the Loan Parties and other Restricted Subsidiaries may make additional Dividends made within 60 days after the date of the declaration thereof or the provision of a redemption notice with respect thereto, as the case may be, if (i) at the date of such declaration or notice, such D▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ would have complied with another provision of this Section 10.2.6 and (ii) the Administrative Borrower reasonably expects, as of such date of declaration or such date of provision of a redemption notice, the Loan Parties and the other Restricted Subsidiaries to be able to comply with such other provision of this Section 10.2.6 through either (x) the end of such sixty (60) day period or (y) if earlier, the latest date on which such declaration or provision of a redemption notice allows for such Dividend to be made; provided that the making of any such Dividend will reduce capacity for Dividends pursuant to such other provision of this Section 10.6(h) after 10.2.6 when the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend declaration or provision of a redemption notice is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of so made; and (ih) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing exists or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, exist after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividendseffect thereto, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Administrative Borrower may make Dividends to Holdings or any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum not to exceed 6% of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of received by or contributed to Arrow Bidco from a capital contribution to Holdings or the initial public issuance or offering of the Capital Stock Equity Interests of Holdings;, other than (x) with respect to Disqualified Stock, (y) to the extent such proceeds constitute Available Excluded Contribution Amounts the Administrative Borrower has elected to apply to clause (f) above or (z) with respect to a Cure Amount.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Abl Credit Agreement (Target Hospitality Corp.)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other ----------------------- than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the BorrowerPerson making such dividend) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the BorrowerCompany or any Subsidiary or any warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Company or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) Subsidiary (all of the foregoing “Dividends”collectively, "Restricted Payments"); provided , except that:: ------------------- (a) any Subsidiary (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material make Restricted Payments to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby Company or any Wholly Owned Subsidiary Guarantor and (ii) if such Subsidiary is not a Wholly Owned Subsidiary, may make Restricted Payments to its shareholders generally, so long as the Borrower and any Restricted Company or its Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely which owns the equity or other ownership interests in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) Subsidiary making the Restricted Payment receives at least its proportionate share of such PersonRestricted Payment (based upon its relative ownership interest in the Subsidiary making such Restricted Payment); (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefromshall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower Company may redeem, acquire, retire purchase its common stock or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any common stock options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any from present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors officers or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity employees of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, Company or any Subsidiary (i) upon the death, disability, retirement disability or termination of employment of any such Person director, officer or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights planemployee, any managementprovided, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, that the aggregate -------- amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(bclause (b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers 2,000,000 during the term of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (ic) so long as no Default or Event of Default has shall have occurred and is or be continuing or would occur as a result therefromthereof, an the Company may pay regular quarterly dividends on its outstanding common stock, provided, that -------- the aggregate amount equal to of such dividends paid during any fiscal year of the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus Company shall not exceed $4,000,000; and (iid) so long as no Default or Event of Default has shall have occurred and is or be continuing or would occur as a result therefromthereof, an amount equal the Company may redeem rights granted to the Available Amount at shareholders of the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends Company pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with its shareholder rights plan for a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;nominal amount.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Credit and Guarantee Agreement (Exide Corp)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than ----------------------- dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the BorrowerPerson making such dividend) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted its Subsidiaries or any warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or otherwise acquire for consideration (hereafter outstanding, or make any other than distribution in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (collectively, "Restricted Payments"), except that: -------------------- (a) any Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to the Borrower or any Wholly Owned Subsidiary Guarantor; (b) any payments made to the former shareholders of the Company pursuant to Section 1.11 of the Transaction Agreement; (c) payments made on or before the Closing Date in respect of the redemption of Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued Company held by existing shareholders in connection with respect to any the merger of DI Acquisition into the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such PersonCompany; (bd) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefromshall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire pay dividends to the Company to permit the Company to (i) purchase the Company's common stock or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire common stock options from present or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (former officers or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any employees of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire Company or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, Subsidiaries upon the death, disability, retirement disability or termination of employment of any such Person officer or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights planemployee, any managementprovided, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, that the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of payments -------- under this clause (i) shall not exceed $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or 2,000,000 during any fiscal year of the Borrower and $5,000,000 during such calendar year from the sale term of such Capital Stock this Agreement, net, in any case, of any proceeds received by the Company and contributed to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) the Borrower in connection with resales of any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received common stock or common stock options so purchased during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 relevant period and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends pay management fees to the Borrower ▇▇▇▇ Capital and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions ▇▇▇▇ Affiliates expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section;7.10(iii); and (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants pay dividends to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of Company to permit the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends Company to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating corporate overhead expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 250,000 in any fiscal year plus year, (ii) pay any actualtaxes which are due and payable by the Company and the Borrower as part of a consolidated group, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof relating to the extent such salariesCompany Zeros and (v) beginning in fiscal year 2002, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed pay interest in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred cash on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;Company Zeros.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Credit Agreement (Details Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not pay Declare any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, on any shares of any class of its Capital Stock stock, or the Capital Stock of make any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)payment on account of, or set aside any funds apart assets for any a sinking or other analogous fund for, the purchase, redemption, retirement or other acquisition of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerstock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Company or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) its Subsidiaries (all of the foregoing being referred to herein as DividendsRestricted Payments”); provided except that: (a) Subsidiaries may pay dividends directly or indirectly to the Company or to Domestic Subsidiaries which are directly or indirectly wholly-owned by the Company, and Foreign Subsidiaries may pay dividends directly or indirectly to Foreign Subsidiaries which are directly or indirectly wholly-owned by the Company; (b) so long as (i) the Borrower may (no Default or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole Event of Default then exists or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby would result therefrom and (ii) the Borrower Company is in pro forma compliance with the applicable Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio as of the most recently completed period of four consecutive fiscal quarters ending prior to such Restricted Payment for which the financial statements and any certificates required by subsections 7.1 and 7.2 have been delivered, determined after giving pro forma effect to such Restricted Subsidiary Payment as if such Restricted Payment had occurred as of the first day of such period, and using Consolidated Total Indebtedness as of the date of, and after giving effect to, such Restricted Payment, the Company may pay Dividends payable solely dividends and repurchase shares of any class of capital stock in an aggregate amount not to exceed the Capital Stock sum of (other than Disqualified Capital Stock x) $25,000,000 plus (y) Cumulative Retained Excess Cash Flow to the extent not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Personused to finance a Permitted Acquisition or asset swap pursuant to subsection 8.6(q); (bc) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing then exists or would result therefrom, the Borrower Company may redeem, acquire, retire purchase its common stock or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire common stock options from former officers or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any employees of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire Company or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, Subsidiaries upon the death, disability, retirement disability or termination of employment of any such Person officer or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights planemployee, any managementprovided, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to that the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of under this Section 10.6(b)(i) clause (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(hc) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Closing Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) aggregate in any fiscal year of the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6Company; and (nd) so long as no Default or Event of Default is continuing then exists or would result therefromtherefrom , the Borrower Company may make Dividends payments and/or net shares under employee benefit plans to any Parent Entity so settle option price payments owed by employees and directors with respect thereto, make payments in respect of or purchase restricted stock units and similar stock based awards thereunder and to settle employees’ and directors’ federal, state and income tax liabilities (if any) related thereto, provided that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount of payments made by the Company after the Closing Date shall not exceeding exceed $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;5,000,000 in any fiscal year.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (Citadel Broadcasting Corp)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock of the Borrower or any warrants or options to purchase any such Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary (such declarations, payments, setting apart, purchases, redemptions, defeasances, retirements, acquisitions and distributions being herein called "Restricted Payments"). Notwithstanding the foregoing, however, the Borrower may repurchase the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect the Borrower pursuant to any currently existing or subsequently adopted stock repurchase program without any limitation, provided, that the ratio of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any Consolidated Total Indebtedness to Consolidated EBITDA as of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares last day of any class Rolling Period (calculated on a pro forma basis as if such repurchase of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding and the incurrence of any Indebtedness by any Loan Party in connection therewith, had occurred immediately prior to such day) is less than 1.00 to 1. From and after the last day of any Rolling Period (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued beginning with respect the Rolling Period ended immediately prior to any the December 2002 Amendment Effective Date) for which the ratio of Consolidated Total Indebtedness to Consolidated EBITDA as of the Capital Stock last day of any Parent Entity such Rolling Period (calculated on a pro forma basis as if such repurchase of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, and the incurrence of any Indebtedness by any Loan Party in connection therewith, had occurred immediately prior to such day) is 1.00 to 1 or greater (all of such day, the foregoing “Dividends”"Limitation Date"); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends shall be subject to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds a limitation of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise $15,000,000 in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of for all such shares repurchases of Capital Stock (the "Limitation") from and after the Limitation Date. The Limitation described previously shall not be applicable during any subsequent Rolling Period in which the ratio described herein for such Rolling Period is less than 1.00 to 1. For any subsequent Rolling Period in which the ratio described herein for such Rolling Period is 1.00 to 1 or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemedgreater, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) Limitation shall again be $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last 15,000,000 in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower aggregate from and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that after any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test subsequent Rolling Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;."

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Credit Agreement (Armor Holdings Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the BorrowerPerson making such dividend) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the BorrowerCompany or any Subsidiary or any warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Company or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) Subsidiary (all of the foregoing “Dividends”collectively, "Restricted Payments"); provided , except that: (a) any Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to the Company, Grove Capital or any Wholly Owned Subsidiary; (ib) the Borrower may (or Company may pay Dividends dividends to permit Holdings (and Holdings may pay any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any such dividends to the owners of its Capital Stock for another class or to Grove Investors) in order to enable the direct and indirect owners of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby of Holdings and Grove Investors to pay income taxes, determined at the Specified Rate, attributable to the taxable income of Holdings and its Subsidiaries; (c) after the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date and so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Company may pay dividends to Holdings in order to enable Holdings to pay interest when due on the Holdings Debentures; (d) after the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date and so long as (i) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and (ii) the Borrower and Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters ending on the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter is at least 2.5 to 1.0 (including on a pro-forma basis as Consolidated Interest Expense any Restricted Subsidiary dividends paid or to be paid in respect of such period permitted pursuant to this paragraph (d)), the Company may pay Dividends payable solely dividends to Holdings in order to enable Holdings to pay interest or scheduled dividends when due on the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such PersonHoldings Mezzanine Financing; (be) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefromshall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower may redeemrepurchase, acquire, retire redemption or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to other acquisition or retirement for value of any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock of Grove Investors or Holdings held by any member or former member of Grove Investors', Holdings' or the Company's (or any options of its Subsidiaries') Board of Directors or warrants any officers, employees, or stock appreciation directors or similar rights issued with respect former officers, employees or directors of Grove Investors', Holdings or the Company or any Subsidiary pursuant to Grove Investors' limited liability company operating agreement or pursuant to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeemequity subscription agreement, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or other similar agreement, and any other employment agreements dividends to Holdings to fund any such repurchase, redemption or equity holders’ agreement; acquisition, provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant subsequent to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreementClosing Date, the aggregate amount of all cash paid the preceding payments shall not exceed (x) $2,000,000 in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased calendar year 1998 and thereafter $5,000,000 in any calendar year does (with unused amounts, other than the $2,000,000 related to 1998 which may not exceed the sum be carried over, in any calendar year being carried over to succeeding calendar years subject to a maximum of (i$15,000,000 per calendar year) $10,000,000 plus (iiy) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained the aggregate cash proceeds received by Holdings or the Borrower Company during such calendar year from the sale any reissuance of such Capital Stock by Grove Investors, Holdings or the Company to any present Persons who are or former employeesbecome a member of Grove Investors', directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors Holdings' or consultants the Company's (or their respective Immediate Family Members any of its Subsidiaries') Board of Directors or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation an officer or employee of Grove Investors, Holdings or the Company and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoingprovided further, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); however, that, (i) subsequent to the extent constituting DividendsClosing Date, all such payments shall not exceed $15,000,000 plus the Borrower and aggregate cash proceeds received by the Company subsequent to the Closing Date from any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted reissuance of Capital Stock by Section 10.5 Grove Investors, Holdings or the Company and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to notwithstanding the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, parenthetical included in the case preceding clause (x), the aggregate amount of a Dividend any such payments in any calendar year shall not exceed $10,000,000 plus the aggregate cash proceeds received by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and Company during such calendar year from any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner reissuance of Capital Stock by Grove Investors, Holdings or the Company unless the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the period of such Restricted Subsidiary based four consecutive fiscal quarters ending on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, on the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity last day of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants most recently ended fiscal quarter is at least 2.5 to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases1.0; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower Company may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used dividends to pay (or Holdings to permit Holdings to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business administrative and other corporate overhead costs and expenses payments (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred taxes) in the ordinary course of business; and (g) the payment of dividends or making of loans or advances for costs and expenses incurred by Grove Investors or Holdings in either company's capacity as a holding company or as issuer of the Holdings Debentures or the Senior Debentures Due 2010 of Grove Investors (the "Grove Investors Debentures"), respectively, or for services rendered by Grove Investors or Holdings on behalf of the Company in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 2,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;year.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (Grove Investors Capital Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the BorrowerPerson making such dividend) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary or any warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or otherwise acquire for consideration (hereafter outstanding, or make any other than distribution in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerany Subsidiary (collectively, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”"Restricted Payments"); provided , except that: (a) (i) any Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Wholly Owned Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such PersonGuarantor; (b) any Subsidiary may declare and pay pro rata cash dividends to Persons other than the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, provided, that the aggregate amount of payments under this paragraph shall not exceed $5,000,000 or, if as of the last day of each of three consecutive fiscal quarters commencing with the fourth fiscal quarter of the Borrower's 1998 fiscal year Consolidated EBITDA for the four consecutive fiscal quarters ending on such days shall exceed $100,000,000, $10,000,000; and (c) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefromshall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire purchase its Common Stock or repurchase (and Common Stock options from present or former officers of the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, Subsidiaries upon the death, disability, retirement disability or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights planofficer, any managementprovided, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, that the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed payments under this paragraph during the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect term of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) Agreement shall not exceed $2,000,000 in any 12-month period and $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (Friendly Ice Cream Corp)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend on (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders ), or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary or any warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or otherwise acquire for consideration (hereafter outstanding, or make any other than distribution in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerany Subsidiary, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided except that: (a) (i) any Subsidiary may declare and pay dividends to or make other distributions to the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stockother Wholly-Owned Subsidiary which is a Guarantor; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person;and (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, (i) the Borrower, following the Initial Period, may redeem or purchase Capital Stock or rights to acquire Capital Stock using proceeds from the issuance of Capital Stock or rights to acquire Capital Stock, (ii) the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire use and issue its own Capital Stock (A) to purchase or repurchase (acquire issued and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) outstanding shares of its Capital Stock (Stock, warrants, options, debt instruments convertible into or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar other rights issued with respect to any of such purchase the Borrower's Capital Stock) , (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (iB) to satisfy the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion (C) in connection with any employee benefit plan of the exercise price of such options Borrower or warrantsits Subsidiaries, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (giii) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used redeem rights to pay (purchase preferred stock or common stock issued to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis 's shareholders for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual250,000 during the term of this Agreement, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) on or after the proceeds of which shall be used to Shell Transaction Completion Date, the Borrower may pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) dividends on the Preferred Stock and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds Borrower, following the Initial Period, may declare and pay cash dividends or, repurchase, redeem or acquire shares of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offeringits Capital Stock, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred more than $1,000,000 (and $2,000,000 after the Shell Transaction Completion Date) in the aggregate is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time expended for such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as purpose during any fiscal year of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;Borrower.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Credit Agreement (Meridian Resource Corp)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not (a) (a) Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock Convertible Preferred or common stock of the BorrowerMerisel) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of Merisel, or any Parent Entity warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of Merisel, or (b) enter into any derivative or other transaction with any financial institution, commodities or stock exchange or clearinghouse (a “Derivatives Counterparty”) obligating Merisel or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued Loan Party to make payments to such Derivatives Counterparty as a result of any change in value of any such Capital Stock (such declarations, payments, setting apart, purchases, redemptions, defeasances, retirements, acquisitions and distributions, and such transactions with respect to any of its Capital StockDerivatives Counterparties, being herein called “Restricted Payments”). Notwithstanding the foregoing clause (a), Merisel, at any time on or set aside any funds for any after the Restatement Effective Date, may effect one or more transactions that together shall cause Merisel to no longer be a reporting company under Sections 12 or 15 of the foregoing purposesExchange Act (the “Stock Repurchase Transactions”); provided, that (x) any payments, expenses or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than fees in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5the Stock Repurchase Transactions shall not exceed $2,500,000.00 in the aggregate, (y) any shares of any class of immediately before and after giving effect to the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the BorrowerRepurchase Transactions, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) Borrowers and each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which Corporate Guarantor are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the covenants set forth in Section 9.1 recomputed for the most recently ended Test Period on or prior quarter for which information is available but giving effect to the Stock Repurchase Transactions and are in compliance with all other terms and conditions of this Agreement, and (z) Merisel shall be eligible to file, and shall file, notices with the Securities and Exchange Commission of its withdrawal from reporting company status within nine (9) months from the date of the making adoption of a plan by the Board of Directors of Merisel through board resolutions to become a non-reporting company; provided further that no later than ten (10) calendar days after Merisel becomes a non-reporting company under the Exchange Act the Loan Parties shall provide the Lender with evidence of the transition to non-reporting status along with evidence of consummation of the Stock Repurchase Transactions including any such Dividendsfilings, calculated on a Pro Forma Basisnotices, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day opinions of such Test Periodcounsel and any other documents, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (agreement or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares instruments contemplated by and executed in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;therewith.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (Merisel Inc /De/)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not pay any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: : (a) ) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds received by the Borrower from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; ; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present current or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of managementconsultants, independent contractors or consultants directors and employees (or their respective Immediate Family Members spouses, former spouses, successors, executors, administrators, heirs, legatees or permitted transfereesdistributees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, that the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 5,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any other present or former employees, directors, officers, managersconsultants, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) employees and directors in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i)) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward without duplication to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b)) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly wholly- owned (disregarding general partner, managing member and other similar interests) Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); ; (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; ; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; repurchases if the net cash consideration received by such Parent Entity in respect of such exercise price is promptly contributed to the Borrower; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary may make and pay Dividends: : (i) the proceeds of which will be used (a) within any taxable year, equal to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to payI) the tax liability estimated taxable income of the Borrower allocable to each relevant jurisdiction in respect such period (determined without regard to any basis adjustments under Section 734 of consolidatedthe Code or under Section 743 of the Code), combined, unitary less cumulative net taxable losses from prior taxable years (but excluding any such losses that were allocated to Persons that have ceased to be direct or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction indirect owners of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only ) to the extent that such losses are of taxes a character (ordinary or capital) that would permit such losses to be deducted by the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries direct or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership indirect owners of the Borrower against the current taxable income of the Borrower allocable to such owners and its Subsidiaries; have not previously been taken into account in determining Tax Distributions, multiplied by (II) the highest combined marginal federal, state and local income tax rate (including taxes imposed under Sections 1401 and 1411 of the Code) applicable to any direct or indirect owner of the Borrower during such period (the “Assumed Tax Rate”), and (b) after the end of any taxable year, equal to (I) the taxable income of the Borrower for such taxable year (determined without regard to any basis adjustments under Section 734 of the Code or under Section 743 of the Code), less cumulative net taxable losses from prior taxable years (but excluding any such losses that were allocated to Persons that have ceased to be direct or indirect owners of the Borrower) to the extent that such losses are of a character (ordinary or capital) that would permit such losses to be deducted by the direct or indirect owners of the Borrower against the current taxable income of the Borrower allocable to such owners and have not previously been taken into account in determining Tax Distributions, multiplied by the Assumed Tax Rate, minus (II) any Dividends previously made under clause (a) with respect to such taxable year; provided that the amount of all Dividends under clause (a) for a taxable year in excess of the annual tax liability determined under clause (b)(I) for such taxable year shall reduce dollar-for-dollar subsequent Dividends under clause (a) (in the case of clauses (a) and (b), which shall be payable regardless of whether a Default, Event of Default or non-compliance with Section 10.9 shall exist) (such distributions in clauses (a) and (b), “Tax Distributions”); (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;

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Sources: Credit Agreement (GCM Grosvenor Inc.)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, (a) if a corporation, declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the BorrowerBorrower or its Subsidiaries) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (except only such dividends, payments or other amounts payable to the Borrower or a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower), and (b) if a partnership, make any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued distribution with respect to the ownership interests therein, or, in either case, any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary (except distributions to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”such declarations, payments, setting apart, purchases, redemptions, defeasance, retirements, acquisitions and distributions being herein called "RESTRICTED PAYMENTS"); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividendsfor: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction Restricted Payments in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that an aggregate amount not exceeding $250,000,000 made by the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and and/or its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of on the Borrower and its SubsidiariesInitial Closing Date and/or the Second Closing Date in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of Restricted Payments paid by the Borrower to pay) PTI Holdings for the repurchase of its operating expenses incurred Junior Subordinated Note in the ordinary course of business accordance with Sections 3.15 and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower6.8; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of such other Restricted Payments as the Borrower or its Subsidiaries may elect to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividendsmake, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause (x) the aggregate amount Total Debt Ratio as of all such Dividends made the date of the most recent quarterly or annual financial statements delivered pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, 5.1 after giving effect to the making of such DividendRestricted Payment is less than 3.50:1, the sum of (iy) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefromfrom the making of such Restricted Payment, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus and (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (iz) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be is in compliance with the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio (calculated on a Consolidated Total Debt basis so as to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio include such Restricted Payments as a fixed charge) as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (niv) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, Restricted Payments paid by the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders (A) redeem or repurchase the equity holders of such parent Modesto Station Purchase Preferred Stock in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists the Redemption Value thereof plus accrued and unpaid dividends and (B) pay regularly scheduled and accrued and unpaid dividends on the Modesto Station Purchase Preferred Stock; provided that at the time that such Restricted Payment is made no Preferred Stock Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result from the making of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed such Restricted Payment. Notwithstanding anything herein to the common Capital Stock of contrary, neither the Borrower from nor its Subsidiaries shall make or permit Restricted Payments (i) in excess of $100,000,000 prior to the net cash proceeds Second Closing Date or (ii) in excess of $250,000,000 (LESS Restricted Payments made pursuant to clause (i)) on the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;Second Closing Date.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Credit Agreement (Univision Communications Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not pay any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Personmake Restricted Payments to Details or any Wholly Owned Subsidiary Guarantor; (b) any payments made to the former shareholders of Holdings pursuant to Section 1.11 of the Recapitalization Agreement; (c) any payments on the DCI Preferred Stock on the terms in existence on the date hereof and any payments of Deferred Payment Amounts; (d) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurredshall have occurred and be continuing, is continuing Details may pay dividends to the Company to permit the Company to pay dividends directly, or would result therefromindirectly through the Company or New Intermediate Holdco, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire to Holdings to permit Holdings to (i) purchase Holdings' common stock or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds common stock options from present or former officers or employees of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire Holdings or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, Subsidiaries upon the death, disability, retirement disability or termination of employment of any such Person officer or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights planemployee, any managementprovided, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, that the aggregate -------- amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of payments under this clause (i) shall not exceed $4,000,000 during any fiscal year of Details and $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained during the term of this Agreement, net, in any case, of any proceeds received by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock and contributed to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) Details in connection with resales of any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received common stock or common stock options so purchased during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 relevant period and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends pay management fees to the Borrower ▇▇▇▇ Capital and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions Bain Affiliates expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section;7.10(iii); and (e) the Borrower Details may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants pay dividends to the extent such Capital Stock represents all Company to permit the Company, New Intermediate Holdco or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends Holdings to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating corporate overhead expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 500,000 in any fiscal year plus year, (ii) pay any actualtaxes which are due and payable by Holdings as part of a consolidated group of which the Company, reasonable New Intermediate Holdco and customary indemnification claims made Details are members (provided that the amount of such dividends shall -------- not exceed the lesser of (x) the actual cash tax liability of Holdings which is then due and payable to Governmental Authorities and (y) the cash tax liability which would be owing by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; Company and its Subsidiaries to Governmental Authorities on a stand-alone basis), (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof relating to the extent such salariesCompany Zeros and the New Intermediate Holdco Notes, bonuses (iv) beginning no earlier than July 2002, pay interest in cash on the Company Zeros, (v) no earlier than December 2003 and other benefits are attributable so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, make all or any portion of the AHYDO Payment; provided, that -------- (w) prior to Details making the dividend to permit all or any portion of the AHYDO Payment to be made, Details shall provide a certificate to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing DividendsAdministrative Agent, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided certifying that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceedon a pro forma basis, after giving effect to such Dividenddividend it is in compliance with all of the covenants contained in Section 7.1, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (ix) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant shall not be permitted to this clause borrow under the Revolving Credit Facility to finance such dividend and (iy) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day amount of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) dividend shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; lesser of (lI) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) then unused Permitted Expenditure Amount plus $7,500,000 and (pII) $35,000,000, and (subject to the conditions set out therein); (mvi) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereofthe AHYDO Payment, if at pay interest in cash on the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;New Intermediate Holdco Notes.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Credit Agreement (Details Capital Corp)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will shall not, and shall not ----------------------- permit any of its Subsidiaries to, (a) if a corporation, declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the BorrowerBorrower or its Subsidiaries) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding outstanding, and (b) if a partnership or a limited liability company, make any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued distribution with respect to the ownership interests therein, or, in either case, any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Subsidiary (such declarations, payments, setting apart, purchases, redemptions, defeasance, retirements, acquisitions and distributions being herein called "Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”Payments"); ------------------- provided that: (a) that (i) the Borrower each Subsidiary may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material make Restricted Payments to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous -------- ---- Borrower or to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby another wholly-owned Subsidiary and (ii) the Borrower and any may make Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in Payments if (A) the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long Maximum Total Debt Ratio as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to nonmost-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding recently ended fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership quarter of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; is less than 4.50:1.00, (iiB) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefromfrom the making of such Restricted Payment, an amount equal including under Section 6.1(c) (including, for the purposes of calculating the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, such Restricted Payment as a fixed charge pursuant to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus clause (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date definition of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment"Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio") and (iiC) honor any conversion request such Restricted Payment, together with the aggregate amount of all other Restricted Payments made by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereofSecond Amendment Effective Date, if at is less than the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;Restricted Payment Threshold.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Credit Agreement (Entravision Communications Corp)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the BorrowerCompany) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, other acquisition of (other than for considerationpayment solely in common stock of the Company), any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the BorrowerCompany or any warrants or options to purchase any such Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Company or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to Restricted Subsidiary, provided that at any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) time that (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) therefrom and (ii) honor the Total Leverage Ratio as at the end of each of the then most recently ended two consecutive fiscal quarters of the Company for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to subsection 7.1 is less than 5.00:1.00, the Company may repurchase common stock of the Company held by shareholders other than that held by any conversion request by a holder employee, officer or director of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with the Company or any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; Restricted Subsidiary so long as (kA) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends aggregate amount applied to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any such repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall does not exceed $5,000,000 25,000,000 in the aggregate; any calendar year, (lB) the Borrower may make payments Total Leverage Ratio immediately upon giving effect to any such repurchase is less than 5.00:1.00 on a pro forma basis, using for the purposes of such determination Consolidated Operating Cash Flow for the four-quarter period ended on the last day of the second fiscal quarter referred to in clause (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such paymentsii) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) above and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after Indebtedness on the date of declaration thereofsuch determination after giving effect to such repurchase and any borrowings made concurrently therewith, if at and (C) the Company shall have provided to each Lender reasonably prior to the date of declaration of each such payment, repurchase pro forma projections showing compliance with this Agreement after giving effect to such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;repurchase.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (Outdoor Systems Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not pay any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present current or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of managementconsultants, independent contractors or consultants directors and employees (or their respective Immediate Family Members spouses, former spouses, successors, executors, administrators, heirs, legatees or permitted transfereesdistributees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary non‑discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any other present or former employees, directors, officers, managersconsultants, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) employees and directors in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man key‑man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the TransactionsTransactions (including the Special Dividend, all or a portion of which may be paid after the Closing Date but in no event later than June 15, 2012); (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) on or after the Fourth Amendment No. 13 Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an the greater of (x) $400,000,000 and (y) 6.75% of Consolidated Total Assets (measured as of the datean amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paidpaid based upon the Section 9.1 Financials most recently delivered on or prior to such date), plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Incremental Dividend Amount plus (v) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.002.0:1.0; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Membersimmediate family members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Third Amendment, Extension and Incremental Assumption Agreement (LPL Financial Holdings Inc.)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not pay Declare any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, on any shares of any class of its Capital Stock stock, or the Capital Stock of make any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)payment on account of, or set aside any funds apart assets for any a sinking or other analogous fund for, the purchase, redemption, retirement or other acquisition of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerstock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Company or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”)its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided except that: (a) the Company may distribute all the issued and outstanding common stock of KLX to the Company’s shareholders; (b) Restricted Subsidiaries may pay dividends directly or indirectly to the Company or to Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiaries and Foreign Subsidiaries may pay dividends directly or indirectly to Foreign Subsidiaries which are directly or indirectly wholly-owned by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary; (c) the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries may pay or make dividends or distributions to any holder of its capital stock in the form of additional shares of capital stock of the same class and type; (d) the Company may effect one or more Qualified Stock Repurchases if (i) the Borrower may (no Default or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole Event of Default has occurred or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenderswould occur after giving effect thereto, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower Company shall be in compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Section 9.1 in each case calculated on a pro-forma basis as of the last day of the fiscal quarter ending immediately preceding the date of such Qualified Stock Repurchase for which the relevant financial information has been delivered to the Lenders pursuant to Section 8.1 or 8.2, as applicable, giving effect to such cash dividend or distribution as if it had been made on the first day of the Measurement Period ending on the last day of such fiscal quarter and (iii) if at the time of any purchase the Total Leverage Ratio of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in Subsidiaries equals or exceeds 2.50 to 1.00 (calculated on a pro forma basis as of the Capital last day of the fiscal quarter ending immediately preceding the date of any such Qualified Stock Repurchase for which the relevant financial information has been delivered to the Lenders pursuant to Section 8.1 or 8.2, as applicable, giving effect to such Qualified Stock Repurchase as if it had been made on the first day of the Measurement Period ending on the last day of such fiscal quarter), the maximum aggregate consideration for (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1x) all such purchases made pursuant to this clause (d) and (y) all cash dividends and cash distributions under clause (e) of such Person;this Section 9.9, from and after the Effective Date, shall not exceed the sum of $400,000,000 plus the remaining Available Amount; and (be) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing occurred or would result therefromoccur after giving effect to such declaration or payment, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower Company may declare and pay Dividends cash dividends or cash distributions to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares holders of its Capital Stock Equity Interests, provided that, after giving effect thereto (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued i) the Company is in compliance with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower Total Leverage Ratio and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with Interest Coverage Ratio at the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any respective levels applicable thereto at such Person or otherwise time in accordance with any stock option Section 9.1 and the Total Leverage Ratio of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries is less than 2.50 to 1.00 (in each case, calculated on a pro forma basis as of the last day of the fiscal quarter ending immediately preceding the effective date of such cash dividend or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect distribution for which the relevant financial information has been delivered to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions the Lenders pursuant to Section 8.1 or 8.2, as applicable, giving effect to such cash dividend or distribution as if it had been made on the terms first day of any stock option or stock appreciation rights planthe Measurement Period ending on the last day of such fiscal quarter), any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, and (ii) the maximum aggregate amount consideration for (x) all Qualified Stock Repurchases made pursuant to clause (d) of all cash paid in respect of this Section 9.9 and (y) all such shares of Capital Stock cash dividends and cash distributions under this clause (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemede), acquiredfrom and after the Effective Date, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does shall not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 400,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the remaining Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;.

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Sources: Loan Agreement (B/E Aerospace Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not pay any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds 183 obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries;; 184 (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00;; 185 (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Seventh Amendment (LPL Financial Holdings Inc.)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not pay Declare any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, on any shares of any class of its Capital Stock stock, or the Capital Stock of make any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)payment on account of, or set aside any funds apart assets for any a sinking or other analogous fund for, the purchase, redemption, retirement or other acquisition of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerstock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Company or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) its Subsidiaries (all of the foregoing “Dividends”being referred to herein as "Restricted Payments"); provided except that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or Subsidiaries may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole dividends directly or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material indirectly to the interests of Company or to Domestic Subsidiaries which are directly or indirectly wholly-owned by the LendersCompany, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary Foreign Subsidiaries may pay Dividends payable solely in dividends directly or indirectly to Foreign Subsidiaries which are directly or indirectly wholly-owned by the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such PersonCompany; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing occurred or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before occur after giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividendssuch declaration or payment, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends Company may, from time to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (andtime, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity stock from management employees of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself Company and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of 10,000,000.00 (the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)"Dividend Limit"); (vc) the proceeds Company and its Subsidiaries may pay or make dividends or distributions to any holder of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity its Capital Stock in the form of additional shares of capital stock of the Borrower to pay) fees same class and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement;type; and (vid) the proceeds so long as no Default or Event of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership Default has occurred or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, would occur after giving effect to such Dividenddeclaration or payment, the sum Company may declare and pay cash dividends or distributions to any holders of its Equity Interests (i1) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefromin an aggregate amount not to exceed $25,000,000.00 during any fiscal year, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) ifprovided that, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, effect thereto the Borrower would Company (x) shall be in compliance with the covenants set forth in Section 9.1 and (y) shall have a Consolidated Total Debt Secured Leverage Ratio of less than 2.5 to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio 1, in each case calculated on a pro forma basis as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to last day of the fiscal quarter ending immediately preceding the effective date of such cash dividend or distribution for which the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basisrelevant financial information has been delivered to the lenders pursuant to Section 8.1 or 8.2, as applicable, giving effect to such cash dividend or distribution as if such Dividends it had occurred been made on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments Measurement Period ending on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration last day of such payments including deemed repurchases fiscal quarter or (2) during any fiscal year in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to which the conditions set out therein); forth in clause (m1) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereofwere not satisfied, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount which, when added to any amounts paid under clause (iv) of Section 9.12 during such year, shall not exceeding to exceed $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;10,000,000.00.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Credit Agreement (Be Aerospace Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower New Member covenants to the Beneficiaries that it will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries that is not wholly-owned by New Member to, pay or declare any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock dividend on any class of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders stock or make any other distribution, payment or delivery distribution on account of property or cash to any class of its equity holders as suchstock, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing being herein called DividendsRestricted Payments); provided that: ) other than (x) Restricted Payments payable solely in Capital Stock either made by any Guarantor to another Guarantor or made by New Member to any Person or (y) Restricted Payments to CSX, unless (a) (i) New Member shall have provided to the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any Beneficiary Representative 15 days’ prior notice of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights intent to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests make a Restricted Payment, which notice shall contain a reasonably detailed description of the LendersRestricted Payment, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event the Interest Coverage Ratio of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends Guarantors shall not be less than 1.90 to 1.00 on a pro forma basis after giving effect to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) Indebtedness incurred in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding proposed Restricted Payment as if incurred at the foregoing, 100% commencement of the unused amount period of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding four consecutive fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (quarters then most recently ended and, in if such Restricted Payment is a dividend or distribution of any part of the case of a Dividend by a business or non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock cash assets of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceedGuarantor, after giving pro forma effect to such Dividenddividend or distribution as if effected at the commencement of the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters then most recently ended, the sum of (ic) so long as no Tier 1 Default or Tier 2 Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and no Guarantor shall have Knowledge that any event or circumstance that constitutes a Tier 2 Default has occurred and is continuing continuing; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not prevent or would result therefromrestrict the redemption, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event repurchase or other acquisition or retirement for cash of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends any Capital Stock held by any member of New Member’s management pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on any management equity subscription agreement or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;option agreement.

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Sources: Guarantee and Indemnity Agreement (Horizon Lines, Inc.)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders dividend on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity Borrower or any warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)outstanding, or set aside make any funds for any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the foregoing purposes, or permit the such Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the BorrowerSubsidiary, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided thatexcept for: (a) (i) the Borrower may (dividends, payments or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable distributions solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) common stock of such Persona Borrower; (b) dividends to CNG in an amount sufficient to allow CNG to pay interest on the Senior Subordinated Notes, the Senior Subordinated 1997 Notes and the Senior Subordinated 2002 Notes in accordance with the terms of each thereof, PROVIDED that CNG actually uses such dividends to make such payments of interest; (c) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before occur after giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward such dividend, dividends to CNG in an aggregate amount (declared or paid subsequent to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but Closing Date) not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant exceed $50,000,000 solely to this allow CNG to repurchase Senior Subordinated Notes, Senior Subordinated 1997 Notes and/or Senior Subordinated 2002 Notes without violating Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests9(m); (d) so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would occur after giving effect to such dividend, dividends to CNG in an aggregate amount (declared or paid subsequent to the extent constituting DividendsClosing Date) not to exceed $4,000,000 solely to allow CNG or CNC to repurchase, the Borrower and redeem, or otherwise acquire or retire for value, any Restricted Capital Stock of CNG or CNC or any current or former Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted of CNG held by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such sectionCNG's (or any of its Subsidiaries') current or former employees; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock payments or distributions in respect of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrowertaxes, as applicableprovided in the Tax Sharing Agreement, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may actually used to pay Dividends taxes to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases;taxing authority; and (f) [Reserved]; (g) dividends to CNG in an aggregate amount not to exceed an amount equal to .25% of the Borrower may make aggregate net sales of the Borrowers and pay Dividends: (i) their Subsidiaries for any fiscal year solely for the proceeds purpose of which will be used enabling CNC to pay the ordinary operating and administrative expenses of CNC (or including all reasonable professional fees and expenses) in connection with complying with its reporting obligations and obligations to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself prepare and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred distribute business records in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead CNC's costs and expenses relating to taxes (including administrativewhich taxes are attributable to the operations of CNG and its Subsidiaries or to CNC's ownership thereof) for such fiscal year; and (g) so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would occur after giving effect to such dividend, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in dividends to CNG other than dividends otherwise permitted under any of the ordinary course of business, foregoing clauses (a) through (f) in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 10,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;year.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (Cole National Group Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will Quiksilver shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, (a) if a corporation, declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the BorrowerQuiksilver or its Subsidiaries) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of Quiksilver or its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding outstanding, and (b) if a partnership or a limited liability company, make any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued distribution with respect to the ownership interests therein, or, in either case, any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower Quiksilver or any Subsidiary (such declarations, payments, setting apart, purchases, redemptions, defeasance, retirements, acquisitions and distributions being herein called "Restricted Payments") provided, however, that (i) Quiksilver shall be permitted to make payments on account of, and set apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, the purchase, redemption, defeasance, retirement or other acquisition of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerits common stock, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect options to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of purchase its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenderscommon stock, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained not exceeding US$20,000,000 in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) aggregate, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow be caused by any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeemforegoing, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself Quiksilver and its Subsidiaries shall be permitted to make other Restricted Payments so long as (x) after giving pro forma effect thereto, average daily Availability was not less than (x) if the Guarantee Date has not yet occurred, US$25,000,000, or attributable (y) on and after the Guarantee Date, US$40,000,000, for any period of thirty consecutive days during the 12-month period ending on the date on which such Restricted Payment is to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; be made, (iiy) the proceeds of which shall be used Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio exceeds 1.25 to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, 1.00 after giving pro forma effect to such Dividend, Restricted Payment as if such Restricted Payment was paid on the sum first day of the relevant period and (iz) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred be caused thereby and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal the Subsidiaries shall in any case be permitted to pay cash dividends and other distributions, directly or indirectly, to Quiksilver or any Subsidiary, to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal extent paid ratably to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as all stockholders of the most recently ended Test Period on Person paying the applicable dividend or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;contribution.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (Quiksilver Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock of the Borrower or any warrants or options to purchase any such Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary (such declarations, payments, setting apart, purchases, redemptions, defeasances, retirements, acquisitions and distributions being herein called "Restricted Payments"). Notwithstanding the foregoing, however, the Borrower may repurchase the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect the Borrower pursuant to any currently existing or subsequently adopted stock repurchase program without any limitation, provided, that the ratio of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any Consolidated Senior Indebtedness to Consolidated EBITDA as of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares last day of any class Rolling Period (calculated on a pro forma basis as if such repurchase of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding and the incurrence of any Indebtedness by any Loan Party in connection therewith, had occurred immediately prior to such day) is less than 1.0 to 1.0. From and after the last day of any Rolling Period (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued beginning with respect the Rolling Period ended immediately prior to any the Closing Date) for which the ratio of Consolidated Senior Indebtedness to Consolidated EBITDA as of the Capital Stock last day of any Parent Entity such Rolling Period (calculated on a pro forma basis as if such repurchase of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, and the incurrence of any Indebtedness by any Loan Party in connection therewith, had occurred immediately prior to such day) is 1.0 to 1.0 or greater (all of such day, the foregoing “Dividends”"Limitation Date"); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends shall be subject to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds a limitation of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise $15,000,000 in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of for all such shares repurchases of Capital Stock (the "Limitation") from and after the Limitation Date. The Limitation described previously shall not be applicable during any subsequent Rolling Period in which the ratio described herein for such Rolling Period is less than 1.0 to 1.0. For any subsequent Rolling Period in which the ratio described herein for such Rolling Period is 1.0 to 1.0 or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemedgreater, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) Limitation shall again be $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last 15,000,000 in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower aggregate from and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that after any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test subsequent Rolling Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (Armor Holdings Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the Borrowersuch Person) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of such Person or any Parent Entity warrants or options to purchase any such Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of HCC or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any Subsidiary of its Capital Stock)HCC, or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided except that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as if no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing exists or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase reasonably be expected to be caused thereby (and the Borrower i) Subsidiaries of HCC may declare and pay Dividends dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any HCC and other shareholders of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower HCC may repurchase Capital Stock or redeem shares of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of HCC common stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and from its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause former employees so long as the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to repurchases since the date of this Section 10.6(hAgreement does not exceed $2,500,000, (iii) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum HCC may make open market repurchases of (i) shares of HCC common stock so long as no Event the aggregate amount of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefromall such repurchases during the term of this Agreement does not exceed $25,000,000, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal HCC may declare or pay dividends on and make mandatory stock repurchases (pursuant to the Specified Dividend Amount; terms of the applicable certificate of designation) of its preferred stock, if any, and (iv) HCC may declare or pay dividends on shares of HCC common stock, provided that the Borrower may make additional Dividends aggregate amount of such declarations or payments pursuant to this clause (iv) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as above does not exceed 25% of the Consolidated Net Income of HCC for the period (taken as one accounting period) from the beginning of the first fiscal quarter commencing after the Closing Date to the end of HCC's most recently ended Test Period on fiscal quarter for which financial statements have been delivered to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders pursuant to subsection 7.1 at or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day time of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (declaration or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Credit Agreement (Hanover Compressor Co)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not pay Declare any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, on any shares of any class of its Capital Stock stock, or the Capital Stock of make any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)payment on account of, or set aside any funds apart assets for any a sinking or other analogous fund for, the purchase, redemption, retirement or other acquisition of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerstock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Company or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) its Subsidiaries (all of the foregoing being referred to herein as DividendsRestricted Payments”); provided except that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or Subsidiaries may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole dividends directly or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material indirectly to the interests of Company or to Domestic Subsidiaries which are directly or indirectly wholly-owned by the LendersCompany, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary Foreign Subsidiaries may pay Dividends payable solely in dividends directly or indirectly to Foreign Subsidiaries which are directly or indirectly wholly-owned by the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such PersonCompany; (b) any Permitted Minority-Interest Subsidiary may declare and pay dividends and make other Restricted Payments with respect to the capital stock of such Subsidiary now or hereafter outstanding; provided, in the case of a dividend, each stockholder of such Subsidiary receives its ratable share thereof; (c) the Company may pay the Special Distribution in an aggregate amount not to exceed $280,000,000 plus, if the Company’s estimate changes, an additional amount reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; (d) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing then exists or would result therefrom, the Borrower Company may redeempay dividends and, acquireto the extent permitted under the Tax Sharing Agreement, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or class of capital stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the an aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect not to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 the Available Excess Cash Flow (to the extent not previously utilized under this subsection 13.9(d)) plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained the amount of net cash proceeds received by Holdings the Company or the Borrower during such calendar year its Subsidiaries from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation common and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% preferred stock of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) Company after the Closing Date (before giving effect other than such proceeds applied to any carry forward) may be carried forward prepay the Term Loans or (to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last extent there is an equivalent permanent reduction in the subsequent fiscal year); (iRevolving Credit Commitments) Revolving Credit Loans) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interestsnot previously utilized under this subsection 13.9(d); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes ; provided that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend limitation shall not cause apply if the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Net Leverage Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or completed period of four consecutive fiscal quarters ending prior to such Restricted Payment for which the financial statements and certificates required by subsections 12.1 and 12.2 (including any certificate described in clause (ii) of the second sentence of subsection 12.1) have been delivered or for which comparable financial statements have been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, determined after giving pro forma effect to such Restricted Payment and to any other event occurring after such period and within three (3) Business Days of the date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, determination as to which pro forma calculation is appropriate as if such Dividends Restricted Payment had occurred on as of the first day of such Test Periodperiod, that is no greater less than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends 6.0 to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein1.0); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (ne) so long as no Default or Event of Default is continuing then exists or would result therefrom, the Borrower Company may from time to time repurchase stock of the Company from current or former management employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries; and (f) the Company may make Dividends payments and/or net shares under employee benefit plans to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may settle option price payments owed by employees and directors with respect thereto, make Dividends payments in respect of or purchase restricted stock units and similar stock based awards thereunder and to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;settle employees’ and directors’ federal, state and income tax liabilities (if any) related thereto.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (Citadel Broadcasting Corp)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not pay None of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall declare any dividends (on the common stock of the Company other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, Company on any shares of any class of its Capital Stock stock, or the Capital Stock of make any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)payment on account of, or set aside any funds apart assets for any a sinking or other analogous fund for, the purchase, redemption, retirement or other acquisition of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity stock of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the BorrowerCompany, whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof or make any loan or advance to Holdings, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Company or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”)its Subsidiaries; provided that: except that (a) (i) the Borrower may (or Subsidiaries may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material dividends to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (Company or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Domestic Subsidiaries (andor, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Foreign Subsidiary, to another Foreign Subsidiary which are directly or indirectly wholly owned by the Borrower Company and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (db) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower Company may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof dividends or make loans and advances as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividendsfollows: (i) prior to the proceeds time when Holdings has received senior unsecured rating from both S&P and ▇▇▇▇▇'▇ of which will be used to pay BBB- and Baa3, respectively, in an aggregate amount during any fiscal year not in excess of the sum of (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to payA) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect lesser of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for 25% of consolidated net income of the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself Company and its Subsidiaries for such fiscal year or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership $10,000,000 and (B) for fiscal years beginning on or after February 1, 1998, the amount by which (I) the lesser of 25% of consolidated net income of the Borrower Company and its SubsidiariesSubsidiaries for the prior fiscal year or $10,000,000 exceeds (II) the amount of dividends, loans or advances made in such prior fiscal year pursuant solely to this Section 7.10(i); (ii) after and during the proceeds time when Holdings has received senior unsecured ratings from both S&P and ▇▇▇▇▇'▇ of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business BBB- and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrativeBaa3, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of businessrespectively, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in during any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers not in excess of any Parent Entity 25% of consolidated net income of the BorrowerCompany and its Subsidiaries for such fiscal year; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used in amounts equal to amounts required for Holdings to pay (or Federal, state and local income taxes to make Dividends the extent that such income taxes are attributable to allow any Parent Entity the income of the Borrower Company and its Subsidiaries and to pay) pay franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses fees required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ its corporate existence; (iv) in amounts equal to amounts expended by Holdings to repurchase capital stock of Holdings owned by former employees of the proceeds Company and its Subsidiaries and their assigns, estates and heirs, provided that the amount paid, loaned or advanced to Holdings pursuant to this paragraph (iii) shall not exceed in the aggregate $10,000,000, plus any amounts contributed by Holdings to the Company as a result of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b));resales of such repurchased capital stock; and (v) the proceeds of which Company shall be used to pay (or permitted to make Dividends payments, dividends or distributions with respect to allow any Parent Entity operating costs incurred by Holdings in amounts not to exceed $4,000,000 in the aggregate during each fiscal year of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to Company; Notwithstanding any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing subsection 7.10 or would result therefromsubsection 7.13(i), the Borrower may make Dividends Company shall be permitted to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends prepay the Intercompany Notes or pay a dividend to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent Holdings from time to time in an aggregate amount not exceeding since the Effective Date of up to $2,200,000 which 36,000,000; provided that in no event shall the aggregate amount consists in any fiscal year of 6.0% per annum such prepayments of the cash contributed Intercompany Note and such payments of dividends, together with the dividends and loans and advances made pursuant to the common Capital Stock clause (b)(i) of this subsection 7.10, exceed during any fiscal year 50% of the Borrower from the consolidated net cash proceeds income of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;Company and its Subsidiaries for such fiscal year.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (Saks Holdings Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not pay Declare any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, on any shares of any class of its Capital Stock stock, or the Capital Stock of make any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)payment on account of, or set aside any funds apart assets for any a sinking or other analogous fund for, the purchase, redemption, retirement or other acquisition of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerstock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Company or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) its Subsidiaries (all of the foregoing “Dividends”being referred to herein as "RESTRICTED PAYMENTS"); provided except that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or Subsidiaries may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole dividends directly or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material indirectly to the interests of Company or to Domestic Subsidiaries which are directly or indirectly wholly-owned by the LendersCompany, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary Foreign Subsidiaries may pay Dividends payable solely in dividends directly or indirectly to Foreign Subsidiaries which are directly or indirectly wholly-owned by the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such PersonCompany; (b) the Company may pay dividends to Intermediate Holding, and Intermediate Holding may pay such dividends to HoldCo, in an amount equal to the amount required for HoldCo and Intermediate Holding to pay franchise taxes, fees and expenses necessary to maintain their status as a corporation, and other fees required to maintain their corporate 84 existence, provided that HoldCo and Intermediate Holding shall promptly pay such taxes, fees and expenses; (c) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing occurred or would result therefromoccur after giving effect to such declaration or payment, the Borrower may redeemCompany may, acquirefrom time to time, retire or repurchase (declare and the Borrower pay cash dividends to Intermediate Holding, and Intermediate Holding may declare and pay Dividends such dividends to any Parent Entity thereofHoldCo, on the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or common stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, Company in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in 10,000,000 (the "HOLDCO DIVIDEND LIMIT"); PROVIDED that the proceeds of such dividends shall be used within 30 days of the receipt of such dividends by HoldCo to repurchase HoldCo stock from management employees of HoldCo or any fiscal year plus any actualof its Subsidiaries and, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made PROVIDED FURTHER, the HoldCo Dividend Limit shall be increased by directors or officers the proceeds of any Parent Entity additional HoldCo capital stock which is issued to any management employees of HoldCo or any of its Subsidiaries so long as such proceeds are contributed by HoldCo to the capital of Intermediate Holding and by Intermediate Holding to the capital of the BorrowerCompany; (iiid) any Permitted Minority-Interest Subsidiary may declare and pay dividends and make other Restricted Payments with respect to the proceeds capital stock of which shall be used to pay (such Subsidiary now or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity hereafter outstanding; PROVIDED, in the case of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other feesa dividend, taxes and expenses required to maintain any each stockholder of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existencesuch Subsidiary receives its ratable share thereof; (ive) subject to applicable subordination provisions the proceeds of which shall be used to Company may declare and pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred regularly scheduled semi-annual dividends on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Subordinated Preferred Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6when due; and (nf) so long as no Event of Default is continuing the Company may exchange at par all or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum a portion of the cash contributed to Subordinated Preferred Stock for a Subordinated Note; and (g) the common Capital Stock Company may pay dividends, solely by the issuance of additional shares of Existing Preferred Stock, on the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;Existing Preferred Stock.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (Citadel Broadcasting Corp)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend or distribution on (other than dividends dividends, including splits, payable solely in the non-mandatorily redeemable Capital Stock or mandatorily redeemable Capital Stock that does not require redemption prior to the first anniversary of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders Revolving Credit Termination Date), or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or otherwise acquire for consideration (hereafter outstanding, or make any other than distribution in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerany Restricted Subsidiary (such declarations, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”payments, setting apart, purchases, redemptions, defeasances, retirements, acquisitions and distributions being herein called "Restricted Payments"); provided , except that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at Borrower may make Restricted Payments (i) as permitted under the time such Dividend is paidPartnership Agreement on its Capital Stock, plus including its Series F Units and the General Partnership Interest, or (ii) so long as no Event out of Default has occurred and is continuing the net cash proceeds of an issuance of Common Units or would result therefromout of the net cash proceeds of an issuance of Senior Notes or Senior Subordinated Notes, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time in each case occurring within 120 days of such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount;Restricted Payment; SEVENTH AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT (ib) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, exchange or convert Series C Units for or into Common Units in accordance with the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as terms of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00Series C Units; (jc) the Borrower may (issue Common Units in exchange for Senior Notes, Senior Subordinated Notes or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases other debt securities in connection with the exercise conversion of stock options; provided any Series F Units in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied accordance with the other provisions terms of this Section 10.6the Series F Units; and (nd) so long as no Event acquisitions by officers, directors and other representatives of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders General Partner of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds through cashless exercise of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;options pursuant to a common unit option plan will not constitute a Restricted Payment.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (Gulfterra Energy Partners L P)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to (i) if a corporation, declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the BorrowerBorrower or its Subsidiaries) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding outstanding, and (ii) if a partnership or a limited liability company, make any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued distribution with respect to the ownership interests therein, or, in either case, any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Subsidiary (such declarations, payments, setting apart, purchases, redemptions, defeasance, retirements, acquisitions and distributions being herein called "Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration Payments"), except that (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5i) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to the Borrower or the Capital Stock to any other Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurredcommencing February 1, is continuing or would result therefrom2004, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and make Restricted Payments to CCI for the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends purpose of permitting CCI to any Parent Entity thereof, make regularly scheduled payments of interest on the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions CCI Notes as required pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid CCI Indenture as in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed effect on the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation Closing Date and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used Restricted Payments to CCI to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of administrative expenses and taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 1,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, year; provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(hin each case (A) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal from the making of such Restricted Payment and (B) with respect to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus clause (ii) so long as above, no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to such Restricted Payment shall be permitted during any period in which the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Maximum Total Debt Ratio equals or exceeds 5.50 to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;1.00.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (Friendship Cable of Arkansas Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, (a) if a corporation, declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the BorrowerBorrower or its Subsidiaries) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (except only such dividends, payments or other amounts payable to the Borrower or a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower), and (b) if a partnership, make any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued distribution with respect to the ownership interests therein, or, in either case, any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary (except distributions to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”such declarations, payments, setting apart, purchases, redemptions, defeasance, retirements, acquisitions and distributions being herein called "Restricted Payments"); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividendsfor: (i) Restricted Payments paid by the proceeds of which will be used Borrower to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns PTI Holdings for the relevant jurisdiction repurchase of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries;Junior Subordinated Note in accordance with Section 6.8; and (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of such other Restricted Payments as the Borrower or its Subsidiaries may elect to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividendsmake, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause (x) the aggregate amount Total Debt Ratio as of all such Dividends made the date of the most recent quarterly or annual financial statements delivered pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, 5.1 after giving effect to the making of such DividendRestricted Payment is less than 3.50:1, the sum of (iy) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefromfrom the making of such Restricted Payment, an amount equal and (z) the Borrower is in compliance with the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio (calculated on a basis so as to include such Restricted Payments as a fixed charge, except for such Restricted Payments relating to Borrower Stock Purchases) as of the date thereof; provided, further, that notwithstanding anything to the Remaining Dividends Amount at contrary in this Agreement, for purposes of determining compliance with Sections 6.1(a), (b) and (c), Section 6.6(ii) and Section 6.7(k) only, Newco shall be deemed not to be a Subsidiary of the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) Borrower so long as no Event all of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal the Indebtedness of Newco created under each AT Note constitutes Non-Recourse Indebtedness. Notwithstanding anything herein to the Available Amount at contrary, the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; Borrower shall not permit (i) the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments for Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant Stock Purchases to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on exceed $150,000,000 or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration aggregate percentages of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not purchased shares to exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.010% per annum of the cash contributed to the issued common Capital Stock stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;Borrower.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Credit Agreement (Univision Communications Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the Borrowersuch Person) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of such Person or any Parent Entity warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of HCC or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any Subsidiary of its Capital Stock)HCC, or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided except that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as if no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing exists or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase reasonably be expected to be caused thereby (and the Borrower i) Subsidiaries of HCC may declare and pay Dividends dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any HCC and other shareholders of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower HCC may repurchase Capital Stock or redeem shares of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of HCC common stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and from its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause former employees so long as the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(hrepurchases since the Initial Closing Date does not exceed $7,500,000, (iii) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum HCC may make open market repurchases of (i) shares of HCC common stock so long as no Event the aggregate amount of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefromall such repurchases during the Term does not exceed $25,000,000, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal HCC may declare or pay dividends on and make mandatory stock repurchases (pursuant to the Specified Dividend Amount; terms of the applicable certificate of designation) of its preferred stock, if any, and (iv) HCC may declare or pay dividends on shares of HCC common stock, provided that the Borrower may make additional Dividends aggregate amount of such declarations or payments pursuant to this clause (iv) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as above does not exceed 25% of the Consolidated Net Income of HCC for the period (taken as one accounting period) from the beginning of the fiscal quarter commencing October 1, 1998 to the end of HCC's most recently ended Test Period on fiscal quarter for which financial statements have been delivered to the Agent and the Lenders pursuant to subsection 10.1 at or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day time of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (declaration or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Guarantee (Hanover Compressor Co)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will If Debt Securities are issued to a WPSR Trust or a trustee of such trust in connection with the issuance of Trust Securities by such WPSR Trust and (a) there shall have occurred any event that would constitute an Event of Default, or (b) the Company shall be in default with respect to its payment of any obligations under the Trust Preferred Securities Guaranty or Trust Common Securities Guaranty relating to such Trust Securities, or (c) the Company shall have given notice of its election to defer payments of interest on Debt Securities by extending the interest payment period as provided in the Board Resolution and Officers' Certificate or indenture supplemental hereto establishing such series of Debt Securities, and such period, or any extension thereof, shall be continuing, then (x) the Company shall not declare or pay any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or dividend on, make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchdistribution with respect to, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued make a liquidation payment with respect to to, any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration capital stock (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (repurchases or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests acquisitions of the Lenders, when taken Company's common shares as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held contemplated by any present employment arrangement, benefit plan or former other similar contract with or for the benefit of employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors officers or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter directors entered into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers (ii) repurchases of any Parent Entity common shares of the Borrower; Company as contemplated by the Company Stock Investment Plan or Company Deferred Compensation Plan as in effect immediately prior to the occurrence of such Event of Default or the date upon which the Company gives notice of its election to extend the interest payment period, as applicable, (iii) the proceeds as a result of which shall be used to pay (an exchange or to make Dividends to allow conversion of any Parent Entity class or series of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other feesCompany's capital stock for the Company's common shares, taxes and expenses required to maintain any provided that such class or series of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; Company's capital stock was outstanding prior to the occurrence of such Event of Default or the date upon which the Company gives notice of its election to extend the interest payment period, as applicable, (iv) the proceeds purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company's cpital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such Company capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, provided that such Company capital stock or security was outstanding prior to the occurrence of such Event of Default or the date upon which shall be used the Company gives notice of its election to pay (extend the interest payment period, as applicable, or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds payment of any stock dividend where the dividend is paid in the form of the same stock as that on which the dividend is paid), (y) the Company shall be used to pay (not directly or to make Dividends to indirectly, and shall not allow any Parent Entity of its Subsidiaries to, make any payment of interest, principal or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities issued by the Borrower Company that rank pari passu with or junior to paythe Debt Securities, and (z) fees and expenses the Company shall not make guaranty payments with respect to the foregoing (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof pursuant to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(cTrust Preferred Securities Guaranty), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;.

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Sources: Indenture (WPSR Capital Trust I)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not pay any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, 179 LPL – Conformed A&R Credit Agreement managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: : 180 LPL – Conformed A&R Credit Agreement (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;

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Sources: Fifth Amendment (LPL Financial Holdings Inc.)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower If (1) there shall have occurred any event of which the Corporation has actual knowledge that (a) is a Default or an Event of Default and (b) in respect of which the Corporation shall not have taken reasonable steps to cure, (2) if the Securities are held by the Property Trustee, the Corporation shall be in default with respect to its payment of any obligations under the Capital Securities Guarantee or (3) the Corporation shall have given notice of its election to exercise its right to commence an Extended Interest Payment Period and shall not have rescinded such notice, and such Extended Interest Payment Period or any extension thereof shall have commenced and be continuing, the Corporation will not (i) declare or pay any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchdistributions on, or redeem, retirepurchase, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationmake a liquidation payment with respect to, any shares of the Corporation's capital stock, (ii) make any class payment of its Capital Stock principal of or premium, if any, or interest on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Capital Stock Corporation (including Other Debentures) that rank pari passu with or junior in right of payment to the Securities or (iii) make any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued guarantee payments with respect to any guarantee (other than the Capital Securities Guarantee) by the Corporation of its Capital the debt securities of any Subsidiary of the Corporation (including Other Guarantees) if such guarantee ranks pari passu with or junior in right of payment to the Securities (other than (a) dividends or distributions in shares of, or options, warrants or rights to subscribe for or purchase shares of, Common Stock), (b) any declaration of a dividend in connection with the implementation of a stockholders' rights plan, or set aside the issuance of stock under any funds such plan in the future, or the redemption or repurchase of any such rights pursuant thereto, (c) as a result of a reclassification of the Corporation's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of one class or series of the Corporation's capital stock for another class or series of the Corporation's capital stock, (d) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Corporation's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged and (e) purchases of Common Stock related to the issuance of Common Stock or rights under any of the foregoing purposesCorporation's benefit or compensation plans for its directors, officers or permit the Borrower employees or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”Corporation's dividend reinvestment plans); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Haven Bancorp Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend or ----------------------- distribution (other than dividends or distributions payable solely in the common stock (or equivalent forms of Capital Stock Stock) of the BorrowerPerson making such dividend) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity Restricted Group Member or any warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of any Fox/Liberty Group Member (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stockcollectively, "Restricted ---------- Payments"), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided except that: (a) (i) any Restricted Group Affiliated Member may make Restricted Payments to the Borrower or any Wholly Owned Restricted Group Subsidiary; (b) any Restricted Group Subsidiary that is not a Wholly Owned Restricted Group Subsidiary and any Restricted Group Joint Venture may (or may pay Dividends make Restricted Payments to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any the respective holders of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights so long as any such holder that is a Restricted Group Member receives at least a pro rata share thereof; --- ---- (c) any Restricted Group Member may make Restricted Payments to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material investors in an amount equal to the interests anticipated income tax liability of such investor resulting from the earnings of such Restricted Group Member, provided, that, in the case of the LendersBorrower, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous (i) prior to the Lenders as those contained making of -------- each such distribution, the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a letter from a Responsible Officer of the Borrower setting forth in reasonable detail the Capital Stock redeemed thereby highest federal, state and local tax rates applicable to the members of the Borrower (after giving effect to deductions for such state and local taxes applicable thereto) and (ii) the maximum percentage permitted to be so distributed with respect to any fiscal year of the Borrower shall not exceed the lesser of (A) the percentage representing the maximum aggregate rate described in clause (i) above for such fiscal year and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1B) of such Person42%; (bd) so long as the Borrower may make Restricted Payments to Fox/Liberty for the purpose of funding the payment of interest on the Fox/Liberty Notes or the Additional Fox/Liberty Debt that is required to be paid in cash, provided -------- that after giving effect to the making thereof, no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions including pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital StockSection 6.1 on a pro forma basis) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation shall have --- ----- occurred and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar yearbe continuing; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrowermake Restricted Payments to Fox/Liberty, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: provided that (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only after giving effect to the extent making thereof, no Default or -------- Event of taxes that the Borrower would have Default (including pursuant to pay if it filed a tax return Section 6.1 on a standalone basis for itself pro forma basis) --- ----- shall have occurred and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; be continuing, (ii) on the proceeds of which date such Restricted Payment is made the Senior Notes and the Senior Discount Notes shall in each case be used to pay publicly rated at least BBB- by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services and at least Baa3 by ▇▇▇▇▇'▇ Investors Service, Inc. and (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of iii) the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not of Restricted Payments made pursuant to exceed $3,000,000 this paragraph (e) in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 25% of Combined Excess Cash Flow in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum respect of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;immediately preceding fiscal year.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (FLN Finance Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital common stock or Qualified Stock of the BorrowerBorrower or options or warrants with respect thereto) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock (including Qualified Stock) of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries warrants or options to purchase any such Stock, whether now or otherwise acquire for consideration (hereafter outstanding, or make any other than distribution in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerany Restricted Subsidiary (such declarations, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”payments, setting apart, purchases, redemptions, defeasances, retirements, acquisitions and distributions being herein called "Restricted Payments"); provided , except that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (i) purchase or may pay Dividends exchange then-existing employee stock options for consideration consisting solely of (subject to permit any Parent Entity thereof tosubsection 8.15) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby Borrower and (ii) may purchase Capital Stock (including, without limitation, options to acquire the same) from directors, officers and employees of the Borrower and any its Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely Subsidiaries in connection with stock option plans and employment and severance arrangements so long as, in the Capital Stock case of this clause (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1ii) only, either (A) no Default or Event of Default shall have then occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom or (B) such Person;purchases are made in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice; and (b) so long as after giving effect thereto (or the declaration thereof, in the case of dividends) no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefromshall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends make Restricted Payments with respect to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock at any time on or after June 30, 1999, provided that no Restricted Payment may be made pursuant to this paragraph (b) if, after giving effect thereto (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any the declaration thereof, in the case of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stockdividends)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends Payments made pursuant to this Section 10.6(hparagraph (b), together with the aggregate outstanding amount (without duplication) after of all Acquisitions and other Investments made pursuant to subsection 8.8(m) in excess of $80,000,000 in the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at aggregate or all Investments (other than Acquisitions) made pursuant to subsection 8.8(m) in excess of $30,000,000 in the time such Dividend is paid to exceedaggregate, after giving effect to such Dividend, would exceed 25% of the sum Consolidated Net Income of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause for the period (itaken as one accounting period) iffrom September 30, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, 1997 through the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as last day of the most recently recent fiscal quarter ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default Restricted Payment is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;made.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (Service Merchandise Co Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders dividend on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or otherwise acquire for consideration (hereafter outstanding, or make any other than distribution in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerany Subsidiary, now or hereafter outstanding except (or i) any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that:any Guarantor; (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower may declare and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends dividends with respect to its Capital Stock payable solely in the additional Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Personconstituting Permitted Equity Securities; (biii) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefromshall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire purchase its common stock or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any common stock options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any from present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors officers or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity employees of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, or any Subsidiary upon the death, disability, retirement disability or termination of employment of any such Person officer or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights planemployee, any managementprovided, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, that the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect payments under this clause (iii) subsequent to the date hereof (net of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained proceeds received by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from subsequent to the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) date hereof in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock resales of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, common stock or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of common stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (fso purchased) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence500,000; (iv) the proceeds Borrower may consummate non-cash repurchases of which shall be used capital stock that occur or are deemed to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) occur upon the non-cash exercise of stock options and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b));warrants; and (v) for the proceeds avoidance of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividendsdoubt, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount regularly scheduled semi-annual payments of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be interest in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as respect of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date Convertible Notes Indebtedness and may convert the Convertible Notes Indebtedness into shares of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness Borrower's common stock in accordance with its terms; the terms of the Convertible Notes Indenture Documents (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employeeprovided, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) provision shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends constitute any consent to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(ca Change of Control), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;.

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Sources: Acquisition Loan Agreement (Infocrossing Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the BorrowerHoldings) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of Holdings or the Company or any Parent Entity warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of Holdings, the Company or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)Subsidiary, or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided except that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or Company may pay Dividends cash dividends to permit Holdings to pay any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole taxes or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights expenses required to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained be paid by Holdings in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) ordinary course of such Personbusiness; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower Company may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends cash dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividendsnecessary to enable Holdings to repurchase shares of its Capital Stock or options to purchase such Capital Stock, or to pay dividends on its Capital Stock, in each case in accordance with Section 7.8(f); (ii) to the Borrower and extent necessary to enable Holdings to pay any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments annual management fee expressly permitted by Section 10.5 and 7.12; or (iiiii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends constituting payments required to be made by the Company to Holdings pursuant to the Borrower and Tax Sharing Agreement; provided that Holdings shall pay each obligation in respect of which a dividend is made pursuant to Restricted Subsidiaries this clause (and, in b) no later than five Business Days after the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of date on which such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests)dividend is made; (c) THIS PARAGRAPH INTENTIONALLY OMITTED; (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Default or Event of Default has shall have occurred and is be continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal Holdings may repurchase common stock of Holdings owned by former or existing employees of the Company, provided that, such repurchases are funded entirely with the proceeds of sales of newly issued common stock of Holdings to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus employees; (iie) THIS PARAGRAPH INTENTIONALLY OMITTED; and (f) so long as no Default or Event of Default has shall have occurred and is be continuing or would result therefrom, an Holdings may repurchase shares of its Capital Stock or options to purchase such Capital Stock, and may declare and pay cash dividends on its Capital Stock, provided, that the aggregate amount equal to expended by Holdings in connection therewith shall not exceed, during the Available Amount at term of this Agreement after the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such DividendsAmendment and Restatement Effective Date, the Borrower would be in compliance with a sum of $100,000,000 plus 50% of cumulative Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as Net Income of Holdings (determined for the period from March 31, 1998 through the end of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date recent fiscal quarter of Holdings for which the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that relevant financial information is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(cavailable), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (Essex International Inc /)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the BorrowerPerson making such dividend) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary or any warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or otherwise acquire for consideration (hereafter outstanding, or make any other than distribution in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerany Subsidiary (collectively, now or hereafter outstanding "Restricted Payments"), except that (or a) any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the LendersWholly Owned Subsidiary Guarantor, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefromthe Borrower may pay dividends on any class of its preferred stock so long as such dividends are paid solely in the Borrower's preferred stock of the same class, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus and (iic) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefromcontinuing, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments dividends on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of common stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding to exceed $2,200,000 which amount consists 3,000,000 during its fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and (ii) in any fiscal year thereafter continue to pay dividends on its common stock in accordance with past practice during and before the fiscal year ended September 30, 1999 and in amounts per share not in excess of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;recent such amounts.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Credit Agreement (Imperial Sugar Co /New/)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the Borrowersuch Person) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of such Person or any Parent Entity warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of HCC or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any Subsidiary of its Capital Stock)HCC, or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided except that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as if no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing exists or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase reasonably be expected to be caused thereby (and the Borrower i) Subsidiaries of HCC may declare and pay Dividends dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any HCC and other shareholders of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower HCC may repurchase Capital Stock or redeem shares of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of HCC common stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and from its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause former employees so long as the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(hrepurchases since the Initial Closing Date does not exceed $7,500,000, (iii) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum HCC may make open market repurchases of (i) shares of HCC common stock so long as no Event the aggregate amount of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefromall such repurchases during the Term does not exceed $25,000,000, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal HCC may declare or pay dividends on and make mandatory stock repurchases (pursuant to the Specified Dividend Amount; terms of the applicable certificate of designation) of its preferred stock, if any, and (iv) HCC may declare or pay dividends on shares of HCC common stock, provided that the Borrower may make additional Dividends aggregate amount of such declarations or payments pursuant to this clause (iv) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as above does not exceed 25% of the Consolidated Net Income of HCC for the period (taken as one accounting period) from the beginning of the first fiscal quarter commencing after the Initial Closing Date to the end of HCC's most recently ended Test Period on fiscal quarter for which financial statements have been delivered to the Agent and the Lenders pursuant to subsection 10.1 at or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day time of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (declaration or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;.

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Sources: Guarantee (Hanover Compressor Co)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, (a) if a corporation, declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the BorrowerBorrower or its Subsidiaries) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (except only such dividends, payments or other amounts payable to the Borrower or a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower), and (b) if a partnership, make any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued distribution with respect to the ownership interests therein, or, in either case, any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries Subsidiary (except distributions to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”such declarations, payments, setting apart, purchases, redemptions, defeasance, retirements, acquisitions and distributions being herein called "RESTRICTED PAYMENTS"); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividendsfor: (i) Restricted Payments paid by the proceeds of which will be used Borrower to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns PTI Holdings for the relevant jurisdiction repurchase of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its SubsidiariesJunior Subordinated Note in accordance with Section 6.8; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of such other Restricted Payments as the Borrower or its Subsidiaries may elect to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividendsmake, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause (x) the aggregate amount Total Debt Ratio as of all such Dividends made the date of the most recent quarterly or annual financial statements delivered pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, 5.1 after giving effect to the making of such DividendRestricted Payment is less than 3.50:1, the sum of (iy) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefromfrom the making of such Restricted Payment, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus and (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (iz) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be is in compliance with the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio (calculated on a Consolidated Total Debt basis so as to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio include such Restricted Payments as a fixed charge, except for such Restricted Payments relating to Borrower Stock Purchases) as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (niii) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, Restricted Payments paid by the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders (A) redeem or repurchase the equity holders of such parent Modesto Station Purchase Preferred Stock in an aggregate amount not exceeding the Redemption Value thereof plus accrued and unpaid dividends and (B) pay regularly scheduled and accrued and unpaid dividends on the Modesto Station Purchase Preferred Stock; provided that at the time that such Restricted Payment is made no Preferred Stock Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result from the making of such Restricted Payment. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Borrower shall not permit (i) the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments for Borrower Stock Purchases to exceed $2,200,000 which amount consists 150,000,000 or (ii) the aggregate percentages of 6.0such purchased shares to exceed 10% per annum of the cash contributed to the issued common Capital Stock stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;Borrower.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (Univision Communications Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not pay Declare any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, on any shares of any class of its Capital Stock stock, or the Capital Stock of make any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)payment on account of, or set aside any funds apart assets for any a sinking or other analogous fund for, the purchase, redemption, retirement or other acquisition of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, stock whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Company or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) its Subsidiaries (all of the foregoing “Dividends”being referred to herein as "RESTRICTED PAYMENTS"); provided except that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or Subsidiaries may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole dividends directly or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material indirectly to the interests of Company or to Domestic Subsidiaries which are directly or indirectly wholly-owned by the LendersCompany, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary Foreign Subsidiaries may pay Dividends payable solely in dividends directly or indirectly to Foreign Subsidiaries which are directly or indirectly wholly-owned by the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such PersonCompany; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing occurred or would result therefromoccur after giving effect to such declaration or payment, the Borrower may redeemCompany may, acquirefrom time to time, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or Company stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any from management employees of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire Company or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present Subsidiaries or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of make payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect outstanding stock appreciation rights granted to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity management employees of the Borrower, Company or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise any of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual5,000,000 (the "REPURCHASE LIMIT"), reasonable and customary indemnification claims made PROVIDED that the Repurchase Limit shall be increased by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of any additional Company stock which shall be used is issued to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity management employees of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain Company or any of its Subsidiaries after the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence;Closing Date; and (ivc) the proceeds so long as no Default or Event of which shall be used to pay (Default has occurred or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, would occur after giving effect to such Dividenddeclaration or payment, the sum of Company may, at any time (i) so long as no Event the Leverage Ratio in effect is less than or equal to 2.00:1.00 or (ii) the aggregate principal amount of Default has occurred Loans and Letters of Credit then outstanding is continuing or would result therefromless than $100,000,000, declare and pay cash dividends on the common stock of the Company and repurchase common stock of the Company, PROVIDED, that the aggregate amount paid in respect thereof in any fiscal year of the Company pursuant to this paragraph (c) does not exceed an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as 25% of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any Consolidated Net Income for such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;fiscal year.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (Yankee Candle Co Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Directly or indirectly declare or pay any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders dividend or make any other distributionDistribution on its capital stock or to members, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchthe case may be, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, any shares ownership or other equity interest of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity either Borrower now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stockthereto), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposespurposes (except as otherwise contemplated by this Section 6.02(i)); PROVIDED, or permit HOWEVER, that Distributions may be paid by OLAC to OLAC Holding, OLAC Holding to CogenAmerica and by CogenAmerica to its shareholders upon the Borrower or any satisfaction of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) following conditions: (i) the Borrower may not less than thirty (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to30) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material days prior to the interests proposed date of payment of such Distribution (the "Distribution Payment Date"), each Cogen Entity shall have respectively delivered to the Lender a certificate (the date of such certificate hereinafter referred to as the "Certification Date") signed by the chief financial officer and chief executive officer of such Cogen Entity stating and demonstrating (with appropriate analysis and documentation attached thereto) that (A) at no time during the six (6) month period commencing on the Certification Date (the "Calculation Period") will the sum of the Lendersthen unencumbered (and unreserved) cash of OLAC plus its Projected EBIDA for such Calculation Period be less than the sum of the scheduled principal and interest payments due on the Loan for the next two (2) Interest Payment Dates, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (iiB) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrantsthen continuing, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividendproposed Distribution, no Default or Event of Default would occur or reasonably be anticipated to occur and/or be continuing; and (ii) the sum certifications set forth in the above-referenced certificates remain true and correct as of (i) so long as the Distribution Payment Date. Distributions may be made to CogenAmerica if the certificates contemplated above are delivered and no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing as of the Distribution Payment Date; (j) AMENDMENT, TERMINATION, ETC. OF PROJECT AGREEMENTS. Terminate, cancel or would result therefromsuspend, an amount equal or permit or consent to any termination, cancellation or suspension of, or enter into or consent to or permit the assignment of the rights or obligations of any party to, any of the Project Agreements or Governmental Approvals. Each of the Cogen Entities shall not, directly or indirectly amend, modify, supplement or waive, or permit or consent to the Remaining Dividends Amount at amendment, modification, supplement or waiver of, any of the time such Dividend is paidprovisions of, plus (ii) so long as no Event or give any consent under, any of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; Project Agreements without (i) first submitting to the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with Lender a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day copy of such Test Periodproposed amendment, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (modification, supplement, waiver or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) consent and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder obtaining the express prior written consent of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection the Lender, PROVIDED that no such consent shall be required with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends respect to any Parent Entity so proposed amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent (A) that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount does not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;pertain to

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Sources: Loan Agreement (Cogeneration Corp of America)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not pay Declare any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, on any shares of any class of its Capital Stock stock, or the Capital Stock of make any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)payment on account of, or set aside any funds apart assets for any a sinking or other analogous fund for, the purchase, redemption, retirement or other acquisition of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerstock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Company or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”)its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided except that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person[reserved]; (b) so long as Restricted Subsidiaries may pay dividends directly or indirectly to the Company or to Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiaries and Foreign Subsidiaries may pay dividends directly or indirectly to Foreign Subsidiaries which are directly or indirectly wholly-owned by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary; (c) the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries may pay or make dividends or distributions to any holder of its capital stock in the form of additional shares of capital stock of the same class and type; (d) the Company may effect one or more Qualified Stock Repurchases if (i) no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing occurred or would result therefromoccur after giving effect thereto, (ii) the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and Company shall be in compliance with the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, Required Ratios calculated on a pro-forma basis as of the proceeds last day of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any the fiscal quarter ending immediately preceding the date of such Capital Stock) (Qualified Stock Repurchase for which the relevant financial information has been delivered to the Lenders pursuant to Section 8.1 or 8.2, as applicable, giving effect to allow any such Qualified Stock Repurchase as if it had been made on the first day of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock Measurement Period ending on the last day of such fiscal quarter and (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)iii) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) if at the time of any Parent Entity Qualified Stock Repurchase the Secured Leverage Ratio of the Borrower, Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries equals or exceeds 2.75 to 1.00 (calculated on a pro forma basis as of the Borrower and last day of the Restricted Subsidiaries, with fiscal quarter ending immediately preceding the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment date of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect Qualified Stock Repurchase for which the relevant financial information has been delivered to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions the Lenders pursuant to the terms of any stock option Section 8.1 or stock appreciation rights plan8.2, any managementas applicable, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to such Qualified Stock Repurchase as if it had been made on the two immediately succeeding first day of the Measurement Period ending on the last day of such fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments quarter), the maximum aggregate consideration for all such Qualified Stock Repurchases made pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); clause (d) to from and after the extent constituting Dividends, Effective Date shall not exceed $250,000,000 in the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and aggregate after the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section;Effective Date; and (e) the Borrower Company may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make declare and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (cash dividends or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends cash distributions to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) holders of its Equity Interests and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (may effect one or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividendsmore Qualified Stock Repurchases, provided that any both immediately before such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends payment is made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, and immediately after giving effect to such Dividendthereto, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would Payment Conditions shall be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;satisfied.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Loan Agreement (KLX Inc.)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will (a) If Debt Securities are issued to an Illinois Power Trust or a trustee of such trust in connection with the issuance of Trust Securities by such Illinois Power Trust and (i) there shall have occurred any event that would constitute an Event of Default or (ii) the Company shall be in default with respect to its payment or any obligations under the Preferred Securities Guarantee or Common Securities Guarantee relating to such Trust Securities, then (x) the Company shall not declare or pay any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or dividend on, make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchdistributions with respect to, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationmake a liquidation payment with respect to, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock capital stock, provided, however, the Company may declare and pay a stock dividend where the dividend stock is the same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid, (y) the Company shall not make any payment of interest, principal or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities (including guarantees) issued by the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now Company which rank pari passu with or hereafter outstanding junior to such Debt Securities and (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued z) the Company shall not make guarantee payments with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than pursuant to the Preferred Securities Guarantee). (b) If Debt Securities are issued to an Illinois Power Trust or a trustee of such trust in connection with an Investment permitted the issuance of Trust Securities by Section 10.5) such Illinois Power Trust and the Company shall have given notice of its election to defer payments of interest on such Debt Securities by extending the interest payment period as provided in any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerindenture supplemental hereto and such period, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) extension thereof, shall be continuing, then (i) the Borrower may (Company shall not declare or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof dividend, or make any distributions with respect to) redeem in whole , or in part redeem, purchase or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided capital stock, provided, however, the Company may declare and pay a stock dividend where the dividend stock is the same stock as that any terms and provisions material to on which the interests of the Lendersdividend is being paid, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and Company shall not make any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in payment of interest, principal or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities (including guarantees) issued by the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default Company which rank pari passu with or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable junior to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower Debt Securities and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which Company shall be used not make any guarantee payments with respect to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses foregoing (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof pursuant to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(cPreferred Securities Guarantee), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Indenture (Illinova Corp)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders dividend on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)on account of, or set aside any funds apart assets for any of a sinking or other analogous fund for, the foregoing purposespurchase, redemption, defeasance, retirement or permit other acquisition of, (a) the Borrower Warburg Subordinated Debt or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5b) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the BorrowerParent or the Borrower or any warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any other than, in the case of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower Warburg Subordinated Debt, pay-in-kind interest thereon) either directly or the Capital Stock indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that:that so long no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing (both before and after giving effect to the distribution and repayment contemplated by this proviso): (a) (i) with the consent of the Agent and the Lenders, the Borrower may (declare and pay dividends to the Parent and the Parent may repay up to an aggregate amount of $5,000,000 of the Warburg Subordinated Debt or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; held by Warburg, provided that any terms and provisions material within 45 days thereafter the Permitted Senior Notes shall be issued or Warburg shall return such funds to the interests of Parent in return for Warburg Subordinated Debt and the Lenders, when taken Parent shall provide such funds as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous equity capital to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and Borrower; and (ii) at any time after the Issuance Date, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire for value shares of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of options on such shares held by the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire 's officers or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present employees or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors officers or consultants employees (or their respective Immediate Family Members estates or permitted transfereesbeneficiaries under their estates) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person current or otherwise in accordance with any stock option former officers or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions employees pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or an employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement benefit plan or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all pursuant to which such shares of Capital Stock or options were issued or pursuant to a severance, buy-sale or right of first refusal agreement with such current or former officer or employee; provided that the aggregate cash consideration paid, or distributions or payments made (which may include distributions or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect dividends to any of the Parent for such Capital Stockpurpose) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus pursuant to this clause (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but shall not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last exceed $10,000,000 in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to aggregate. Notwithstanding the extent constituting Dividendspreceding sentence, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends declare and make dividend payments to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable long as Parent uses such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used amounts to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to payA) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses fees required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ Parent's corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) existence and (iiB) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness federal, state and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar local income taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;Parent.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Credit Agreement (Oro Spanish Broadcasting Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. (a) The Borrower will not pay any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders declare or make any other direct or indirect distribution, dividend or other payment to any person on account of any membership or delivery of property or cash to its other equity holders as suchinterest in, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, any shares ownership of any class of its Capital Stock similar interests or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock securities of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect except for distributions made pursuant to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); Sections 6.4 and 9.1 and as provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by this Section 10.1) of such Person;5.31. (b) On any Business Day (other than a Quarterly Payment Date or a Calculation Date) during the Reinvestment Period, the Borrower may make a Permitted Distribution out of the direct cash proceeds of a Borrowing (provided that such cash proceeds shall be immediately applied toward a Permitted Distribution) or in the form of an in-kind distribution of all or any portion of Eligible Investments, Collateral Loans or other assets included in the Collateral then held by the Borrower, in each case so long as (1) each of the Market Value Overcollateralization Test, the Coverage Tests, the Collateral Quality Test and the Equity Distribution Test is satisfied after giving effect to such Permitted Distribution, (2) on the date of such Permitted Distribution, all principal, interest, fees and other amounts due and payable by the Borrower hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall have been paid, (3) no Default or Event of Default Commitment Shortfall has occurred, occurred and is continuing or would result therefromfrom such Permitted Distribution, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire (4) no Default or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefromfrom such Permitted Distribution, (5) the Borrower has given at least three Business Days’ prior written notice (which notice shall include (x) a certification from an Authorized Officer of the Borrower or the Collateral Manager stating that each of the conditions set forth in clauses (1) through (4) above is satisfied, including, if requested by any Lender, detailed calculations supporting such certification and (y) written confirmation from the Collateral Agent that it has recalculated the items set forth in clause (1) above and that there is no discrepancy of +/- .02 between the Collateral Agent’s and the Collateral Manager’s calculations) of the amount equal of such Permitted Distribution to the Remaining Dividends Amount at Administrative Agent and the time such Dividend is paidCollateral Agent, plus and (ii6) so long as no Event the Aggregate Principal Balance of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) all Collateral Loans that are distributed to the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) BDC and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder all Collateral Loans sold to Affiliates of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments the Borrower, collectively, in lieu the 12-month period preceding the proposed date of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay distribution (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any such lesser number of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with months as shall have elapsed since the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(kClosing Date) shall not exceed $5,000,000 20% of the Net Purchased Collateral Loan Balance as of such date of distribution; provided that the Aggregate Principal Balance of (i) all Collateral Loans that were Defaulted Loans distributed to the BDC and (ii) all Collateral Loans that were Defaulted Loans sold to Affiliates of the Borrower, collectively, in the aggregate; (l) 12-month period preceding the Borrower may make payments proposed date of distribution (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such paymentslesser number of months as shall have elapsed since the Closing Date) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to shall not exceed 10% of the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment Net Purchased Collateral Loan Balance as of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the such date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;distribution.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (FS Energy & Power Fund)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will Quiksilver shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, (a) if a corporation, declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable 97 solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the BorrowerQuiksilver or its Subsidiaries) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of Quiksilver or its Subsidiaries or any Parent Entity warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding outstanding, and (b) if a partnership or a limited liability company, make any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued distribution with respect to the ownership interests therein, or, in either case, any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower Quiksilver or any Subsidiary (such declarations, payments, setting apart, purchases, redemptions, defeasance, retirements, acquisitions and distributions being herein called "Restricted Payments") provided, however, that (i) Quiksilver shall be permitted to make payments on account of, and set apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, the purchase, redemption, defeasance, retirement or other acquisition of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerits common stock, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect options to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of purchase its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenderscommon stock, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained not exceeding US$20,000,000 in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) aggregate, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow be caused by any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeemforegoing, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself Quiksilver and its Subsidiaries shall be permitted to make other Restricted Payments so long as (x) after giving pro forma effect thereto, average daily Availability was not less than (x) if the Guarantee Date has not yet occurred, US$25,000,000, or attributable (y) on and after the Guarantee Date, US$40,000,000, for any period of thirty consecutive days during the 12-month period ending on the date on which such Restricted Payment is to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; be made, (iiy) the proceeds of which shall be used Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio exceeds 1.25 to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, 1.00 after giving pro forma effect to such Dividend, Restricted Payment as if such Restricted Payment was paid on the sum first day of the relevant period and (iz) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred be caused thereby and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal the Subsidiaries shall in any case be permitted to pay cash dividends and other distributions, directly or indirectly, to Quiksilver or any Subsidiary, to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal extent paid ratably to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as all stockholders of the most recently ended Test Period on Person paying the applicable dividend or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;contribution.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (Quiksilver Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not pay Declare any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as such, or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, on any shares of any class of its Capital Stock stock, or the Capital Stock of make any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)payment on account of, or set aside any funds apart assets for any a sinking or other analogous fund for, the purchase, redemption, retirement or other acquisition of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrowerstock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Company or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”)its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided except that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person[reserved]; (b) so long as Restricted Subsidiaries may pay dividends directly or indirectly to the Company or to Wholly-Owned Domestic Subsidiaries and Foreign Subsidiaries may pay dividends directly or indirectly to Foreign Subsidiaries which are directly or indirectly wholly-owned by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary; (c) the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries may pay or make dividends or distributions to any holder of its capital stock in the form of additional shares of capital stock of the same class and type; (d) the Company may effect one or more Qualified Stock Repurchases if (i) no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing occurred or would result therefromoccur after giving effect thereto, (ii) the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and Company shall be in compliance with the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, Required Ratios calculated on a pro-forma basis as of the proceeds last day of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any the fiscal quarter ending immediately preceding the date of such Capital Stock) (Qualified Stock Repurchase for which the relevant financial information has been delivered to the Lenders pursuant to Section 8.1 or 8.2, as applicable, giving effect to allow any such Qualified Stock Repurchase as if it had been made on the first day of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock Measurement Period ending on the last day of such fiscal quarter and (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)iii) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) if at the time of any Parent Entity Qualified Stock Repurchase the Secured Leverage Ratio of the Borrower, Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries equals or exceeds 2.75 to 1.00 (calculated on a pro forma basis as of the Borrower and last day of the Restricted Subsidiaries, with fiscal quarter ending immediately preceding the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment date of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect Qualified Stock Repurchase for which the relevant financial information has been delivered to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions the Lenders pursuant to the terms of any stock option Section 8.1 or stock appreciation rights plan8.2, any managementas applicable, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to such Qualified Stock Repurchase as if it had been made on the two immediately succeeding first day of the Measurement Period ending on the last day of such fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments quarter), the maximum aggregate consideration for all such Qualified Stock Repurchases made pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); clause (d) to from and after the extent constituting Dividends, Effective Date shall not exceed $250,000,000 in the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and aggregate after the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section;Effective Date; and (e) the Borrower Company may repurchase Capital declare and pay cash dividends or cash distributions to any holders of its Equity Interests and may effect one or more Qualified Stock of any Parent Entity of Repurchases, provided that both immediately before such payment is made and immediately after giving effect thereto, the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases;Payment Conditions shall be satisfied ; and (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof Company or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and Restricted Subsidiary may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) effect the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;ESG Spin-Off.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Credit Agreement (KLX Inc.)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends dividend (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock common stock of the BorrowerPerson making such dividend) or return any capital to its equity holders on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the BorrowerParent Borrower or any Subsidiary or any warrants or options to purchase any such Capital Stock, whether now or hereafter outstanding (outstanding, or make any other distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Parent Borrower or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) Subsidiary (all of the foregoing “Dividends”collectively, "Restricted Payments"); provided , except that: (a) (i) the Borrower any Subsidiary may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material make Restricted Payments to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby Parent Borrower or any Wholly Owned Subsidiary Guarantor and (ii) any Canadian Subsidiary Guarantor may make Restricted Payments to the Canadian Borrower and or to any Restricted other Canadian Subsidiary Guarantor; 71 66 (b) Permitted Issuances may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Personbe made; (bc) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurredshall have occurred and be continuing, is the Parent Borrower may (i) purchase the Parent Borrower's common stock or common stock options from present or former officers or employees of the Parent Borrower or any Subsidiary upon the death, disability or termination of employment of such officer or employee, provided, that the aggregate amount of payments under this clause (i) during the term of this Agreement shall not exceed $15,000,000 net of any proceeds received by the Parent Borrower in connection with resales of any common stock or common stock options so purchased and (ii) pay management fees to Hick▇ ▇▇▇e and its Affiliates expressly permitted by Section 7.10; and (d) so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, the Parent Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and pay dividends to the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares holders of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeemcommon stock, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of that (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time any such Dividend dividend is paid made, either (x) the Consolidated Senior Leverage Ratio as at the end of the most recent period of four consecutive fiscal quarters for which the relevant financial information is available is less than or equal to exceed2.00 to 1.0, determined on a pro forma basis after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of such dividend and any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, financing thereof as if such Dividends had events occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; period or (jy) the Parent Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu has a long-term senior secured debt rating of fractional shares in connection with any Dividendat least BBB- from Standard & Poor's Ratings Services and at least Baa3 from Mood▇'▇ ▇▇▇estors Service, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) Inc and (ii) honor the aggregate amount of dividends made pursuant to this paragraph (d) shall not, at any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in time, exceed an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant 50% of cumulative Consolidated Net Income during the period (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Memberstaken as a single accounting period) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of fiscal quarter commencing on January 1, 1998 through the initial public offering of most recent full fiscal quarter for which the Capital Stock of Holdings;relevant financial information is available.

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Sources: Credit Agreement (International Home Foods Inc)

Limitation on Dividends. The Borrower will not Declare or pay any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return any capital to its equity holders dividend on, or make any other distribution, payment or delivery of property or cash to its equity holders as suchon account of, or redeemset apart assets for a sinking or other analogous fund for, retirethe purchase, purchase redemption, defeasance, retirement or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for considerationother acquisition of, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock capital stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries warrants or options to purchase any such stock, whether now or otherwise acquire for consideration (hereafter outstanding, or make any other than distribution in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash or property or in obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, except for (a)(i) payment by the Capital Stock Borrower of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect amounts then owing to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity management personnel of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of their respective employment contracts or under any stock option or stock appreciation rights employee benefit plan, (ii)mandatory purchases by the Borrower of its common stock from management personnel pursuant to the terms of their respective employment agreements or any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive benefit plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained iii)additional repurchases by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year of its common stock from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before giving effect to any carry forward) may be carried forward to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments permitted by Section 10.5 and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiary, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrantsmanagement personnel, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (other officers or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership employees of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, Subsidiary in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 35,000,000 in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable the aggregate and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds purchase, redemption or retirement of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds shares of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity capital stock of the Borrower or options to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation purchase capital stock of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; exercise of outstanding stock options, (hb) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall not cause the aggregate amount of all such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at the time such Dividend is paid to exceed, after giving effect to such Dividend, the sum of (i) so long as if no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (or would result therefromoccur and be continuing after giving effect thereto) when any such dividend is declared by the Board of Directors of the Borrower or such payment is made on the account of the purchase of capital stock of the Borrower, an amount equal cash dividends on the Borrower's capital stock or such payments made on the account of the purchase of capital stock of the Borrower not to exceed, in the Remaining Dividends Amount at aggregate, in any fiscal quarter (the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii"Payment Quarter") an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; greater of (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower would be in compliance with a Consolidated Total Debt to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as of the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date of the making of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) $25,000,000 and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (kA) 50% (100% if the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to payshall have attained Investment Grade Status) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such payment, such payment would have complied with the other provisions of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock Consolidated Net Income of the Borrower from and its consolidated Subsidiaries for the net period of four consecutive fiscal quarters ended immediately prior to the Payment Quarter (such period of four quarters being the "Calculation Period" in respect of such Payment Quarter), less (B) the cash proceeds amount of all (I) dividends paid and redemptions made by the Borrower during such Calculation Period in respect of capital stock and (II) payments made on the account of the initial public offering purchase of capital stock of the Capital Stock Borrower during such Calculation Period, but only to the extent permitted by the terms of Holdings;the outstanding Subordinated Debt, and (c) dividends or distributions in the form of additional shares of such capital stock or in options, warrants or other rights to purchase capital stock.

Appears in 1 contract

Sources: Interim Term Loan Agreement (Lear Corp /De/)

Limitation on Dividends. PATRONAGE REFUNDS AN& OTHER CASH DISTRIBUTIONS: The Borrower Mortgagor will not not, in any Calendar Year, without the approval in writing of the Mortgagee, declare or pay any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock of the Borrower) or return pay or determine to pay any patronage refunds, or retire any patronage capital to its equity holders or make any other distributioncash distributions (such dividends, payment or delivery of property or cash refunds, retirement and other distributions being hereinafter collectively called "distributions"), to its equity holders as suchmembers, stockholders or redeem, retire, purchase or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, for consideration, any shares of any class of its Capital Stock or the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock), or set aside any funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or permit the Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration (other than in connection with an Investment permitted by Section 10.5) any shares of any class of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower, now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of the Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower or the Capital Stock of the Borrower) (all of the foregoing “Dividends”); provided that: (a) (i) the Borrower may (or may pay Dividends to permit any Parent Entity thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Capital Stock for another class of Capital Stock or rights to acquire its Capital Stock or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new shares of its Capital Stock; provided that any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Capital Stock are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Capital Stock redeemed thereby and (ii) the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may pay Dividends payable solely in the Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Capital Stock not otherwise permitted by Section 10.1) of such Person; (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase (and the Borrower may declare and pay Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof, the proceeds of which are used to so redeem, acquire, retire or repurchase) shares of its Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) (or to allow any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities to so redeem, retire, acquire or repurchase their Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of its Capital Stock)) held by any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries, with the proceeds of Dividends from, the Borrower, upon the death, disability, retirement or termination of employment of any such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option or stock appreciation or similar rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreements or equity holders’ agreement; provided that, except with respect to non-discretionary repurchases, acquisitions, retirements or redemptions pursuant to the terms of any stock option or stock appreciation rights plan, any management, director and/or employee stock ownership or incentive plan, stock subscription plan, employment termination agreement or any other employment agreement or equity holders’ agreement, the aggregate amount of all cash paid in respect of all such shares of Capital Stock (or any options or warrants or stock appreciation or similar rights issued with respect to any of such Capital Stock) so redeemed, acquired, retired or repurchased in any calendar year does not exceed the sum of (i) $10,000,000 plus (ii) all Net Cash Proceeds obtained by Holdings or the Borrower during such calendar year from the sale of such Capital Stock to any present or former employees, directors, officers, managers, members of management, independent contractors or consultants (or their respective Immediate Family Members or permitted transferees) in connection with any permitted compensation and incentive arrangements plus (iii) all net cash proceeds obtained from any key-man life insurance policies received during such calendar year; notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the unused amount of payments in respect of this Section 10.6(b)(i) (before consumers if after giving effect to any carry forward) such distribution the total Equity of the Mortgagor will not equal or exceed 40% of its total assets and other debits; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that in any event the Mortgagor may be carried forward make distributions to the two immediately succeeding fiscal years (but not any other) and utilized to make payments pursuant to this Section 10.6(b) (any amount so carried forward shall be deemed to be used last in the subsequent fiscal year); (i) estates of deceased patrons to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Investments required or permitted by Section 10.5 its articles of incorporation and (ii) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Dividends to the Borrower and to Restricted Subsidiaries (bylaws, and, if such distributions to such estates do not exceed 25% of the patronage capital and margins received by the Mortgagor in the case of a Dividend by a non-wholly owned Restricted Subsidiarynext preceding year, to the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Capital Stock of make such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests); (d) to the extent constituting Dividends, the Borrower and any Restricted Subsidiary may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 10.3 and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect the transactions permitted by such section; (e) the Borrower may repurchase Capital Stock of any Parent Entity of the Borrower, or the Borrower, as applicable, upon exercise of stock options or warrants to the extent such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise price of such options or warrants, and the Borrower may pay Dividends to a Parent Entity thereof as and when necessary to enable such Parent Entity to effect such repurchases; (f) [Reserved]; (g) the Borrower may make and pay Dividends: (i) the proceeds of which will be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) the tax liability to each relevant jurisdiction in respect of consolidated, combined, unitary or affiliated returns for the relevant jurisdiction of such Parent Entity or the Borrower, but only to the extent of taxes that the Borrower would have to pay if it filed a tax return on a standalone basis for itself and its Subsidiaries or attributable to such Parent Entity’s ownership of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries; (ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) its operating expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business and other corporate overhead costs and expenses (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar expenses provided by third parties), which are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $3,000,000 additional distributions in any fiscal year plus any actual, reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors or officers of any Parent Entity of the Borrower; (iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) franchise taxes and other fees, taxes and expenses required to maintain any of the Borrower’s Parent Entities’ corporate existence; (iv) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to any Parent Entity thereof) to make Investments contemplated by Section 10.5(c) and Dividends contemplated by Section 10.6(b)); (v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay (or to make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity of the Borrower to pay) fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering, refinancing, issuance, incurrence, Disposition or acquisition or Investment transaction permitted by this Agreement; (vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers, employees and consultants of any Parent Entity thereof to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; (vii) the proceeds of which shall be distributed in connection with the Transactions; (h) in addition to the foregoing Dividends, the Borrower may make additional Dividends, provided that any such Dividend shall as will not cause the aggregate amount total distributions in such year to exceed 25% of all the patronage capital and margins received in such Dividends made pursuant to this Section 10.6(h) after next preceding year, and PROVIDED, FURTHER, HOWEVER, that in no event will the Fourth Amendment Effective Date measured at Mortgagor make any distributions if there is unpaid when due any installment of principal of or interest on the time such Dividend Notes, if the Mortgagor is paid to exceedotherwise in default hereunder or if, after giving effect to any such Dividenddistribution, the sum of (i) so long as no Event of Default has occurred Mortgagor's total current and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Remaining Dividends Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, an amount equal to the Available Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iii) an amount equal to the Available Equity Amount at the time such Dividend is paid, plus (iv) an amount equal to the Specified Dividend Amount; (i) the Borrower may make additional Dividends pursuant to this clause (i) if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Dividends, the Borrower accrued assets would be in compliance with less than its total current and accrued liabilities. For the purpose of this section a Consolidated Total Debt "cash distribution" shall be deemed to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio as include any general cancellation or abatement of charges far electric energy or services furnished by the most recently ended Test Period on or prior to date Mortgagor, but not the repayment of a membership fee upon termination of a membership and not the making rebate of any such Dividends, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, as if such Dividends had occurred on an abatement of costs incurred by the first day of such Test Period, that is no greater than 2.75:1.00; (j) the Borrower may (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to) (i) pay cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any Dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition (or similar Investment) and (ii) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms; (k) the Borrower may pay (or may make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to pay) Dividends in an amount equal to withholding or similar taxes payable or expected to be payable by any present or former employee, director, manager or consultant (or its Affiliates, or any of their respective estates or Immediate Family Members) and any repurchases of Capital Stock in consideration of such payments including deemed repurchases in connection with the exercise of stock options; provided in each case that payments made under this Section 10.6(k) shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate; (l) the Borrower may make payments (or make Dividends to allow any Parent Entity to make such payments) described in Sections 9.9(c), (e), (h), (i), (j), (l) and (p) (subject to the conditions set out therein); (m) the payment of dividends and distributions within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration of such paymentMortgagor, such payment would have complied with the other provisions as a reduction of this Section 10.6; and (n) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the Borrower may make Dividends to any Parent Entity so that such Parent Entity may make Dividends to its equity holders or the equity holders of such parent in an aggregate amount not exceeding $2,200,000 which amount consists of 6.0% per annum of the cash contributed to the common Capital Stock of the Borrower from the net cash proceeds of the initial public offering of the Capital Stock of Holdings;wholesale power cost previously incurred.

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Sources: Restated Mortgage and Security Agreement (Cap Rock Energy Corp)